I have a suggestion that would stimulate the kind of mod activity that the developers and fans would like to see.

Maya is required to create 3D models, with textures and shader files, for TvT. Inexpensive copies of Maya are difficult to find - this will impede mod development for TvT. Would it be possible to develop an editor that would import 3D models from free programs such as Gmax? The textures, shader files, and attributes could then be added in the editor, and the final model could then be exported into the TvT game system.