Team members have asked me whether our expenditures could be covered. We edit meshes, textures, and make new items. This is why we often have to buy items we would not normally use. For example, we needed Black Greaves to present the Black Gothic Knight nicely. Matt and Blackbow had to buy several helmets for the Luxurious Aketon set, and so on. We are going to buy much more (giving Highland Claymore and Two Handed Sword a better-quality texture next, the list is long).
I thought about telling the team to make a list of expenditures and asking the devs for a refund, but since the recent overdue raffle-drawings haven't been made and the prizes were not given away, I suppose they are busy with other things at the moment. Looking for help elsewhere would save us the time to make these lists and monitor their correctness (private consumption vs. expenditures for modeling and presentation hard to distinguish; incentives for opportunistic behavior).
Bobby, once you have served all your friends, if there are any items left, I would like to have one, sell it on the market and split the gold among our active team members. Everyone's share would be higher than their expected expenditures and there would be less motivation to edit items without double-checking their quality with in-game screenshots. If you decide to support us with an item, I will post screenshots of the transaction to every team member in this thread for accountability.
For reference, this is what we are working on:
http://forum.melee.org/suggestions-corner/alex%27s-daruvian%27s-and-rico%27s-item-workshop-give-us-feedback-and-join-us!/msg1061204/#msg1061204
