Post demo 2 I waited for 3 weeks for any plot advancement to take place. When nothing happened I decided to do what I could do. I do everything based on the Crimson Echoes plot thread but I take creative licensing to make it feasible (whether physically possible to do or physically possible for someone coding this in his free time to do). I have about a month and half of being able to give a reasonible amount of time to this project before reality strikes again and it becomes something that I can do every once in awhile. In that month and a half I want to finish the remaining of the main story, whether it be my version or something someone tells me to do. Then I'll do like a side quest every once in awhile.
No offense to the plot guys but I think a Chrono Brake (that did make me laugh), would only result in these forums going to a stand still before I come back and give it some updates. The project has a ridiculous amount of momentum behind it right now on the hacking side through Chono 99 and Justin's graphics, Chickenlumps AI and awesome tricks, Vargose music importing, Nightmare's and Exodus Fixing and making maps, JLukas fixing what we screw up and my coding. For a project like this momentum is something that you can't lose......we saw what happened when we lost it last time, it took about 10 updates in my Yay thread before we got rolling again.
I want people to be happy, if everyone wants me to stop I'll stop but there's 10 pages of people that want this to continue and hopefully the final release will have any more. This summer is our best chance to make that a reality.
I realize Cedric is unlikely as hell but we have a great excuse to send Marle to 1 AD, a pretty cool tower that can be utilized if we send her there and some plot ideas in the plot thread that want her there. Let's take this as a freebie and go with it.
Thats my input, I hope I didn't step on any toes if I did I apologize. I realize I came in half way through this whole ordeal but it's something that appealed to me. I wanted to see it reach it's finality and I still plan to keep that goal. If I see it dying I'll hoist the whole damn thing on my shoulder's and keep it going.
In my mind there's not left much, the three reptite timelines, trip to get the chrono break and Gaspar, a failed attempt at using the chrono break and the final dungeon. The rest can be done through side quests.
--jp