I'll need to follow up with the team to see about finding answers for these questions. I've set your post aside so I can follow up on it after the stream today.
These are very valid concerns. I will work with the new CM for Defiance and Defiance 2050, Tidbitz, and the dev team to make sure we can be as transparent as possible. I know you've all been waiting...
In this specific case we're looking for questions from the community that we can answer as part of our livestream. It's not that no other questions will ever receive a response.
We're investigating the current connectivity issues hitting several of our games at the moment. We hope to have more info to share shortly, but please bear with us while we dig...
We're going to have a Defiance 2050 livestream from our Austin, TX office on Friday. Please get your questions in for the team and we'll do our best to answer what we can.