1. Colonies were never meant to be profitable, their sole purpose is to provide some fun for well established lvl50 players with fully upgraded islands and nothing else to do in game. Hoarding isn`t fun after some time, I know many can relate with me on that.
2. If you dislike the whole PvP/PvE idea don`t use it, its optional, and no need to complain how bad it is when you won`t use it. Rewards are bad, and troops cost a fortune to train, if you are not rich enough ignore it for now and carry on with iotp and outlaws, plenty of granite there still.
3. "New buildings take 2 licences, and where am I supposed to find free space to place them?" Well everybody has 2 building licences spare, and if you don`t just knock down a farm or pwp cutter/forester, you can live with 1k pinewood or wheat less per day(and if you can`t well then you aren`t a PvP material I`m afraid).
4. Valour points are nice way to show player`s dedication to a game they love, and I`m hoping to see a ranking system introduced in game in near future. No more bragging about who has more coins /granite in star
5. Bugs are a big problem and I`m not happy about that either, that should have been fixed long ago especially with so many bug reports on test server, but lets hope BB solves that problem soon and make colonies truly playable.
There I was just trying to focus on things I like rather than think of things that annoy me in game. Still feeling angry about PvP? Try a mars bar, that always helped me in the past