Changing tiers (Poll) (Patreon)
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Hello everyone.
First of all, as I have said many times before. I'm really grateful for your trust and support.
However, I've noted this flow with Patreon has taken more time than I planned to assign to it and in the long run, I feel it's not sustainable.
I'm not closing Patreon, but I realized I can't be doing lots of polls and exclusives
I constantly worry about the rewards being worth, and many of the times I feel I may not be giving my best.
The current flow is something like: 2 tiers, one for SFW and other for NSFW there is a voting, and pieces are eventually done. The main issue with this is that I spend too much time making the different polls, gathering the images to post them in the sta.sh/folder for easy access of the characters and elements involved in the pieces.
My plan is to reduce this workload and have thought of few alternatives. In all routes. The Comic of the month remains BTW
The proposals for the flow (how to work things out) are:
Flow A: Remove Level 2 and 3, patreon only is a supporter income and early access. (May be temporary) But with this I can focus better on my regular commissions. and other arts in general.
Flow B: Level 3 and 2 are merged (3 USD), I open 2 limited tiers for commissions (One with a frequent comm of 12-5 USD 3 slots and other 2 of 20-26 USD) are opened which would be the pieces of the month.
- Good Thing: Saves time in voting and such,
- Bad stuff: Slots might be hoarded, what is requested might not be the taste of everyone.
Flow C: Similar to the current flow, but tiers are now suggester (5 USD) and viewer/voter (3 USD). The suggestion and voting remains almost the same.
Flow D: Level 3 and 2 are merged (3 USD) The rest of the flow remains almost the same: There is a suggestion period, and a voting
Flow E: Level 3 and 2 are merged (3 USD) The suggestion part remains the same, but Lady luck plays favorites at times
For flows C, D, and E, The idea is:
- Make around 4-5 exclusive pieces per month.
- Quality is meant to remain cell shaded, but might improve the quality for the first place or if it is only 1 character
- The alt shall remain to be one or two per piece. (Could do more if I'm having fun or piece is easy overall)
- The suggestion could be SFW and NSFW, I've noted overall people struggle with
- By merging the tiers, I feel I'll save a considerable amount of time by not having to handle multiple polls
- I don't feel C is a good option, I don't feel that the right of suggesting stuff justifies it price TBH, but might be what people want(?)
Again, Patreon is meant to be a small support income, and I just realized it has been taking a lot of effort overall.
Few other things:
- The NSFW Ideas of this month will still be completed.
- I've noted that there is a struggle with NSFW ideas in general, that's why in most scenarios I just think it would be the best to merge them. Not like my NSFW is THAT spicy.
- The changes are meant to be applied later this month.
- Why 4 -5 ideas? The idea is posting one per week. Might increase in the future, but the main idea is keeping things simple for the time being.
Finally, I personally would rather go for A or E, which would be "Everyone have the same chances", But Lady Luck sometimes plays favorites.
I'll leave a poll with various statements options/suggestions, please votes for the ones you consider apply to you/would make things work better.
Again, thanks for your time and sorry for this flood of questions: