Brotherhood tier is kind of pointless right now (Patreon)
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God I hate the new Patreon layout... Anyway, Brotherhood tier is pointless because nobody does the story collab stuff and even the handful of people who did do it produced results that were more often than not incredibly bad and I completely lost motivation to do collab stuff.
If you were already charged for this month and you want a refund, I can do that. Otherwise you're just giving me more money for no reason, which is fine if you wanna do that, but I'm not going to force it.
I wanted to still have a way of allowing people to input story ideas but attaching a monetary price on it implies I am obligated to do it, and to be perfectly blunt, some of the suggestions I get are complete shit and I have zero desire to write for them no matter how much money you throw at me because it makes the story objectively worse. Like no I'm not going to suddenly move the whole story focus so Diana can UB your personal OC or whatever. No I'm not introducing a new emo radstag centaur herm. No I'm not letting your magical furry fox make a cameo in the story. And no, once and for all, there is no god damn reforming--not even cloning. No, no, no, and once again no.
Not all of them were this horrible, but these are some of the extreme examples.
tl;dr the collaboration perk has been scrapped because a lot of suggestions were shit and I don't think it's fair to charge money when I refuse to make bad additions to the story
I'm sorry this sounds super callous. It's not directed at anyone in particular. All of the people currently still in the Brotherhood tier are not the same people who gave me such horrific demands. The people who were already took their money and left and I don't care. Even still, the remaining Brotherhood tier people either haven't made use of this tier's perks, or they have, and I had to reject their ideas anyway because they just didn't fit in well. Therefore, I just don't see the point anymore.
Now I haven't unpublished Brotherhood tier (yet) but I want feedback on what you want to see from it instead. I'm not opposed to collabing, but I don't want to stick a price tag on that, and I already do suggestions in the #VIP channel which is available at a lower tier (Minuteman). So now what?