Chat stuff: tier retructuring (Patreon)

Some history primer: I've been at this since 2015. In the old days, Patreon's reward structure was additive, the higher tier automaticly has access to the lower tiers. It made for easier posting and offering by combo packs.

then around 2018, maybe 2019, customized tiers were introduced. since then I had the extra brain work of ticking the correct boxes for tier access, and very often I keep forgetting or missed it altogether, and there're no tools to return to old reward format.

so that got me thinking, maybe it's time for a reward restructuring, split things out instead of going by package. here's the break-down I'm thinking

• Silver - SFW @ $2
• Gold - NSFW @ $2
• Jade - PSD stuff / scraps / dev @ $5 (since it's both sfw and smut, just no exported high-res like Silver and Gold)

The upside is it becomes more customisable, pick what you want. Supporting all 3 would be $1 cheaper than current pack. For me, it makes distributing artpacks much easier, only tick a box a tier

The downside would be it'd cost $1 more than the value-added current Gold plan, and there's gonna be a massive upheavel of moving folks around before the next billing cycle, so I gotta make sure everyone's on board. I'm also not sure how it'll affect the current tier access; would new tiers have no access to the past 8 years?

It's a plan for now, nothing for certain yet, but if I'm gonna keep at this I need to streamline a few things

(a simpler route would be, since i no longer plan on rejoining the workforce and thus have no need to focus on folio art, is to kill off Silver and make this purely NSFW. i lose legal plausability though... such a headscratcher )