The game needs checks and balances, or at least, a better creature recovery system that doesn't basically cause you to restart if your base is wiped out.
I had three of my bases wiped out by a player nearly twice my level; I'm basically restarting.
So I'm gonna quit; I've invested too much time into a game with flawed mechanics; I'm going to turn all my nodes off too; I know that that will piss off the farmers, but I consider it a protest. So there :p