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🕑 Added 2018-05-27 19:23:22 +0000 UTC Now that the story is actually over, I need to decide what can be done to entice people to keep contributing while also still making enough money to prevent finishing the story in comic form from taking like, two decades.Because I am going to be most likely changing the buy-in price to something higher, probably like $5, all of the current pages will be released to the public, so nobody feels like they got ripped off. I think I'm also going to mass-dump the rest of my unpublished chapters as well.
Now, my goal is to be able to recruit multiple artists to help do this story. The problem is, different artists have different work loads and different pricetags and different quality. I've only found two artists willing to participate for the long term, and only one of them is currently being paid because they cost less money and are able to do more work per month. This creates a problem because there's a gap between which artists can do how much work in a month.
Say an artists wants $50 a page, and we can buy up to 5 pages a month. Another artist wants $60 a page and can do up to 3 pages a month. If we have $300 to spend, who gets the money? Do we give the leftover to the other artist and just finish a chapter really slowly? What if that extra money dries up? One artist is inevitably going to get ahead of the other, or I have to artificially throttle how much the faster artist can work. I need to maintain a consistent art style across one chapter either way.
So that's the first issue.
The second issue is that I don't know what the hell do actually give people who pay more money. What do you guys want as Patreon Rewards, potentially? I'm hesitant to do commission raffles because I often end up getting asked to do stuff that I just straight up don't like or lose interest in and the product quality suffers and I feel dirty afterwards.
Need your feedback. Price changes will go in effect before the next pay cycle.
Comments
Ryx
I would suggest maybe a little side story thing? Maybe a chapter per month in a setting/style that you and the patron agree to. Like, hash out what sort of world and creatures and maybe work things up from there? Though, that would bring it's own problems. Too many different worlds would become tedious to keep track of, plus I'm not 100% on your interest with regards to setting and species. Of course, this would have to be for a higher tier, so that not everyone could snag one, for the sake of your sanity and free time. I'm not sure how something like that would be priced, but maybe do some quick math about how much effort it would take you for that sort of thing, and price it according to the hassle? Other than tat, the ideas above are all excellent and I know nearly everyone would love to see some digestive hypotheticals in the Guts and Glory setting.
I sent you some stuff awhile ago with some of my ideas but I’ll repost some of them. I think one way to go would be short stories either one or two chapters long focused on vore and erotica more so than story. Another would be an exclusive story in the guts and glory universe. It could be a back story for some characters or it could have completely different ones. Another short term option could be writing alternate scenarios where someone gets gurgled from your main guts and glory story like Diana getting away with eating Amelia or Violet or something. Also I think if you make the extra story tier cost a little less you will get more people willing to pay for that tier. I also think you could do the commission raffle as long as you make it very clean what you will and will not be comfortable with writing.
