Upcoming changes (Nov 2016) - Updated

Last Update: Nov 16th 

Updated stuff is underlined and bold.

Hey!

I'll be making a few changes soon: monthly pictures, new reward tiers and charge up front. This post is meant as a heads up but also to gather your opinions on this stuff, so do let me know what you think!

Charge up front:

This is something I have to activate per e-Mail, which I haven't sent yet, so it'll be a couple of days before this goes live. Here's what it does:

• In the future, new Patrons are going to be charged immediately after pledging. 
• Existing Patrons won't be charged when the switch goes live and instead will be charged on the 1st of each month, as usual. 
• When raising your pledge, you'll be charged immediately with the difference to your current pledge. 
• Lowering your pledge won't result in a refund. 

This is to stop people from raising their pledge, get the reward, then lower it again. I've only been on Patreon for a week and I'm already seeing this happening. If you're not okay with this change, please feel free to un-pledge. It's fine, no hard feelings! 

You can read more about this here and here. It seems to work exactly like you'd expect it to work and doesn't seem to have any catches for either the Patron or the Creator. 

PS: Got it confirmed that it works exactly like described above, even though noone got charged until now. So you won't be charged upon the switch and if you raise your pledge afterwards, you'll still be charged the difference to your previous pledge, not the full amount.

Monthly Picture!

Each month I'll be making one picture and you guys vote on the character. It'll be a pinup style picture, not super explicit hardcore stuff. There might be the odd exception here and there, but generally I like the softcore approach better when it comes to pictures.

New Reward Tiers!

In addition to the existing rewards and tiers, I'll be adding a few new ones:

• 2$: Vote on monthly picture - That one pic is guaranteed, but more than one pic/poll per month might happen.
• 5$: Vote on some animations - Unless there's already something I really want to do, I'll let you guys pick the next animation.
• 10$: You'll get a watermark-free version of my stuff - With each release I'll attach the file to a post. There'll also be a link to a Mega folder, where you'll find previous watermark-free works. That link will be changed each month.
• 20$: Early preview of rendered shots - As soon as a render is finished, I'll upload a clip of it for you guys. Until I finish compositing the final shot, which might take a day or longer, you'll have exclusive access to a near final release. Everybody will get access to the final version at the same time though! Click here to see the difference between this raw and the final version. 

Polls will be held on Google Forms, so you'll need a Google Account in order to vote. If I catch people cheating this system, I'll switch to alternatives, I've already scouted out. They're more work for me, which is less time I can spend on smut, so consider this when trying to play unfair!

I'll be rolling out the new Reward Tiers first, so you guys will have a chance to switch into whatever Tier you want, before charge up front goes live. After that, switching to higher Tiers will charge you.

Alright! Opinions! Go!