I would assume that anyone submitting a kitbash would do it for the love of the hobby plus the execise of doing it = more of a I have done it and here it is! kinda thing.
I really would want to see the Mayhem MegaBashes that DR999 submitted after making his huge clixs based table. From what I understand there is all the bashes in Clix, grided and ungrided version. It is this type of megabash that will add so much flavor to Mayhem.
As for the kB not being the bread and butter - I would love to know the stats on kb verse Main sets. Kitbashes are not the cheapest things around for products that have been remastered to by an unpaid workforce. I'm not promoting the fact that KBers should get something fiscal out of it (see above) but at the same time its (the bashes) has turned into a nice cash cow - a subset of products that really don't need a huge time or effort to be applied by the company.
What am I getting at - Kitbashes are great, I don't think that anyone submitting them should get money out of them - staff or otherwise (tell me that staff don't get cash for their submits
). The point of them is to have a safe format that people can exchange their visions of a certain set to the general public. If they get widely accepted then GREAT and kudos to that person - they have just enriched the cardstock world just that bit more.
As for mega basher - do they have instrustions, instructions that have bee custom build for that subset? If so then that set should be $15 (standard set cost) and the split of cash should be the same as what a normal set is by the designer and the company. Why? Becasue the new set is a whole unit unto itself. Also this will keep the standard alive - if a megabash is not upto par - it should never leave the cutting room floor or it should be broken down into elements that can be shifted into Kitbashes. By not paying for someone time and effort on a MegaBash - a Mega bash that is choked full of goodness that goes above and beyond the original - so me smacks of theft. Yes you are paying for the hosting and download of it but at the same time we are not file sharing it. The person in question should get the same cut as a full set. Is this not how Mini-Chunk came into being?
Lord Abaddon of Wormwood
Might be good to take a look at the way megabashes are marketed, and see how that can be improved.
