Soo, all you custom commander backers...

• All you custom commander backers, what would it take for me to get on your list of top 5 friends who play PA? (Idk how to remove the bullet point from this first part)
• I could get down on my knees and beg (Unlimited)
• Ask nicely (Unlimited)
• Shower you with praise for the next 5 years (5/5 Remaining)
• Play a few games with you (10/10 Remaining)
• Hopefully make you laugh with a few of these (Unlimited)
• Assist in a bank robbery (2/2 Remaining)
• Be your slave for the next 20 years (1/1 Remaining)
• Scratch your back with a really long back-scratcher (5/5 Remaining)
• Remove someone you don't like (2/2 Remaining)
• Write a program for you in a few years once I learn how to program (2/2 Remaining)
• DESTROY FACEBOOK FOR BUYING OCULUS (Unlimited)
• Tell a your mom joke (20/20 Remaining)
• Remember how to use MSPaint so I can combine two Pokemon for you like in my icon (5/5 Remaining)
• Start a business selling illegal drugs (1/1 Remaining)
• Tip a cow (5/5 Remaining)
• Show you a picture of one of my awesome and adorable dogs (Unlimited)
• Eat a cake in your honor (5/5 Remaining)
• Give you pro tips on how to be meh at PA (5/5 Remaining)
• You may pick one of these or create your own! YOU WILL GIVE ME A CUSTOM COMMANDER YOU WILL GIVE ME A CUSTOM COMMANDER YOU WILL GIVE ME A CUSTOM COMMANDER YOU WILL GIVE ME A CUSTOM COMMANDER YOU WILL GIVE ME A CUSTOM COMMANDER please... Look deeply into this image and think about it:
• 
• Thank you for your time.
• Edit: By the way, I know the coms aren't out, I'm just asking for a promise.

lol

If I had a custom commander I'd give it too you. But sadly I do not... +1 for enjoying the post.
Make sure to post a picture of the commander if you get one!

Error 404 - Custom Commander key not found

Damnit! It must be in there somewhere... keep searching!

I think I left it on the other moon... *moon smashing into a planet* Oh, ummmm, never-mind

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I imagine you could still get one if you shell out the extra $...

Actually, no, you can't. The highest tier right now is Cosmic Limited (Which I plan on getting), and it comes with:
COSMIC LIMITED EDITION

• Game Key

• Theta Commander PRE-ORDER EXCLUSIVE!*
• Soundtrack Download
• Desktop Wallpaper

• Gamma Access
• Digital Artbook
• Delta Commander
• 'Commander' Accreditation
• Planetary Naming
• PA Founding Commander Badge
• Commemorative Limited Edition Game Box
• Commander Miniatures
• Printed Hardcopy of Artbook
• PA T-Shirt
• PA Asteroid Pin & PA Asteroid Belt Flair items for SMNC

As you can see, no Custom Commander. Kickstarter exclusive only. Thus, my wish to get one of the 5 codes they get to give the commander to their friends.

I see!

Well, There is one way you can get a Custom Commander in PA without being a backer....

Pay someone to make ya one Modding/Modelling a new Commander once the game is outta the Gamma stage, and theres a proper importer/Exporter for 3D Studio Max, wont be too hard at all :3

But, then other people won't be able to see it! And modding something like that just doesn't seem... right.

Why wouldnt other people be able to see it?

How could they? They won't have the client side textures and I doubt the servers would send them.

Actually, I (and probably the other modders too) was thinking of making a sort of global custom commander mod once the right hooks and tools have been released. There would be a central community-run server that would store the commands you've made or payed someone else to make. Then whenever you play with one of those commanders your opponents would see the com too as long as they had the mod.

This sort thing worked for a minecraft mod . If you donated you a special cape that all other users of the mod could see. Worked as it was a big mod (optifine for thoughs that are wondering). Works best if you piggy back off another popular mod.

I'm not quite sure how that would work? Wouldn't you have to reskin a commander that is already in the game? Or is what commander you pick not checked by the servers?

Yes Optifine did that, but then Minecraft servers aren't run by Mojang and something like that is pretty much entirely client side, but maybe this is too and I just don't know what I'm talking about (Which is quite likely).

Well I assume the models for the moded custom commands will be hosted on an other server then fed to clients when it recognises a commander with the custom moded model then display it.

Well I'd basically set it up like this:

1. User selects two commanders, one default stock one in the stock armory and one through the mod. The mod then sends that custom commander setting and the player's username to the mod's server.
2. When a player using the mod joins a game the mod checks the mod's server to see if anyone playing in that game has a custom commander set and downloads it into a temp folder.
3. The downloaded commanders are then used for the players who selected them and anyone without the mod just sees the stock commander they selected since the official Uber server is none the wiser.

(This will probably end up changing but that's just what seems like the best way to me for now.)