Any thoughts to actively pursue some additional developers?

Perhaps open source the project and instead focus on approving patches and overall design direction?

there's more dev in the pipeline don't worry =/

Perhaps more transparency in development would encourage some growth and morale.

Please understand I am not trying to knock what you do or am I trying to complain about lack of development. Just seems that with more development power this game could evolve better, faster.

Perhaps leading to expansion of the community and brand recognition. Which would likely lead to more financial support and ad hits.

While I hate to compare the development team to Mehul, remember that Mehul started out making changes and being active in the community. Over time the changes decreased and the activity completely stopped. The game retracted into obscurity.

Again, I am not trying to be a fluff or demand constant development to a free game that developers maintain and host on their own dime in their own time. I just haven't seen much useful in the way of development and without some pretty fundamental changes to the presentation, I believe that the game will not evolve and continue to stagnate. Without knocking your effort, I just don't believe that a solo developer is enough to grow this game where I believe it should aim.(Not to say that my view of where it should go is correct, but I believe no matter the endpoint that major new development will be required.)

This turned into a novel.
tl:dr version is: Thanks for all the work you do, but please consider transparency and perhaps expanding development power.

I don't play in any alliance and would be willing to help but just like many other likely good or better candidates my time is kind of limited. Not limited enough though to not make my tl:dr version tl:dr.