What does it take to put something new in the game!

[krazii]

Devs/Sam (since you mentioned I should post this),

Can you give us an idea of what it takes to implement something in the game, say a new weapon. How many man hours? How long?, What is the general proces, etc.

I ask because I, like many, are starving for something new in SL, perhaps some new pink weapons and shields or something along those lines and when you mentioned that there'd be nothing new until after DL (and likelly at least a month after that), it kinda threw water on my (and others) hopes for something in the game. To be frank, we feel abandoned. So I would like to understand what it takes to implement something like this. On the surface it probably seems easier then it is, but a better understand would at least clarify things for us.

Thanks,