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Adjustments to release schedule + small changes to treasure trove releases and commission pricing changes
🕑 Added 2026-01-05 21:46:06 +0000 UTCHello all, this is just a small announcement regarding a handful of things;
A TL;DR: One less look per month because of higher workload/hours/effort put into each release, commissions are now 80 dollars for a base EA release/90 through the tier and swashbuckler+ members now get TT content 3 days earlier.
1) First of all, as I get better and better and try to do higher quality releases, it takes me more time to finish these.
While I am much faster at the regular process I spend a lot of time min-maxing everything to get the best possible result, Tali and Briar for example took me over 100 hours and close to those 100 hours respectively and in most cases I've just been working on VAM 24/7 nonstop when I'm not sleeping or working, as soon as I finished one release I immediately went very hard on the next one.
While I really appreciate all the support and it really helped me learn, I don't believe it's sustainable and I absolutely do not want to burn myself out, leave you guys without content for long periods of time or fail to meet previously discussed release dates so now that I'm more confident on timeframes and quality I will be adjusting to this new workload and release 1-2 less looks per month, previously I aimed to release 6-7, sometimes even 8 looks per month and that's just not doable with the amount of time and effort I'm putting into them nowadays, so from now on I will aim to release 5 looks per month, 6 if I'm able to.
This means I will also be doing some small re-scheduling to previously queued looks that swashbucklers+ can see in the plank discord channel, commissions will not be affected by this;
1a) Paige will be moved for a future look, date not settled, as the source model I wanted to work with has not been released yet.
1b) Mai (Avatar) will be moved to end of January most likely, to focus on meeting commissions and waiting for hopefully some new high quality assets to work with.
2) I've also (thankfully) received a lot of inquiries about commissions, but a combination of the higher and higher hours I'm dedicating to each look and having to turn down too many people/potentially very long wait times I have to do these changes to make things sustainable;
2a) Base EA public commissions will now have a cost 80 dollars, 90 through vice-admiral tier bundle.
For transparency purposes, vice-admirals won't be charged this until the next charge date after February 5.
2b) I will now only accept 3 commissions on the queue, down from 4, I will leave the current space open since several people previously asked me about it before this proper announcement.
3) From now on, swashbuckler+ members will have access to treasure trove content 3 days earlier instead of 2 days.
Thank you and apologies for the changes, but I don't want to get complacent and/or slow down, and either way if you have any doubts or complaints regarding this feel free to get in touch.
