I think Lone Wolf will be putting the Companions up for sale rather than as free updates, at a guess, and from the sounds of it we're looking at the kind of programming that most of us doing data files pretty much never really deal with (meaning these changes are not just .user file things but may need some direct modification of the setting files themselves.) In either case I'm not sure adding any extra hands to the task will really help too much. Sometimes it's easier for a single person to keep track of the specifics on a project like this than to try to coordinate a team to work it.
Now if LoneWolf did make Caped a full-time employee not only could he get stuff like this done a bit quicker for us, but maybe then they could more aggressively approach some of the third-party folks out there for releasing official data files for other non-Pinnacle Savage Worlds settings. (See CC, maybe we can help you out here.
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