Why no Save game Feature

[Taqwus]

If you're not exactly the first person to request a feature that's already been heavily discussed, has been lacking in three major iterations of the game, has almost certainly been noticed by the developers as not being there and having been requested, and almost certainly wouldn't require a major redesign considering that the saved games are already essentially compatible with user-done backup/restore -- it seems reasonable to infer that

* the devs have reasons for not doing it other than that it's not being requested, because it has been
* points and counter-points have already been rehashed ad infinitum -- it's not like this is a novel area of game development
* further discussion may be extremely uninteresting for this reason, especially if requesters choose to ignore the Search forums and repost as if they were the first ones with this concept