I started this great game yesterday! Managed to get the first two magic fish so far, Im just building up some cash to get some more research done.

My daughter started at the same time. She was fortunate enough to get two Greenfin Spotanus in the batch of eggs you start with right at the beginning, so was doing really well! She had level two feeding, environment and advertising and was nearly ready to start researching her level threes.

She asked me to watch her fish today while she was at school - feed them and stuff. I have no idea what I was thinking of, but I managed to delete her player with that silly "delete" button right next to the player name

Why isn't there a confirmation screen before a player is deleted? I'm gonna be in sooooooo much trouble now If you never see me post here again, you know what's happened! Check under the patio for my bones.

Yikes! Your daughter probably won't let you babysit her fish again!

Fish Tycoon was our first Windows release, and we learned a lot from it. All of our later games have a confirmation dialog for the delete player button, and a backup copy of the savegame files. I know that doesn't really help you out of your situation, but it might reassure you about our other games.

If you'd like to know how to back up the games yourself (to prevent disaster in the future), follow this procedure:

Pause all player's games (since it may be awhile before those files are used, and you don't want the passage of time to affect them). Exit Fish Tycoon. Using Windows Explorer (or My Computer), go to the directory where Fish Tycoon is installed and look for files named FishSaveGame*.pts (where ** is a number). Those are your savegame files and are numbered 1-5 (corresponding to the player slots). There are also other files with the 'pts' extension, which contain various settings.

Copy those files to a safe place (for example, another folder, a CD or other external media), and you will be able to restore your games if that happens again.