I haven't posted for sometime now, mainly due to the fact CF1.7 kept crashing after every time it updated with content.dll errors.
In other words, CF1.7 got removed from the computer.
I, like everyone else have waited for CF1.8, and I'll wait for as long as it takes Op to finish / release it, and hopefully, it won't crash as it's, to me, a totally new mod, it's been tested and retested.
Sure, it's frustrating when you hear it's going to be released soon, but it never has been. I haven't a clue what's involved, I leave it to people like OP, I may not agree with his attitude at times, but hell, it's his work, and I respect that fact.
So as far as I'm concerned, until it's released, I'll play whatever mod I want, especially as I paid for the Vanilla CD, and bear in mind without the original, no mods would ever have been released.