Character poll changes (Patreon)
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Hello all,
Last month many character suggestions were made, too much for a single Patreon poll, something I didn't expect nor planned. I had to split the poll in two parts and ask people to only vote in one. While overall it went well, I still had to remove some duplicated votes, which wasn't ideal. On the long run, I intend to have the long-planned companion website to handle the voting without Patreon's limits, but for now I had to find another solution. Here's what's changing.
First, the voting multipliers that I tested for a few months will depart. They didn't have as much impact as I expected for size diversity. The monthly shift towards either super size or ultra size (depending which had a bonus) felt too forced, and the usual third winner being a smaller size was more due to an exhaustion of votes into suggestions of bigger size than to a real impact of the multipliers.
Second, voting will now be done separately for each size: chubby, plus size, super size and ultra size. Basically, it guarantees that each size will get some content every month. It also implies that I'll be drawing a fourth monthly character from now on. Drawing four characters instead of three will obviously have an impact on what I create so please bear with me if some delays showed up!
And last but not least: splitting the suggestions into four polls will reduce the amount of suggestions per poll, but it won't prevent the poll limits to be reached again. Only the first 25 suggestions per size will be taken.
Hopefully all these changes go in the right direction, but please let me know what you think.
That's all for now!