Next to last entry. This is a short entry and is not very profound, but hopefully it will encourage you to do something.
Expand Your Horizons
I love creating customs. It is such a fun and creative outlet. I know it is the same for all customs creators. Because of our love of creating we may sometimes forget that there is more to HS than customs creation. We have a whole community here; a community we can contribute to in more ways than one.
I am sure that each of us have talents or skills that display themselves outside of designing units. I encourage you to explore those skills and see how you can utilize them to contribute to the HS community at large and not just the customs community.
It can be something such as creating a useful utility thread (i.e.
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1Mmirg
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Index of Excellent Scaper Threads), creating a great resource (i.e.
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IshMEL
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lefton4ya
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Hextreme Heroscape Sreadsheet ), or even something totally off the wall that barely has anything to do with ‘scape but can be fun and/or useful (i.e.
Heroscape Themed Fonts). Ask yourself what you wish the site had and endeavor, if at all possible, to be the one to do it (that is what lead me to start the Copy and Paste Abilities Index).
The idea is, don’t limit yourself to just designing customs when you can probably contribute in so many other ways. I understand that creating and critiquing customs can be time consuming and not leave much time for other heroscapers.com endeavors. If you have an idea for something you think the community would find useful, fun, or entertaining it is totally ok to put designing aside for a period in order to work on some other 'scape related project. Your customs will be waiting for you when you get back. You might even dust off those languishing units with some fresh insight when you return to them.
Remember, this is about being an impactful customs creator, not simply a customs creator. When I think back on those who I would consider impactful customs creators I can see their fingerprints all over the site, not just in our little neck of the woods.
You are creative- that is why you design customs. Expand that creativity and get out there and show people that this community still has much more to offer to all scapers!