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Pillow hates exclusivity so I'm going to forum pvp over this;
By having exclusive items, you put value on it, and it gives a sense of personal touch for people to have stuff they like. The moment you make it essentially a clone - well, not as interesting. Nothing wrong with a little pride for helping out.
Now. I'm inclined to reward people for contributing to the mod with heavy handed tasks like animating, modelling, or doing a tonne of written work, or heavy system design.
I wouldn't want the provided effects to be too obnoxious like the arch beam effect, and obviously these rewards are only given out after the work is accepted. And I wouldn't reward people for lazy jobs or easy 5 minute ones.