Unfortunately, this is not possible to compensate as such things may happen during Early Access.
Font issue is a known problem but there is no quick fix possible, it will be fixed later.
Captain, no server issues were spotted on US server on weekends. Most likely there were packet loss issues between you and the server. Please once it happens again run connection test report via Steam Launcher.
Perhaps it was caused by some sort of forum db rollback during yesterday maintenance. Unfortunately most likely they are gone forever but that maintenance was important as it fixed some bugs with forum.
In case there are no server issues (we make announcments about it asap), most likely this is a local connection issue which is not compenstated. Send F11, I'll contact you later if any bug spotted.
Forts don't attack NPC due to player abuse and forst not present at all are different things, the bug that does not load forts into a mission is in work.
oak logs does not produced by NPC.
Also, price of goods produced by NPC (trading resources and rare wood) vary from maintenance to maintenance within certain range.
if there is an item with sell price 5 and buy price 10 that is produced by NPC in this port, you have to set price equal or above 10. If you set for example 7, it won't be sold to you, is that the case?
contract price above minimal buy price from NPC? please send F11 in that case. But I guess you are talking about sell price (we managed to find a bug that allowed this and fixed it in 10.4).
Nym, there is a cap as already mentioned, it consider bonus from trim as well together with modules.
Captains, today was a bug fixing patch, patch notes will be provided later with another update.