I've been chasing this fucker for some time now. It appears to only occur in very odd circumstances. I've run a couple of test games on my laptop since the beta and the resources reset happened only intermittently. Bastard bug. I got hold of a few PHP tools and low and behold, I found the fucker and it all made sense.

Byrn told me that End Game hadn't appeared to kick in, nor had the auto game end occurred. Ah, but the end game HAD kicked in. As soon as someone had a pawn, everyone who didn't have pawns got their resources reset. End game kicking in shortly after it started.

So, a fat bug but now squashed. The next version of Chom will also have a few other improvements, including a few points Pete rightly pointed out about locking resources and the auction. I need to figure out the best way to handle that.

I am working on it, here and there.