Perhaps it's just me but I would have thought the longevity of the community and the basis for the most excitement is the sandbox possibilities what with Data spending the effort to make it modifiable in the first place.
I would love to see more vanilla content on the basis of Promster's artwork but if modding and creating units with more flexible base classes was the sole priority then this would be good enough for me.
I think the ability of the modding community to generate ideas based on the engine is one of the things that would hook people to this game, and if the tools and the engine were tweaked as a priority to allow greater freedom with modding then the perceived lack of Vanilla content which seems to be a gripe of a number of B23 fans would be moot.
What I mean is you have many capable modders to create content for the game, when I hit the inevitable impasse of time I can devote to modding and the difficulty bringing some of my own ideas to life within that time I was able to keep interest in the game based purely on the strength of the mods on offer and the ability to tweak them to my liking.
In conclusion I suggest release B25 with some sexy Complete Vanilla factions or support your modders efforts by having the dev log updated by your devs.
Hope this helps
