Most of the work being done on the game are happening in the wiki, which is coming along quite nice, I think. I still have a lot more to add to it, but the simple act of writing it all down and linking everything together has really been helping me cement how everything will flow and just exactly what kind of strategy game I want to make. Also, I seem to be the type of person that is most creative when writing. I can't even imagine doing all this in XML from scratch.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm still working on this and if you're actually curious enough, you can see the progress in the wiki.