Hi all, so I just wanted to touch base again here since it's been a couple of weeks and I've been pondering a bit more on the subject.
First and foremost, thank you very much for the great responses! I've been reading them all and really taking some of them to heart. I'm really glad that we still have folks here who are so vested in seeing us continue and stay relevant!
Second of all, regarding Plan Z, the primary reason we closed those forums is to give each of those projects the chance that they need to host their own communities. While I don't mind people talking about the successor projects here, what I wanted to avoid was a situation where each of their respective community leaders had to maintain both a presence here and on their own forums to stay in touch with their communities, or worse, where someone either has topics forked both there and here or, worst of all, where someone mistakes the Titan Network as being the official community site for one of the successor projects. I've actually gotten a few PMs and emails from people commenting on successor projects, obviously thinking that I was directly responsible for one or more of them. I just mostly wanted to clear that up. Plus, it really wasn't fair to them, having to compete with the Titan Network in engaging their players and fans.
Third of all, while I haven't ruled out any of the original thoughts, I have come up with an interesting side project that I'd like to explore a bit further. Nothing may come of it, or some day it might be all the rage, I don't know. But it's an idea that I've been knocking around in my noggin' for a while now, and for the past couple of weeks, I've been trying to get it from "I have vague, nebulous notions about something that might be cool" to "here's a concrete description of what I had in mind, including all of the rules and mechanics." I'm not at the point where I want to talk about it publicly yet, because it might turn into a really dumb idea, or I might get so slammed with work or something that I can't follow up in a timely manner, but I just mainly want everyone to not think I'm sitting around on my thumbs.
Anyway, that's about it for the update. By all means, keep posting and I'll keep reading, and I'll try to let everyone know if my little side project idea comes to the point of fruition where it's worth mentioning--that is, where I think it might actually have an honest chance of existing someday.