A THREAD FOR NEWCOMERS!

hyppocampus, GoedenDag is right. There are no clear definitions of when to reset or not. It's more of a gut feeling.

Actually, there are some definitions, but it comes with experience and understanding of the pattern. Every map has a certain average, workable layout (abstractly, but still). With a lot of gameplay on a map, you can determine how much a particular run is better or worse than the average. Although, again, each case is individual, and in a bad scenario, you can still get to the second place and find a lot of resources and 6 artifacts.