Why not a new payed addon?

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by mazex

OK, what is the salary of a good russian developer? 3.000 dollars a month? Lets say that 1000 of us put in 50 dollars each and send them directly to Oleg. Thats about 16 months of development. Then let four devs work for 4 months and do some of the stuff the community desires as a "free" 4.10 patch (assuming that 4.09 is almost ready). Win-win for everyone. We get 4.10 and UBI/Maddox games can release a patch to all customers for free (we are not greedy so let the rest of the community have the patch too even if they do not pay). Add a list of the contributors at the end of the readme or something so the contributors get some cred.

Who starts a paypal account, and more interesting - who gathers the requirements for the project?

If it just was all that easy.

Don't you think those programmers you wanna pay should know what they're doing? Or do you just want them to sit in Olegs office and have to dig through the code, the patches and history to find out where to start?
And do you really think it is all up to Oleg and his team?
And do you really expect they WANT to do another patch, just because some people want that?