I am in total agreement.
This new building mistake is a game breaker for me. This game was sold as;
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NO CHARACTER CLASS. NO PREDETERMINED ROLE.
The role you play in the shared universe only depends on your actions and your choices. Be a space pirate. A galactic trader. A cargo hauler. An interstellar industrialist. And everything in-between."
Alpha is different game from the one they gave us in Beta, And not one indicator that anything was up.
They took all choice of independent - solo play away. Don't know why they would do that. One thing for sure is that it would certainly be an issue with many, many players and they won't even have the decency to own up to it and have a conversation about it,
Maybe they are afraid to admit that they aren't capable to deliver all they promised us that a single shard universe would provide, That is why they sneaked this feature in to the Beta. They need money and if they told us this between closing Alpha and the initialization of Beta and the large infusion of cash as result. They would have lost all that cash. Sorta like Star Citizen selling of ships to finance their game that doesn't work.
I for one am highly disappointed in their childish tactics,