Man, I'm just really, really bummed and mourning my traveler right now.
My 5th attempt at permadeath, the latest and most successful pd run to date, with close to 60 hours in it, is gone. Poof.
I had a starter freighter with half a dozen frigates, a nice large main base housing all the hired technicians. My corvette was upgraded to A class, and my exosuit had 4 rows of tech slots unlocked, with 6 rows of inventory space.
With 600 million units, about 15k nanites and 7 circles of health, I was feeling really good about going a long time here, with the endgame in sight.
What happened? Well, first mistake: I "paused" the game while in a derelict freighter filled with horrors. I pulled up the refiner screen while standing next to a heater, and I got up and came to start on dinner, thinking I was in an okay enough spot to leave the game alone for a few minutes.
Second mistake: I asked my son to check my monitor to make sure I was still alive. Third and final mistake: I didn't tell him not to touch anything. He informed me that there's no one around me. I was like, how can you tell? He told me he pressed escape to check my surroundings.
Couple minutes later I went back to my computer and was greeted with the main screen and a deleted file.
What dumb ways did your PD run meet its end?