Post: #8

That's all between the buyer and the supplier. If they agree on further support and modification, then so be it. It all boils down to the rankings and whether the buyer trusts the scripter. There is no perfect system. People get ripped off by legitimate businesses all the time. Smart businesses do their best to make things right and keep a good reputation. Dumb businesses cheat their customers and quickly go bankrupt. Again, none of this really matters. This isn't something that sphere needs to do. It's up to the community and individual scripters/shard owners to find and use a system like odesk to post their scripting projects and then link to them here on the forums. If it works out well, it will catch on and become the norm. If not, then it was worth a try and we go back to the way things were. Sphere literally has to do nothing, someone just has to find a 3rd party system they like and be the first one to post. The success or failure of that project will determine whether or not this idea will continue and become popular.

As for the suggestion that all scripts be made public, I suggest anyone who commissions a script should go in to it assuming the script could end up public. That said, custom and unique scripted systems is one major differentiator between shards. I think it's perfectly reasonable for a buyer and scripter to agree to keep a script private. It's just important to realize there is no system of enforcing this agreement.