October Update (Goals, Tiers and a request)
Added 2019-10-03 12:50:26 +0000 UTCHello everyone, happy Spooky Month or for those that might participate happy Inktober ;)
With this update I want to address some things going forward and I also want to put out a little request, Please read everything and feel free to voice your opinion below in the comments or as a personal massage! My Mailbox is always open!
But first lets have a look at last month, I have changed how I post my maps. I hope you like this change as I think it makes it easier for everyone now that everything is in one place, thx again to Cze from Czepeku for helping me out with that!
I've rleased 3 Mappacks in September:
1. The Forest Portal - Free Version & 7 Variants
2. River Styx Ruins - Link
3. The Island Wreck - Link
Last months map poll in which all my Adventurer/Hero tier patrons can participate in had a clear winner, so you'll see a map with the theme of "Ruins/Ancient Civ" later this month.
If you're a Adv./Hero patron the new poll can be found here:
Looking forward to what might win this month ;)
For this month I have planned to release one Halloween/Spooky themed map. I'm not yet decided on the bonus map for this month, so lets see what I will come up with ;)
Now on to the nonmaprelated stuff!
There three topics that I want to talk about.
1. Goals
We are nearly halfway through the current goal, which makes me very happy, as you all know I already built my own lightbox and it has been amazing, once I reach 100$ (I'll add a 100$ goal as that makes it better visible what the next steps will be) I will buy a new scanner and hopefully will be able to release better looking linework versions as well!
2. Tiers
When I started publishing maps on Patreon I was thinking a lot about the tiers and I'm still thinking constantly about them, I'm kinda unhappy with the Adventurer Tier and I think there is not enough benefit to becoming a patron on this tier. I've learned a lot about mapmaking and thanks to better knowledge about the tools and software I am now able to make more variants than I have thought id be able to do when I started. When I started I thought id be able to make one or two Variants of each map , but here I am publishing 7 Variants for the last few maps!
That's why I want to tie 2 of the numerous variants that I make to the Adventurer Tier. I think that this change will make this tier more beneficial/rewarding and adds more than just credits and polls to that tier.
I hope this is OK with everyone! Id like to hear your feedback on this, since this impacts all of you! I'd also like to hear what kind of variants you would like to stay in the Cartographer tier and which you think would be nice for the Adventurer Tier.
3. Request
I know this might just not be possible for everyone, but I just wanted to kindly ask everyone not doing it yet to reconsider their monthly maximum pledges and changing them to two releases. I'm doing two paid releases per month and most of the time a free bonus release, This basically makes this a get 3 for 2 deal and I really like to keep it that way as I highly appreciate the support I get from each and everyone of you! Just as an example, last month I got 20% less for the second release, which, and I'm being honest, was little bummer for me. But I know that not everyone can financially support me more than that, and that is totally ok!
So, only if you can, I would highly appreciate you looking into this and maybe changing it to two releases!
Last but not least thank very much for reading this wall of text and just being awesome supporters, I'm looking forward to what there is to come and to further increase the quality and diversity of my maps.
Best Regards and have a nice rest of the week
Julian
