Consider a case where the Motogame is magically playable on a phone in its current technical state plus cosmetic changes and available in app stores for free. What use is it popularizing / marketing a product which doesn't work as advertised? No people will be making money in it when competing with bot farms. Do you then see how low on the priority list cosmetic changes should be?

I don't think going on and on about making changes to core functionality really gets anywhere if one doesn't understand the technical implications of such changes. Don't forget this is still the only (half) working embodiment of the full proof of play concept. Many people know the  vast potential in there but nobody has come up with a better game model so far. As long as bots dominate I would argue it a waste of resources if main development efforts were aimed at cosmetic features. We are still far from the day when porting to other platforms and marketing to casual and/or hardcore gamers would make any sense. Perhaps it will never come. Perhaps a breakthrough is just around the corner, waiting to pop into someone's head. Who knows.

I don't mean to discourage your efforts. Regarding your graphics skills - this is an open source project and anyone is free to commit their contributions of any kind, graphical modifications included, any time. What keeps you from just doing the suggested graphical revamp already, which you are offering for a while now? I recall HMC already explained the format in which graphics are stored. Or is that not all you need to know? Just ask. Cheers.

By the way I'm just lurking really, waiting for the right moment to jump in with some BTC.