Bridge Over Troubled Water

It's too early to say if the project has resurrected, but for sure not thinking about it during these days really helped.
I was stuck in a trap, since the best looking results needed tons of computational power, as world machine is a really hungry beast of software. All this time the cloud services were under my nose and I didn't consider them.
I'm currently looking at azure and aws, the processing power they give you is simply incredible, and it's exactly what I need.
So, back to the roots I'd say. No more super-complicated map makers, I go back to the original tile-based concept.