I think your outrage is a serious alarm bell for the developers, and that what you are expressing is on the minds of many other players. What you are asking for is reasonable, fair and in my opinion, doable. I'm usually not this patient and understanding, but my intuitive feeling is that the NextColony team have good intentions but they are failing to communicate, as you rightly point out. My hope is that this is just a short down moment for the team, and that they will learn from this experience and come back stronger and wiser.