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Potential Patreon Change Poll (IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
🕑 Added 2024-07-22 13:57:50 +0000 UTCHello everybody! Thank you so much for all of your support and input, I'm calling on you all once more for some more input as to a potential change to my patreon going forward. Please read this all thoroughly to understand what exactly I'm asking!
First, let me explain my goal with how this patreon runs: I aim to provide, each month, two completed pieces for my $10+ patrons, 2 WIP's of those pieces for my $5+ patrons, at least one bonus image for, the PSD's for my $20+ and the ability to select the characters for polls for $25 as well as the right to vote on the polls for all $10+ members.
Usually I can get these done pretty quickly, usually a week or two, and then the rest of the month I have time to work on things like animations, comics, and games and such. However these have not moved as much as I would like them to, and as a result things like TMMS, animations, and the games I'm making are...happening, but super slowly. So I would like to propose that I change a couple months of the year to the following prospects:
Twice a year at least (probably March and September) Will become months in which I will work on my bigger projects throughout the whole month. Instead of voting for a subject for a pinup in the following month, you would vote for a subject of working on (comics, games, animations, etc) and then vote for one of my outstanding projects in those fields. The projects listed in the second polls would have a percentage of completion attached to them to ensure people know how close to being finished they are. Of course people would still get to see the content earlier, finished or not, in the following month, as well as other bonus work and sketches that I would do.
So what would this mean for each tier, lets break it down:
$1+ You would see very little change, I would still be posting bonus work on this tier in these months
$5+ You would probably see more content than normal, since projects would mostly result in new WIP's being finished first of animations and strips and such.
$10+ You would likely see less content, as finishing projects completely would be not guaranteed during this month but finishing parts would be. So you'd still get completed animations or strips or pages of comics but not the full monte in the month. It's unlikely you'd get nothing here, but no guarantee you'd see two finished things at minimum either.
$20+ You would likely still see some content, as anything finished and worthy of PSD's I'd still include in there! It's possible however that you would not get a PSD if nothing was worthy, but this would also be bigger strides towards completing work that your name will be included on as one of my patrons at this tier or higher!
$25+ You would be getting a new bonus, as I would be choosing pictures from my 'Vizier Suggestions' part of Discord to use as warm ups and bonus images for the month throughout. I would be selecting people who hadn't won anything in awhile to do bonus sketches for during the month so that you would still get a specialized reward, but it would require your participation in my Discord to put in suggestions and update them. Additionally, I will be asking people at this level if there's any older projects they really wanted to see the work on the most both as a means of helping me remember if I've forgotten any and just gauging the specific interests of those at this tier.
So ultimately, this wouldn't shake up the process around here too much, it would just be a different focus for two months in the year in the interest of making my bigger projects keep moving. I could even reserve the right to do those two months for certain and mix in another month or two over the year (Maybe if I'm particularly close to finishing something or not) but I would always forewarn people before choosing that for the month, and could even leave it up to a poll again to hear your inputs!
So what's the plan going forward? Well THIS year I'd like to have an experiment for it, and try this September, meaning next month's poll would be what I've described above. I would very much like to hear your inputs on this, both on comments and in voting on this poll so PLEASE participate if you have any interest in this patreon. I have such big things to show you all, and I REALLY want to make them happen. You have all facilitated my ability this far, and I think with these focused months I can really kick these project's asses! I invite you to please give me your feedback and thank you so much for your patronage! (Also, if I get overwhelmingly negative feedback here, I will not even test it this year XD)
Comments
Mabo
Well technically I already do, it's just that I bounce around these things so many ways which is why I have so many that aren't finished yet. This is going to make it so I get more time in a month but I will still reserve the portion of the month that I would normally use to do whatever I wanted with my own time like I would in a usual month!
Lilacqualia
I'd prefer you choose what you work on than put it to a poll. (I'd also prefer you do that every month!)
Mabo
Well I definitely don't want one to come at the cost of the other but the bigger ones DO take more time XD
Codswallop
Honestly I prefer the bigger projects to the pinups (I'm normally just fine waiting for the public release), the entire reason I went up a tier in the first place was because there was some animations that I wanted to see.
Mabo
Ideally there will be a lot more other things in the stead of them ^^
Mirrored Knight
It is what it is I guess? I don't intend on changing my tier either way. Way it sounds if things kept going as is you'd just have an impossible backlog of work so sacrifices must be made and seeing a few less monthly pinups won't be THAT bad.
Mabo
thank you very much, I'm glad that seems to be the mentality so far :D
Juan Grey
Everything sounds fine to me, it makes sense to take time for bigger projects.
Mabo
I wouldn't have thought of it without my viziers suggesting it in the first place...but either way I'll test it out.
Mabo
what options would you have preferred? and if you have feedback you can't give in those, I encourage you to tell me that here too so I can hear it!
Cotton
Seems like you'll still be producing great content, just now two months of the year will be focused on your personal works. Sounds good to me, dude. :>
Ekaf Eman
the options for the poll will not get you honest feedback
