$1000 Milestone Reached! 3 Updates Each Month!

Thanks to all your generous support, the $1000 milestone for the LifePlay has just been reached. This means that from next month onwards, the update schedule will switch from one update every 2 weeks (i.e. just slightly more than 2 updates each month) to 3 updates each month. In yearly term, this is an increase from 26 updates a year to 36 updates a year.

(I know Patreon's income always fluctuates. In particular, it tends to drop at the start of each month due to declined payments and one-off donations, then hopefully recover throughout the month. Don't worry though, because the points of this post still stand even if the monthly income drops a little bit below $1000 at the start of next month - I'm not really going to say: "sorry, only $999 this month, so only 2 updates it is!" lol - it's really just 3 updates a month from next month onwards. Still though, hopefully, in the upcoming months, a safe margin will be achieved cause dropping below the milestone every start of the month would be a bit of a mood-killer I must admit)

As you know, the v4.0 Variety and Polish Overhaul is ongoing and as part of that, 3 updates are already planned for May:

- v4.0 Beta 3: Sat, 1 May

- v4.0 Beta 4: Sat, 15 May

- v4.0 Stable: Sat, 29 May

The amount of work for each update has already been somewhat pre-planned for the whole overhaul so I'll leave the May update schedule alone since it still amounts to 3 updates a month as promised for $1000.

From June onwards however, the update schedule won't be based around a specific day of the week every two weeks, but 3 specific dates each month, namely:

- Update 1: 8th of each month (General Gameplay and Assets + occasionally some love for unpopular kinks)

- Update 2: 18th of each month (Winner of the Kinks of the Month poll)

- Update 3: 28th of each month (Runner-up of the Kinks of the Month poll + Patrons' commissions)

For example, for June 2021, the three updates will be v4.1 (8 June), v4.2 (18 June) & v4.3 (28 June).

The content of the first update of each month will still be decided by me as the dev cause otherwise the core gameplay features won't make progress at all and the really unpopular kinks get totally left behind, but the other two updates' focus will be decided by patrons in a monthly poll, and then ideas for them are brainstormed by the community. This should solve the issue of Pregnancy being too popular cause now, there's plenty of KotM updates for other kinks too.

Once again, thank you for all your support, without which all of this wouldn't be possible!