Personally, I'd appreciate a more focused plot. As it is, most of us are off doing our own things, and that isn't very good at drawing and keeping interest. If you ask me, I'd say give both sides a clear goal to work for, spoilers (which I can guarantee anyone can reasonably guess, The Leader's posts have been laying it on quite thick) be damned. If the alternative is stagnation and eventual thread-death, I say go for it.