Yeah, that's my suggestion, make the game playable. I understand this is a decent update but the servers in this game have been absolutely dog water for awhile now.
As far as I know from reading other post ED "servers" are actually run on client side (that means player side) and the only thing that is close to server is machine working as a manager of those clients. It might be something like this Distributed Computing.
Colonization is in Beta stage meaning it has issues and I'm sure developers are aware of them so just be patient. I'm also one of those players affected by this beta stage but if game is not playable for me (like it was 2x during last weekend), I'm simply not playing and waiting for it to be fixed.