All right, how big is James' group right now? Because if memory serves correctly, James has a small army of characters following him, which includes at least:
James*, Zachary*, Bailey, Alfred*, Gustave*, Shakila*, Kiara, Aisha*, Landon*, Masters, Crota, Reynolds, Hans, Werner, Stern, Aydin, Cobalt Squad, Sharon*, Wayne, Williams, Roux*
and probably more that I've forgot. I've put stars next to the only characters that are currently active characters.
One of the reasons I bring this up is because the focus of the RP seems to have shifted to the characters in Dragonstorm. Mirumoto, Starfall, MrDrake, and myself have been primarily playing our Dragonstorm characters, and half of the people in James' team haven't spoken a line since 2010.
I think one of the reasons that James' team has slipped out of focus is that there are so many characters it takes a week to get them to do anything. If we trim the crop, we could tighten up the force and get their story moving faster.
Hell, even if we split the team in half (active characters, non-active characters,) and send the team of non-active characters to destroy a Dragonstorm base off-camera. Then they're still technically "doing something", but the active characters are unburdened by a thousand posts of "these people also do what the others are doing etc."