How many developers are there for the game? Also if a player wanted to offer their services (free of course) to help out with writing some code, how would they go about contacting the right person to do so?

There are four people developing this game. The best way to offer help, right now, is to apply to the Vendetta Online PCC (Player Contribution Corps). Aside from being a subscriber, it requires signing away the intellectual property rights to anything you create, and a general understanding that we allow you access to some code and tools which could be used to harm the game or the Test Server, but that we expect you to be trustworthy in their use and respectful of feedback from us and the PCC community. Good use of the English language is also required (hence the essay). We generally ask that people have played for awhile (a month or two) before applying, to make sure they understand the game, backstory and other areas.

The PCC, for the moment, is mostly limited to writing new missions and creating new features in the client user interface code (the recent "System Notes" addition, under the Nav interface, was created by the PCC).

If you apply, give us a week or so to respond, we don't check it every day. Thanks for the interest :).