it has been done for other projects, and might work here to get some further tools released by 1C so we as a community can keep expanding and improving CoD
as a ballpark, if 100 people would contribute 500$ each (50.000 $ total), thats a decent chunk of money that might fund 2 programmers for a year or so (em based on russian salaries being much lower then in the west). or it could fund 4 programers for 6 months
if 1C provides them with the office area to work in, and the basic pc's they were using before, we might be able to raise enough money for their salaries for 6 months and get a couple of near finished elements to be completed (SDK, maybe control of vehicles, improved "visibility bubble" to reduce popup, etc)
it wouldnt be focused on "finishing the sim" (unless one of us wins the lotto
), but we might get a couple of elements finished that luthiers team already were very close to completing.
just a thought