So, I will not be resuming this.
That being said, I'm currently trying to decide if I should do a reboot of this (with some minor changes), or another RP-based NES.
Either way, I can guarantee that the next version will be more streamlined - no more update processes, but, instead, just a back-and-forth RP process (should make things smoother, less time consuming, and do away with the complaints about consistency in time progression, since it would be largely based on player responses).