I think one of the biggest issues I have with this game is this issue right here. No communication from Devs about server outages. Also, being this game is research time based and ends on a given date (not a win condition only), an outage of a day or two can kill someone's chances of winning. Example: All research time stops when a server is down, but end date doesn't scale to accommodate outages. As it stood before this outage, I had about 15-17 days to kill 15 HWs (once my PK is built). Now, having lost precious research time and RO harvesting, I'll unlikely have enough time to fulfill the win condition.