Ouch

[SaltyScrappy]

I died on iron man run doing the spy background quest when stealth broke. Instant game over.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

iron man is by definition, unforgiving. It sucks that often times death in an iron man run, are not the result of doing anything "wrong" on the part of the player, but due to lag, a skip in frame rates, a dropped connection, your ISP going out, your mouse btty chunking, etc etc

[Razorblade]

That's what happens when Ironman modes are patched in later rather than actually being part of a game's development.

Solasta is designed pretty terribly for a permadeath game. The inability to run from battles, poorly leveled random encounters, instant game-overs from stealth and escort quests, poorly implemented resurrection rules, random difficulty spikes; Solasta has them all, and they're all terrible for a game where you only have one life.