I look forward to seeing you "cash in" on that, Sir G!
I'm really optimistic about this new system.
I think we were at the point where we had so many awesome Allies contributing so much that we wanted to give you all the chance to design, but if we let you do it all at once, it'd be completely overwhelming. So we cooked up this "merit-based system" to not only encourage so more playtesting/photo taking to help the group as a whole but to help us choose a fair way to let more Allies initiate designs.