I'm getting tired of being locked in this maneuver with no recourse. If someone has you under siege then they attack, there's nothing you can do to save any ships on the planet. Resources you can just spend or pop your shield on. But the ships, AFAIK, have no choice but to be destroyed. Usually when a game ends up with one player dominating another in this way, the game designers will introduce some sort of balancing force. I've not heard of any such mechanism coming for nextcolony.
One defense you do have for your ships is to send them somewhere else before the siege starts. However, if the siege is timed to start before your ships return from their missions (as has been the case every time I've been besieged), then you're stuck.
Apparently these ships have no communications capabilities, so you can't tell them not to return from their mission. If this were real life, I would just have them reroute to some other friendly planet.
However, this ship with no comm unit must have some amazing stealth tech. It can somehow slip through a siege line without being detected, and return to your planet to await destruction in the coming attack.
This is all implausible and demoralizing. There is the break siege option, but in my situation, I would need quite a fleet to break a siege of 80 ships. I've almost got my Corvette skill up to level 17, so in a few days I can maybe start building Corvettes. I wonder how long it will take me to build 80 of them? Quite a long time if I keep getting besieged.
Overall I've enjoyed my time playing nextcolony. It's an interesting concept with a lot of potential and a really solid build team. It's just not that much fun when you're getting bullied. And games, first and foremost, are supposed to be fun. I'm going to keep playing at least until they start with the rewards, and see what that turns into. If playing nextcolony earns you steem, that changes the equation. It still wouldn't be fun, but it would be different.
But that's not a game, that's an income stream. It just depends what the dev team wants this thing to be.