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1 April - Month started!
🕑 Added 2016-04-01 18:42:04 +0000 UTClot of news today.
I ask all those who have not yet received the updates carefully read this text. The rest can be skipped if not interesting.
1. This month, we are seeing a very positive figure of 2.5 thousand dollars.
That will allow us to create this month 31 frame comic strip (15 frames 3-4 and extra pages, we had to create in the last month, but did not have time - the thief attack forced us to close the club for a long time to deliberate and make difficult decisions is gone from our team.
one of the technical artists and we had to seek out and learn new things. It took a lot of time, effort and nerves and we resumed production rate just now. also, we finally finished a few new locations, fully modernized house Hetty, detailed the situation of other rooms and had a lot of work, talk about which can be very long, but we are better - show little later..
In sum - we were not able to remove the backlog, but we have not made a noticeable increase in the delay.
Now the work will go faster - in the majority of staff will not be more than 3 characters and a new member of the team finally arrived at a decent speed in area of ??the conveyor.
This month, in addition to the pages who were detained since last month, we need to create 16 frames and 3-4 extra page). So it will be a total of about 34 frames and 6-8 extra pages.
We have seen that some impatient sponsors this month reduced their donations, but those contributions had increased a little more.
Thanks to all who believe in our strength and persistence! ;) We will perform all the scheduled tasks in spite of all the difficulties and problems.
Most of these problems behind - we upgraded the server moved it to a more powerful hardware, found and trained new staff and completed revision of the old locations to the new quality (now renderings are in color).
This required almost complete redesign of the house and the room situation, but it is behind us. Very soon you will see a lot of beautiful shots with these locations.
As for those who have reduced funding for any reason - in order to avoid an avalanche of questions we would like to remind some important nuances:
- Reducing the level of contributions leads to lower levels of access. Change access level downwards - for free.
But if you go down to the low-res access (less than 3 dollars), then return to the hi-res access category will require expenditures of $ 20.
In fact, it is the entry fee difference for low-res and hi-res Access level. Attention! this applies only to low-res and high-res levels. Those. go to donations of $ 1.5.
Inside the high-res categories (from 3+ dollars and above - no restrictions on
the increase in donations is not, it is also free).
This is because only the unwillingness to spend much time on complex accounting, tracking of all maneuvers and decisions will be fair to give a hi-res access to someone who for many months donate only 1.5 dollars ... We just want to reduce the bustle and not spend so a lot of time, which is difficult to quantify, and most importantly - this type of work is absolutely not needed rest sponsors, who does not
change the size of their contributions over the years.
They do not have to pay for the bustle of fans jump into low-res and back section.
Since last year, we introduced this rule - jumping by category greatly reduced and it has freed us about 6-7 hours of time that was previously spent on finding someone in what month and how much to pay.
If it was a question about the amount of 10-15-20 dollars - it would be at least minimally justified.
Amounts of 1.5 dollars per month - not the amount of funding to maintain
complex accounting here and spend the many hours of work.
However, for some sponsors this change in the rules was voiced surprise last summer. To avoid such surprise we decided to publish this information again.
2. And one more important detail: the extra pages.
Those of you who were in the 15+ category in December - have recently had the opportunity to see a new batch of extra pages. They are more complex painting, we have tried as much as possible to emphasize the bulge complex shadows. We hope everyone liked ;)
However, some sponsors have left this category recently. And that we are asking them right now to read this information carefully as possible.
- Extra pages are available only to those who were present in the 15+ category. Only those extra pages that are created in this month.
- If you do not leave this level of access never - you will have access to all the extra pages, and you can restore them at any time, as well as the usual comic book page.
-But if you leave this level of access - you will no longer see this section (exception only for those pages that were delayed, more on that later). After leaving the 15+ category, you lose access to the section. You can always restore this access, but you will be available to only those extra pages from which counting begins anew. All early extra page will be lost forever. Taking the decision to leave this level of access - save all the pages available to you on your local computer. We do not provide data backup services. This free bonus is only available to club members. At that level, which sponsors choose the size of their donations.
