Real Question

[Kura]

Time is the main issue. There is a reason Bannerlord has been in development for so long. Afaik they had to rebuild their engine. NordInvasion could of course be build on an existing engine, but those come with expensive licenses. Even if we have an engine we would have to do animations, models, textures, game code, web connections all from scratch. I also highly doubt that all players would migrate to the standalone version as it would require another purchase.

Your point is fair about the development but within "I also highly doubt that all players would migrate to the standalone version as it would require another purchase." a Standalone would of course bring in a population of it's own as well as your loyal players.

Also to your first point on development, Kickstarter could easily fund a dedicated team for this project alone while keeping whatever team dedicated to your current mod.
The sheer amount of Game Alphas produced within Kickstarter is immense and i see no reason why this shouldn't atleast be tried as you could also use funds (If you don't hit a goal for Standalone development) to then fund the development of the Current NI or Bannerlord?

All-in-All i was quite curious to see the mindset about this idea.