I have not upgraded to Ace. Again, because it had been something like 5 years on the same project by the time I was even aware Ace existed.
I honestly hate to even consider the amount of hours I've spent on Google browsing user-created sprites, monsters, animations, and scripts. People are really generous with creating content for anyone to use.
I do get really annoyed at some of the limitations of the engine, though. There are simply not enough special effects you can add to equipment and spells to do what I want to do, most of the time. I've found a couple scripts that expand the possibilities, but it still feels limiting.
But then, I enjoy creating that stuff far too much. I have something like 200 weapons existing in my game right now and it's only about half done.
I've been working on it for something 7 years now, it's kind of a disaster. It was the same project I learned how to use VX with, so it gets progressively better the farther into the game it goes and the thought of remaking the early parts is just enough to make me never want to touch it again.
My total inability to script or art holds me back significantly, though.
At the risk of sounding like a parody of myself, I'm not even sure what makes me happy anymore.
I spent the last few days tinkering with my RPG Maker game, and it seemed fun at the time, but tonight I don't even want to look at it, for whatever reason.
I'm sorry, I haven't been on Trisphee much the past few days. I spent all of yesterday at the hospital getting testing done for my upcoming surgery, and now I've got that hanging over my head next Monday.