I guess this begs the question, is this current sorry state of events intentional? It certainly sends a rather bleak signal to those who have played the game for a long time, we have for the most part come to accept this incredibly high level of incompetence and therefore pretty much any new screw up is written off as 'well that's the gree way'.
From insider comments it seems this is a rudderless ship foundering on the rocks with less employees trying to put out increasing numbers of fires, so the probability of of happy resolution to this problem seems highly unlikely.
At this point I've put my crew into maintenence mode, I don't rebuild my bases because I do not care to waste my time constantly monitoring them. I don't participate in most events because they are tedious and boring and the same stuff over and over with the same outcome.
Yeah I know quit is the comment from the gree forum shills but after spending so much time building these players up it is tough to just completely walk away.... So for now I think the smart play is to do as little as possible in the hope that someone at gree HQ walks the hell up.