*VERY IMPORTANT DISCUSSION TOPIC* (Patreon)
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as written in the latest update post, there's no artworks pack planned for this week but we'd like to have a discussion with everybody about the future of "The NTies Patreon".
We'd like to know if any of you have suggestions about content and other things.
Here's the things we'd like to discuss:
*You have to know that this Patreon isn't making enough money yet and is at risk to be paused/interrupted at some point. Reaching the first milestone would be the moment when this Patreon is considered secure and good to go for an undetermined time.
That said, your precious help is slowing down the risk for the Patreon cancellation, so thank you for the support you provided so far!
*The access to "early access" contents will change. From now on we'll send links through private messages instead of posts.
*There's a "Special thanks supporter credit" for the $10 tier but we hardly know if patrons actually needed it in the first place. There's also $10 patrons who happened to be fraudulent accounts, causing some trouble with the stats and making the handling of the "Special thanks supporter credit" a little problematic.
If nobody's objecting, we'd like to get rid of that feature.
*There's big chances for reducing the amount of drawings per update from 3 to 2 fullcolored artworks a week. The current workload is manageable but a bit tough to keep up. However, we'll set back the 3 updates a week if we reach the first milestone.
*We're considering a bit the possibility to switch the pledges from per update to per month. The main appeal about the per month payment is the security and the convenience. New patrons will have to pay upfront to avoid frauds. It will also allow other type of creations like animations which, as you may know, may take more than a single week to be done. It would be quite tricky to handle it with the usual weekly update system.
Considering that we always managed to make every single weekly update (vacation not included of course), you can be sure we'll do our absolute best to keep up the momentum we have with the per update system!
About the pledge rates, the per month will be a bit lower than paying for 4 updates overall.
We'd like to know your opinion so please take a bit of your time and talk about it.
Suggestions are also welcome!
P.S.: By the way, if you feel like it, please tell what you like about NT's art. It would give a nice boost when coming back from vacation. <3