15 days after the monthly campaign change. The state of things. Ideas.

Alright. It's been a nerve rollercoaster for me this last two weeks. But apparently the monthly gross amount of patronage has stabilized the last week or so. I'm going to be a little real here. I lost a worrying amount of your patronage with the switch. 1/3rd to be precise. I was getting roughly 2k USD (2,2k on good months) with the weekly system before, and with the switch we went down to 1451. That's roughly 1/4 in USD, but 1/3 in mexican pesos, which is the currency I get, after the conversion, Of course I'm sad, sure. But there's no culprits, i guess. The change was meant to be better for the patrons and it would give everyone a little more certainty and transparency. I can only think the rewards I offer today for bigger pledges aren't as attractive as they were on their compressed, weekly versions, or maybe it's just a matter of impulsiveness from the patrons when they join up, I don't know. I only know i'll keep doing my best to get back to where we were and more! It's not -critical- or anything, (I feel like i'm complaining and I certainly have no reasons to!) I can still make a decent living with what I get today (which i'm super duper grateful thx ;W;!!) , but it's just, well, sad :( Now, i want to implement some changes, because -something- definitely has to change. And i wanted to hear your opinion and your feedback on it. Right now I only have a couple ideas: The first one, would be changing the "silver ribbon-get access to the after-hours archive" feature and turning it into a reward for those on the $40 tier. I couldn't do this in the past because there was no sure way to measure a precise amount of pledging money from the patrons, because the monthly limits, but now it's right there. I feel $40 a month is very reasonable right now, for what, 6-7 comics? eventually a lot more? Would you put your money into something like this? :O My second idea is, well, not patreon related, but more about the other stuff I do. Live sketch commissions. I would keep the $40 pricetag, but I would start charging for characters (that sounded more reasonable than upping the global amount of 40 up to 50 or 60 but idk O_o) probably something between 10-20 USD per character. Does that sound too terrible? >_> I've been going around streams lately and i've seen a lot of other artists changing a lot more than I do D: and it's been an entire year since the price got to $40. Perhaps it's time to nudge that pricetag a little :S? Hum, what else can I think of... I can't think of anything else I can give :S Most people seem interested in the after-hours comic, so anything resource-related doesn't sound very good (like making tutorials or how-tos and stuff, which is something rather common on patreon pages) Maybe a raffle pic?? People seem to do that a lot S: Maybe keep it between $20 patrons and above? I really need to push the 20 and 40 tier a lot more, because those were intended to be the main attractions here T.T Any ideas? P.S.: I'll make a pool soon (tm) about taking an after-hours day out of the month for answering tumblr questions, cuz people really dig those and it would be a good way to promote the patreon page a lot more :>! Pic related, it's a whole internet just for you, for reading this massive wall of text.