Some people have been PMing me about the progress of the game so I thought I'd post about it here. For the time being progress has stopped. When I thought about everything that I would need to do to get this game to an "acceptable" level of play it was just too much. I'm in the process of reevaluating my online life and how I approach things and I'm honestly not sure where this project falls into things.
I do have a desire to run a game but I need to find a way to utilize Ares that does not involve needing to write a ton of code for the game and the web portal. Obsidian Reverie has inspired me with their approach of attaching character sheets to the web profiles and I'm experimenting on a private superhero game with that approach now. I won't lie, so far from my standpoint, it's been amazing. Instead of being buried in code that may, one day, help people create their character I'm able to just help people build their character and get to RPing. It's been very refreshing. And the players I've been trying it out with seem to really enjoy it as well.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure where that leaves this project(or any other at the moment for that matter). The only thing I can say for sure is that this project, in this incarnation, is no longer moving forward.