How about a quick note from the devs that they are alive?

[Mysticpuma]

This thread is being deleted and becoming another of the threads that start and stop, don't get answered and then someone else comes along, thinks they are starting a new topic...and we repeat the whole process again.

Del Amitri summed it up nicely:

"Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before"