Exception: For sponsors who have three years of life of the project donated to him more than 500 dollars - for them we will make any exceptions to recover anything.
Alas, due to the addition of many problems and some erroneous assessments
that will be far more complicated process of the transition to a complex painting, we are a little overestimated their strength is not laying on the scheduled timetable potential trouble.
And when the trouble occurred - we have lagged behind. Now our priority - to reduce and eliminate the backlog. But until the backlog is present, we have to come up with a way to minimize the fuss and confusion.
So once again about the extra page:
- Recently a few extra pages published. They are available to sponsors, which had been in the 15+ category in December 2015.
Even if you left the club, or to reduce the level of access - is available to you, this section now. If someone is not available - please let us know, we will correct this error.
Important! For those who reduced the level of access, or left the club - these pages will only be available for 1 month.
During the month, we will place an extra page of January and February.
They will be published with the date of January and February, respectively, so in turn the pages of comics will be between about 5 last pages of the comics.
Date published under every root page.
If you regularly delete all the already read the page from your account - you will see all the new pages at once, with any publication date.
If for any reasons you have removed the old page - you'll have to look for these extra pages among the old pages.
As for the term - 1 month storage. All sponsors, who have retained a place in the club and who is the sponsor of the category 15+ is no change in this area. Period of 1 month storage - for those who have left the club, or reduced access category. At the end of this month access to this section they will be terminated. Instead, the page will appear in January, February and March. Every time we publish these pages, we will inform about this fact here. Check the news and your account.
Once again, I beg everyone who loves to jump from level to level - make backups of their own, do not transfer your vanity on our shoulders, please.
In the study of all these situations and the answers to the questions it leaves an enormous amount of time - before, when we had 300 sponsors - "work with complex information" takes 1-2 days per month. Now in all our projects, more than 1,100 sponsors and we do not want to spend their paid time on those who create vanity with a donation of $1.5.
A day of work, we can create 1-2 pages of comics and we would have preferred to paint rather than delve into whether he paid a $ 1.5 Sponsor 4 months ago or not ...;)
We can not take the individual for support, who could spend the whole day. Therefore, we are seeking to optimize the maximum forgiveness in any process.
And the positive - despite the fact that some donors reduced their contributions, many of you have increased the amount of donations received access to new areas and soon will see an extra page!
We are very pleased that the number has increased donations was more than the number has decreased. Always nice to see that many people trust us and appreciate our work. We try very hard to catch up. And as soon as we do - we will certainly carry out lottery for all the months in which it was performed. All categories of sponsors from 10+ and above will be able to win the picture on your wishes and plots. Those of you lucky enough to win a few times in a row, will be able to order a mini-comic. One of these mini-comics, we must finally make to Method Missin.
3. Now some news from the life of the project:
- We have completed work on a great location for the next stage of comics, completely redesigned home Hetty (for a more beautiful renders it took several weeks to tinker with textures and geometry models to improve the practice, creating it anew...
- In the coming days you will see all that was a long time "only behind the scenes." In the backyard of the house swimming pool and garage, in the other rooms added furniture and other items. But most importantly - in the next few pages you will finally see a new character. Sponsors 30+ category will be able to choose a name and read a small spoiler in the next 1-2 days. ;)
Stay tuned, we're almost finished work on the subject.
4. SUBSCRIBTION STATUS
At this point Pareon completed the processing of all donations.
Our script has completed processing the extension of all the subscriptions, but - it is possible that due to the constant changes in the technical and interface Patreon, we are again confronted with misunderstandings and bugs.
If one of you sees that his donation is processed, but the subscription has not yet been extended for 24 hours - drop us a private message, and we will examine the situation.
IMPORTANT!
We remind that in March we slightly tightened the rules in the field of "no payments processed."
