> Why would you want to create a manual when we clearly failed in current form? Because it could be not-failed at Time F but failed at Time X, and somewhere be

> Why would you want to create a manual when we clearly failed in current form? Because it could be not-failed at Time F but failed at Time X, and somewhere between the two a bad decision was made. If you know what the previous civ did, you can perhaps learn from their mistakes and bootstrap yourself until the bad branch point and take a different path at that point.