OK, what is the salary of a good russian developer? 3.000 dollars a month? Lets say that 1000 of us put in 50 dollars each and send them directly to Oleg. Thats about 16 months of development. Then let four devs work for 4 months and do some of the stuff the community desires as a "free" 4.10 patch (assuming that 4.09 is almost ready). Win-win for everyone. We get 4.10 and UBI/Maddox games can release a patch to all customers for free (we are not greedy so let the rest of the community have the patch too even if they do not pay). Add a list of the contributors at the end of the readme or something so the contributors get some cred.
Who starts a paypal account, and more interesting - who gathers the requirements for the project?