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Get in loser! We've got places to be ...
🕑 Added 2023-07-31 22:48:12 +0000 UTC
Alright! The results are in and, aside from one exception, they're about what I would have suspected, but it's still always good to have someone else to blame - yes, that's you :b
By far the most popular choices were the direct influence options and the stamp-collection deal, though I had expected the "content suggestions" to win out over the "comic priority" one. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I'm glad my storytelling is interesting enough for you to want to get involved with it and, knowing myself, the direct display of interest will be a good motivator for me to advance on things.
Below those were the discord server and the super-sponsor tier options, at about half as many yay-votes. Given you lot aren't legion, a discord server should be entirely within reason for me to run, at least for now. The super-sponsor tier I'll have to ask around fellow patreoneers to see how they handle such things. Two of you brought up good points on keeping such a tier rotating, so after shopping around I'll try to devise a system that's fair to everybody and doesn't run the risk of becoming a burden.
Finishing last were the live streams and separate N/SFW tiers. I had thought live streams would be more popular, as it's one of the most direct ways of interaction between artists and audience, but I also get that slotting time availability could become a chore for you guys and I suspect that might very well be what kept interest low. As for separate N/SFW tiers, I figured it wasn't much of a priority and that reflects in the voting.
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Given these results, I'll use this month to get the influencing choices up and rolling, as well as figuring out a good structure for the stamp-collection thingie. I don't wanna get ahead of myself, but with a bit of luck I might even be able to offer the first polls mid to late August.
While setting up a discord server is as easy as clicking two buttons (iirc), I do feel setting up a direct exchange environment that works for everybody is a little more involved than that, so I wanna take proper time to do it right - plus it was a slight bit lower priority anyway, so that's a good excuse for me to take a little longer 9w9
The super-sponsor tier will take careful planning too, I suspect. One issue that was brought up to me outside of the poll was that the pricing of the tier needs to be carefully balanced to make sure it's an alternative to, but not in competition with, my regular commission prices, while remaining interesting/affordable. Number crunching isn't my strong suite, but I'll take a crack at it anyway and see what I can come up with, so it's just as well I'll use the same excuse for taking longer as I do for the discord servers <3
As for streams and tier separation, since there was an interest I'll definitely be looking into it, but they should be considered as on the back-burner. After accounting for the multiple-choice-ness of the polling, both of these effectively got a single direct vote and while I don't want to exclude a voice that I asked to hear, I will be giving the other options priority and see where we stand once everything else has been set up and is running smoothly.
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Aside from all this polling stuff, this month has been a little weak on my side and I apologize for that, especially to the T1-ers, as I provided that promissed collection of sketch and doodle material only today - the last day of the month :b
I'm hoping that doing this monday/patreon structure is going to help me to be more consistent with my uploading and providing actual materials for all of you. At the very least I should have more specific materials to provide, with a special day to focus on it :3
Either way, thank you for participating, thank you for future participation and happy new month to all of you.
LYA~
Comments
Tygon Panthera
Of course! :)
iPoke
Yeah, I figure as much. I'm honestly likely to do streams anyway in the future, just not as something that is necessarily directly tied to patreon in any way. Maybe patreon exclusive streams will happen in some abstract future. Glad to hear you're on board for it though :3 Thanks
Tygon Panthera
Very interesting. I'd have thought that streams would be higher too. But I guess it makes sense. Hard to support a feature you're not sure you will make use of (as in, be able to actually attend the streams). Regardless, I'm looking forward to what you come up with. Oh, also, nice Imperial Guard buggy :)
