Have you considered adding a option for players who had to reset or lost their save files to skip ahead to certain acts?
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I considered it... and then remembered that CK is a story-based game with thousands of choices and associated variables and that attempting to maintain any sort of "skip ahead" feature on a weekly update schedule would completely destroy both the game, the amount of content I can create, and my sanity :P