The badges don't seem that hard to get for MMO-haters badge-obsessed people... if I am not mistaken, all you gotta do is click on "Colony -> structures" then build structures (preferably the ones which make you get resources faster --- that should take only a few minutes of your time btw). Then you leave the game for a few days, go back, build more structures. Leave the game for a few days again, recruit some army for the first badge, build more structures. Repeat until you get badges.
I don't like how the numbers keep shaking. If the game consists basically in a small screen with numbers I might very well want to look the screen with numbers comfortably, and not with those mad evil shaking numbers to seek me in my knightmares. Or whatever.