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❗️Changing rewards❗️ Adding Gym Pals & Replacing pinup alts
🕑 Added 2024-02-07 19:35:16 +0000 UTCHappy Lunar New Year!
It's been 4 years since I started Patreon. Y'all drive me to make better content!
As you all know I try my best to release comic rewards and pinups on a monthly basis, as this is my way to show my appreciation for your support.
However, I have noticed issues in my reward plan.
The updates of "Gym Pals" have become slower due to me focusing on releasing Patreon reward first since Gym Pals is a publicly accessible content.
I enjoy making monthly pinups. However, drawing alts is more time-consuming than I expected. The angles of the limbs need to be slightly modified for each alt, which takes me as much time as drawing a new sketch. Changing themes every month also limits the space to develope each character.
In the past few months, I tried to lengthen the theme and make it into a series, but it didn't work well. Patrons whose preferred theme doesn't win have to continue voting for themes they're not interested in for 3 months.
I want to ensure all my supporters can receive the content they love from me. Due to this, I have decided to update my reward plan on Patreon to create more space for character development, and to allow me to focus more on "Gym Pals".
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The adjusted plans for each tier are listed below:
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⭐️STAR⭐️ ($1)
- Discontinue Star tier
STAR tier isn't effective. It's also the least subscribed tier. The biggest reason is the rewards aren't attractive enough. Since with the new plans, the accessibility to Gym Pals will be adjusted to patrons above CRESCENT tier, I decided to discontinue STAR tier. New patrons will no longer be able to join it.
📢Current STAR patrons don’t worry! Your monthly pledge amount will remain $1, and in the future you will still have access to high res of Gym Pals, publicly released art, and sketches. It's my way of thanking you for your long-term support.
Please note that if you cancel your STAR membership at any time in the future, the minimum pledge will be adjusted to CRESCENT tier when you rejoin.
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🌘CRESCENT🌘 ($3)
- WIPs of my artwork & comic pages
- Publicly released artwork in high res
- Artstreams on Discord
- Early access to "MMR2: Milk Bath" in high res (flat color version)
- Early access to "Gym Pals" in high res
- Early access to Patreon bonus art & mini comics (will be made public at least 2 months later)
"Monthly pinups" are replaced with "Patreon bonus art & mini comics". Alts are reduced to 0~1, the number of monthly polls are increased to 2, and the voting power are still owned by FULL MOON patrons. The themes of bonus art are more diverse. They can be illustrations or mini comics.
It won't be made public until at least 2 months later. The intention is to maintain a healthy balance between rewarding patrons for supporting me while not holding my art hostage for everyone else.
The update pace of Gym Pals is adjusted to once a month.
All patrons have access to it at least a month earlier.
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🌗GIBBOUS🌗 ($5)
- All rewards from "Crescent" tier
- Exclusive access to "Gym Pals R4"
- Early access to Patreon bonus art & mini comics (will be made public at least 2 months later)
Please check CRESCENT tier for the changes to "monthly pinups".
Other rewards remain the same.
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🌕FULL MOON🌕 ($7)
- All rewards from "Gibbous" tier
- Exclusive access to "Gym Pals R4"
- Exclusive access to "MMR2: Milk Bath" in high res (full color version)
- Early access to Patreon bonus art & mini comics (will be made public at least 2 months later)
- Participate on 2 polls a month to choose the subject of Patreon bonus art & mini comics
Please check CRESCENT tier for the changes to "monthly pinups".
I enjoy receiving feeback from you via voting poll. It's the moment I feel closest to you all. Voting on different subjects also adds fun to creation. In order to increase frequency of appearance of the characters you love, I will increase the number of votes per month to 2. The subjects will be more diverse, interesting and interactive. It will be illustrations or mini comics.
Other rewards remain the same.
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A new year, a new beginning. I wish to expand my creativity, have more interactions with you, and stabilize the updates of "Gym Pals" every month. I still have many stories of them I want to show you. (such as the relationship development between Boss and the manager~)
With the changes I'll able to create to my full potential! You have my word!
Therefore, l hope you will like the new reward plan.
*This month (2024/2) will hold the last monthly pinup voting poll and release the last pinup artpack. The new reward plans will start from next month (2024/3)*
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Ripple Moon
Sorry for the long article. I wish to explain my thoughts behind all the decisions since I really cherish you all. If you have any question, feel free to ask me here, discord channel or via message box! Thank you!
