I play the game for weeks. I upgrade my ship and upgrade my weapons, and the next time I start the game it acts as if I have just started the game. Ship is basic crap, weapons are basic crap, no money. Everything I have played and worked for is gone!!!!!!!! What a bunch of garbage!

Now that would make anyone furious. I wonder what happened.

thats odd, the games should be autosaving every time you dock at any base,
so the most you should theorretically be losng is anything you did on that base

have you played on different computers? that is about the only normal way i can see of something like what you described happening

You did not install any games into Windows program folders, did you? That is a bad idea.