Keeping Idea Pile (Patreon)

Hello again! o^o/

I've received some feedback from a number of patrons regarding the auctions. I honestly wasn't expecting them to play out with instant-win bids in which patrons use all of their points. This trend would make it very difficult for patrons who haven't been around from the start to ever receive anything. Meanwhile, completing auctions has proven to be much easier than expected. 

Because of this I'm going to keep The Idea Pile going indefinitely. New submissions ('new', meaning submitted September 2019 and onward) will cost a small number of points if they are completed. Requests from before September 2019 do not cost points. You can have an insufficient/negative balance of points and still submit requests, but it means not being able to win points-only auctions and there is no guarantee that it will be chosen. Idea Pile submissions will be done sporadically after monthly auctions are completed (which should probably take no more than 2 weeks out of the month). 

Examples of things you can submit include...

- Sketch (3 points*)
- 1x Telegram Sticker (3 points)
- Colored picture (6 points*)
(* +1 point for each additional character/picture if it becomes a sequence/collage)

Due to time constraints and time required for personal projects as well, only a small number of ideas can be done each month, but am trying to keep Sundays available to work on these and auctions (and any weekdays wherein I'm not dead or playing hookie from my day job.) I'm open towards any new feedback you may have on how to improve on this, so please feel free to leave a comment or private message if you prefer.

As always, thanks again for your support
-Scott