Well sorry if you don't like our contributions, but really I think all we've done is try to bring you down to earth (even if the journey has been a little bumpy) and offer useful feedback. If you don't like criticism then I'd suggest you don't post somewhere like here, where most people have a tendency to offer their honest opinions and speak their minds.
There's no malicious intent in what we've said, I mean if you take the time to look around the forum a lot of threads like this follow a pattern of;
Person 1: I've just had a brilliant idea, it's 'x'
Person 2: Actually that's a pretty good idea, wish I'd come up with it. How do you plan on doing it?
Person 3: This might help 'link to a thread proposing a similar idea'
Person 4: Cool. Keep us posted with developments.
Person 1: Well my plan was this: yadda yadda, blah blah blah.
Persons 2, 3 and 4: Sounds like you've thought it out and have a decent, workable plan. Are you going to be following 'x person's' suggestions?
Person 5: Interesting idea, but how you plan on getting round 'y'?
Person 1: Oh I hadn't thought about that. Any suggestions?
Person 6: Well when I had that problem during my project 'z' I got round by doing 'a'
Person 5: I've seen 'b' being used by other people and heard of 'a' working, but I personally always use 'c'
Person 1: Oh, I've got a bit of 'product e' (used in 'a') lying around but wouldn't have thought about using it
for 'a'
and so on and so forth. Usually if someone has a good idea, that people can picture working and 'having legs' we will fully encourage them and offer support, and if their idea doesn't then we'll try and help them tinker with it and offer them advice as to how the can improve it.
But, getting back to the point, in all honesty, none of the information you've given makes me want to contribute, or even try and get others to contribute since it seems you've made almost every mistake you possibly could make and more importantly, there's nothing that makes me think 'yes this project needs this HUGE amount of money to work'. The only feasible reason I can think of as to why you'd need that much is if you were planning on using professionals (i.e. models, designers and make up artists etc.) throughout every stage of the project, but when you've said you've done a lot of the work so far yourself it makes me wonder why you'd want to get professionals in, and you could easily do the entire project for a fraction of the proposed cost if you got involved in the community and asked people to get involved.
But the problem is if you are going to be using professionals no one in the community is going to be interested in the finished project simply because of the skepticism we've all learned to approach anything labeled 'Steampunk' that comes from outside the community, thereby cutting off a huge chunck (and tbh probably the better part) of your potential customers. And to top all off even if you get enough people interested to fund it, and get the money you say you need, and manage to put something out there, it's going to be a massive flop and there's no way you'll be able to get your money back (simply because the potential market is too small and the fact no one would be willing to pay the amount you'd have to charge for it in order to make the project profitable).
