Just take a look at the Trac Timeline (
http://trac2.assembla.com/swgemu/timeline) and the speed at which we are committing changes to the OR codebase. Things are moving forward quickly.
That being said, we aren't going to take time out to code non-essential hotfixes like putting a superficial limit on cities per planet. When we code it right and commit it to OR, it will make it to NOVA. Properly.