Hi Ziroc!
Hacking DC: The official line has always been, "why hack when you can write or change the actual code?"
We only have one coder at a time it seems, so by necessity, we can only work on items that will get us to 1.0 right now (the same would be true if all of our coders were active right now). If we had 10 or 12 coders it would be a different story.
Do I mean to dissuade people from hacking? Nope. The way that I introduced myself to CocoaSpud was by asking for help in decoding the saved character files.
An option to think about is something like Tarlanon did (which is a saved character editor), a stand-alone program that can be used with DC. In fact if it's good - in the sense that it's Open Source - we might be able to host it SourceForge for you.
After DC reaches 1.0, one of the first tasks will be to make DC look to the text files and not to the hardcode for races, classes, skills, attributes, etc. This had always been a goal of CocoaSpud's and he had mentioned that the only reason he didn't do it now was the time it would take away from getting to 1.0. If only he would come back to us as a coder...
