Re-use old world and colony locations after game over

[RemingtonRyder]

I like the idea of starting a new game at a date many years after the demise of an old colony and coming across the ruins of that colony.

In other words, instead of generating ruins for that particular map, take the existing structures and ruin them a bit.

[Limdood]

I like it, but you'd have to program randomly destroying bits and pieces of all the structures.  Additionally, even a somewhat destroyed base could be a MASSIVE head start....think double-walled granite-and-plasteel mountain stronghold.

[Dr. Z]

You could forbid these locations for colonization, or create hazards that prevent you from using the map again. Funnily, back when world generation was a new thing, the planets where actually created separate from colonies so you could start on the same world again after a game over. I always wondered why that was changed.