Please read this before Pledging! (Troubleshooting at the bottom of the post)

Note: The E-mail tiers are being phased out! I highly recommend going with either a discord tier, or Subscribestar! The final e-mail with the december gallery link will be sent on the 30th of November 2020!

Hey!

For both the 5$ and 10$ tier there are two versions:

• E-mail tier, with NO discord access, content is distributed through monthly e-mails 
• Regular tier, with discord access, content distributed through discord, more flexible

Please select the one that fits you better!

1$ tier content is limited to discord, at least for now. 

By selecting an E-mail tier, you opt into a mailing list, where you receive a monthly link to a gallery folder, which contains all my content relevant to that particular tier. The monthly e-mails will be sent during the last day of each month (or the first, depending on your timezone). roughly around 21:00-0:00 UTC. The e-mail address used will be the one that you have attached to your patreon account!

The "Essential Tier (e-mail)" patrons will have separate mails sent to them upon a final release of a video/game part, to minimize the wait for people who pledge mid-month.

The preview tier (e-mail) option on the other hand only has the monthly e-mail.

The reason the e-mail tier does not have discord access, is to encourage people to choose the regular option in the long run, if they have the option. And the tiers are mainly meant for people who can't, or don't want to use discord, so it's a bit redundant. Especially for the people who pledge mid-month, I highly recommend going with the regular option, and getting the files from discord, if it's possible for you.

The e-mail will be sent using BCC, so your e-mail address won't be visible to other people within the mailing list. However, as always, nothing is infallible, so please take that into account before choosing one of these tiers. Chances of anything going wrong is unlikely, but I would still recommend using a separate e-mail, something you might already be using for other content you'd prefer other people not to know about. For example, there's always a chance of human error on my part, by accidentally sending the e-mails without using BCC, or something similar. 

For those who'd prefer using Discord:

How to link your Patreon with Discord

If you're an old patron (or if you can't see the buttons mentioned in the first part for any other reason)Scroll down to the part with "My creator just added Discord as a benefit — how do I get my Discord role?" 

Subscribestar Adult:

If you don't mind, subscribing to my profile on Subscribestar Adult would actually be the most ideal option out of all. Patreon has been cracking down on adult content pretty hard, and there's no telling when I'll get suspended here. As a subscriber, you should receive any benefits there, as you would here. Including Discord, if you like.  All content/polls get posted there. So if you can/don't mind using it, Substar, is the preferable option for me as a creator, since some day in the future, Patreon might no longer be an option for me.

I use the same name there, as here. I can't link to it directly, as this is a public post, unfortunately!

Troubleshooting:

You can switch tiers without additional cost, if you're already a patron with the same pledge amount as the tier you're changing to. So if you've accidentally selected a wrong tier, you can switch it from the "manage membership" section, which you can find when you click the image of your portrait in the right corner of your screen. If you get charged extra for some reason when changing the tier, please contact me. 

If you did not receive an invite/weren't added to my discord server after connecting your patreon account with discord, you can either try connecting it again, or asking me for a manual invite, I'll reply as soon as I notice the message.

If you can't see any channels within the discord server, make sure you have selected a correct tier. The bot does not assign you correct priviliges, if you don't have the correct tier selected on patreon. For example, as mentioned above, e-mail tiers do not have discord access.

If you still can't access discord/see the channels, attempt to switch between tiers of same or lesser value. For example, if you're already at "Essentials Tier (Discord)", change to "Essentials Tier (E-mail, no Discord)" and then back to  "Essentials Tier (Discord)". You can edit your tiers from the top right menu that appears when you click your avatar, from there select "manage memberships". If you did this by going through an e-mail tier, and do not want to receive the monthly e-mail, please inform me, so I can delete you from the mailing list, as it gets added automatically to it, when you choose the e-mail tier.

You are in the mailing list but did not receive the monthly e-mail at the end of the month. Let me know, and I'll send you a manual gallery link to your e-mail address!

You accidentally chose the e-mail tier, but don't want to be included in the monthly mailing list. Let me know, and I'll remove you from the benefits list.

Next release:

Diminishment Chapter 2 Part 1

Things left to do before Final release:

• Audio
• Post-processing (although most of this has been done, during the render prep)
• Portraits
• Possibly some background renders for the non event parts, if required, although I might use place holder stock photos

Note, that if you're subscribing just for a specific release, it's best to join after the release has happened! I can make no guarantees in regards to upcoming releases, as there are too many unexpected things that can happen in the creation process.

That's all for now, have a nice day!