@Community . This conversation revealed that notification (message of the day thing) should have been made to the target servers as well to let them know their peaceful world is coming to an end.
@Danny923 . OK so the servers are getting trimmed and some servers are being removed. See the list here. FC has sent notice of this out here in the forums and various media and social media outlets. You got lucky in that your server was found to be still valid but your server is also the target server for 3087, a server that is scheduled for deletion. FC is moving these characters to your server. The ToS rules have been a point of contention but someone from 3087 probably has scouted your server and found your structures. Here is the critical aspects of the ToS. If your structures do any of these, FC will remove all of your structures.
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- Blocking of content in the game, such as dungeons, obelisks, resources and other areas of the game.
- Abuse of the claim system where blocks are placed for no other purpose than to prevent other players’ access to resources and building spots.
- Massive constructions or over-use of memory intensive items leading to loss of performance both on client and server-side."