Previously, if someone else's payment has not been treated 3 times (we waited 3 months to make sure that the account is cast sponsor or sponsor has lost interest in the project). Then we removed the useless string from the list of sponsors, because if these lines will be 100-200 - the time it takes to process them would be too long. Now, from March - we've made this policy change are small.
Now, sponsors, whose donations have not been processed for more than 2 months
+ week to lose a place in the A-type club (but may enter in the C-type of club, if they wish).
I think 2 months is possible to solve any problems with loss, loss, or even re-issue any problems with the bank card. We are interested in the fact that A-type club gave even a little less profit, but she was more regular and without the need to conduct a complex accounting. This will allow us to have more free time, more paint .. but at the same time may stimulate the C-Type of the club as a supplement.
5. Button "Block"
And one more thing - before Patreon allowed to be removed from a table sponsors who apparently threw his account. Now delete button changed to "Block" button. This button for a long time was not enough, but the disappearance of the "Delete" button allows you to clear the table of sponsors of dead accounts, while retaining the possibility of correspondence if thrown Account "come to life" ... the disappearance of the button "delete" has become for us an unpleasant surprise. However, that is no reason to spend a lot of time to check the accounts of the dead. We have to use this button, is likely. But this does not mean that we intentionally breaks off all contact with departed from the club sponsors. Anyone can always contact us by e-mail or private messages C-Club (we rarely check them until there is no great revival, but check every few days on a regular basis).
That's all the news for today. Whew ... I think it was too much text. I hope I'm not too tired of those to whom everything said here had nothing to do. I honestly warned at the beginning of the text that the majority of sponsors this text can be easy to miss;)
6. How many of you noticed - Patreon made a big change in private messages.
Now we can not see the chat history prior to this change. Therefore, in the process of sending notices to those sponsors who are still close to the accumulation of an entrance fee, they could be sent not quite correct figures.
If you saved the notification letters about our earlier reports (Patreon sends them to your email on a regular basis), and the numbers in these messages are very different from those that we sent today - let us know and we will investigate the situation more closely.
7. NEW SPONSORS
Several sponsors throughout the year tosend us 1.5 dollars, stubbornly unwilling to pay an entrance fee at once - finally got a place in the club.
I hope this is a landmark event for them was an event with a capital letter ... I envy their patience;) If you are one of these sponsors - rather check your e-mail, in it you will find an invite-link and password to access to our update server, you will be able to download the entire comic book and see all future updates several times a week)
Well, if you have not scored the amount of donations of $ 30, but to make the payments before the A-type club became a closed - do not worry, we are infinite patience waiting for you dotignete amount of the entry fee and will gladly take you to the club;)
8. C-club
Now for those who are trying to join the A-club despite all the personal ads and notices stating that the admission of new members of the club terminated.
Here -
http://patreon.com/fafcomics_c_club
C-type club. With a simplified business model.
You can pay much and do not mind once typed in the amount of $ 100 all get
the picture, which is already available to sponsors of A-type club, but - in contrast to the images of A-type of club available and $ 1.5 per month (with the condition of not
Distribution of this!) pictures C-club will be spread as much as necessary. We will not have any slozhnoystey this. However, while we can see that over the past month, there is the amount collected only 1 picture;) Almost collected .... so likely pace of upgrades will be slightly less than in the A-Club;)))
Since this month, we received approximately $ 26 from those who can not take
the A-club, we solemnly transfer the money in the C-Club and once collected a sum of $ 100, will publish an improved version of the picture there.
Something like this works. To simplify our accounting, we ask all those who tried to join the A-Club in March - ask them to go to the page C-type club. This saves us from unnecessary calculations.
In any case, even different thank you all for your support and interest in our project!
If you have any questions, problems, ideas - is now very convenient to solve all the complicated situation and answer all questions.
Write to us in private messages and age we respond as quickly as possible.
