I don't really consider our "mods" mods. They're more like add-ons. ModDB would have problems accepting "LATEST REINCARNATION OF SNIPER RIFLE. NOW FULLY AUTOMATIC. HURR HURR HURR." Control's CS:S mod is a mod. It will change the basic gameplay of Cortex Command. Our mods do not, they just add stuff on. In other words, most mods here don't deserve a ModDB article.
And since you appear to be new, the future of Cortex Command is retail. Data really hasn't taken much input from any of us as far as new features know, but if he does, it's usually painfully obvious what needs to be fixed.
This community has also gone to the pits. I've been around for about a year, and watched it go from really awesome to crap. You ask for intelligent and you'll get a bunch of "B"-tards yelling "hurr hurr hurr MISPELLED WORDS..." *glares at pieman*.
In any case, welcome to our disheveled forums, and I don't believe your argument is right... Cortex Command is just currently not a big enough game to have a significant following of people. Wait until it goes retail, then we'll be able to promote something really unique.

Trust me, man- I'm not new to the site at all, I lurked for about a year before joining.

Also, everyone keeps saying that Data's future is in retail, but they forget that selling retail copies costs an immense amount of money. (Think packaging, marketing, etc.) Data would have to get a loan or snatch investors first, a retail product is still years away.

Lolwut.

Why would Data need to do boxed copies of anything?

THE GAME INSTALLER IS <20 MB.

You could pack it on **** floppies, and anyone can download it in minutes.

You're assuming retail means ON STORE SHELVES.

It doesn't.

Also I lol'd because absolutely everyone says they lurked for a year before joining.

Which is so incredibly unlikely it's humorous.

Why, nay, HOW, could you possibly lurk on a forum for 365 days without ever wanting to offer your opinion on anything?

It's not human nature, and there's no way you wouldn't have had a question you wanted to ask in that time either.

Trust me, man- I'm not new to the site at all, I lurked for about a year before joining.

Also, everyone keeps saying that Data's future is in retail, but they forget that selling retail copies costs an immense amount of money. (Think packaging, marketing, etc.) Data would have to get a loan or snatch investors first, a retail product is still years away.

If Data makes a good enough product (everything in this game is high quality already, it's just boring in the current test state), the product will promote itself. Take Cave Story. EVERYONE has heard of Cave Story, and if they haven't, they pick it up on Pixel's website and become a loyal fan, doing the same for others. He won't need money to make money. As far as I know, Data has not paid anyone for the development of Cortex Command.

I hardly see how getting the community involved will get this game's hype up. It was cool the first time I booted Cortex Command and heard the rocking electric guitar intro, threw gold into rockets and saw my brain blow up but the game gets stagnate quickly after that. Now my two arguments may seem to contradict each other. One says the community can promote a game to an almost cult following while the other says that our community can't do the same thing, but as I said before. Retail will be able to speak for itself once Data gets the bugs worked out and gives us a storyline, online multiplayer, and scripting (which might be coming sooner than we think).

Also, I agree with Grif: One does not simply lurk on this forum for years, considering you had to create an account to download mods previously (the reason why I signed up). "I was a leecher- just there for the downloads. I didn't care what people were saying, and I didn't care about modding." What were you downloading without a user account for a period of about 6 months? "I didn't have any questions beause I was focused more on Company of Heroes and Dawn of War." And you're just NOW trying to get our community to get off its duffs and promote this game? What changed your mind? What made Cortex Command SO important within the last few builds I could have seen our community about 6 months ago doing this, but with this forum full of children, getting all of us to collaborate on ANYTHING would be next to impossible. The typical response would be "NO U." And I also fail to how lurking gives you an understanding of what's going on with Cortex Command. You said it yourself: "And yeah, everyone claims to have lurked for a long time before posting. That's because they want to appear as vets, like they were around for build 13 or something." So why does that make you any more intelligible on the game than me, a fairly active member (who has been around since build 13, and before it)? You say "Trust me, man- I'm not new to the site at all, I lurked for about a year before joining." as though it means some sort of superiority of knowledge over the other users. Contradictions, contradictions. One final thought: Like Grif, I am a "child" (age 15). It's not that people on this forum are children, it's that those who choose to act like children are the most prominent users during this period. This forum used to be a concentration of fairly intelligence people who could type sentences without using leetspeak. Now, the average user has the intelligence of a badger. It's saddening. I've probably lost most of the userbase with my long post. It's not that the intelligent have disappeared, they've just been covered up by the wave of idiocy that has swept over the forum (some have left because of it though, and I don't blame them). I really hope it blows over soon, as their attention spans should be left of this boring game by now.

To sum it up:
- The game shouldn't need promotion. It's impressive, just not complete. The overused "Defense" mode is the only game mode we have, and it gets boring quickly. As many veteran members note: Retail will be the most important thing to happen to CC and the game should be able to advertise itself. With scripting, online play (hopefully) and a storyline, along with all the other awesome features, Data should be able to buy dinner for at least a couple of weeks.
- Contradictions in your posts make you seem to be a bit of a liar.
- The sudden interest in the promotion of Cortex Command is a bit odd too, especially this early in the development phase. People do promote games early, but see the first bullet to understand why it would be insignificant to do it now.
- The vast majority of the community doesn't care about promoting the game, or this topic would be quite the hot post, not the bubbling pit of arguments going back and forth. Plus, the vast majority are retards.
- Failing to see what this has to do with mod making now.

I'm done with this post. Say what you will, but if all goes well, Data shouldn't need our help to get his game on its feet. [/opinion]