Hello Sckoarn and thank you for your words!
Regarding lack of weapons:
This will make you able to test design projects for primitive weapons! looking for sturdy weapon materials, designing a weapon, then making a production team. And testing how balanced (or unbalanced) that situation is.
Regarding second evacuations:
The plan for now is to allow a second evacuation on the same planet. This is what we call testing an "Optimized Evacuation". Testers will know when we feel ready for second evacuations.
We have many things to consider here including some sense of achievement we would like to keep for "games after testing", but we also do have to test the situation of an optimized run.