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Cleaning Up Tiers + Plans Moving Forward

Added 2018-07-13 00:01:01 +0000 UTC

It's time for the regularly-scheduled "local man ruins everything" Tier-Switching Bonanza! This time, I'm hoping to get tiers completely optimized. As it stands now, we have 8 tiers. 4 of which are "access" roles (removing restrictions) and 4 are "reward" tiers (you get a free X each month). Ideally, we want to have as few access tiers as possible and a handful of reward tiers as incentive for going the extra mile. Having half the tiers be "pay this much to access this thing" reminds me too much of pay-to-play mobile games. You know the ones.

So, after some careful consideration, I have chosen to cull some tiers that aren't compatible with what I have planned (that is, a higher emphasis on original stories, along with SFX-enhanced stories).

Here is a list of planned changes:

Removal of More Room ($1). $2 will become the new "base" tier, containing all dubs and multi-part stories. $5 tier will have all stories with sound effects, regardless of length or if they're "original features" or whatever. This greatly simplifies what stories go in which tier, instead of $2 being "stories go here if they fit one of these several criteria:".
Removal of Bloated ($10). Double-length request benefit will be applied to $5 instead.
Removal of Ka-boom ($70). $30 tier and $60 tier will instead gain 1 additional spot. This one isn't being removed for the reasons I stated earlier, but instead because nobody bothered with it. Because literally nobody is in this tier, I went ahead and removed it now.
Username being featured in YT will apply to $20+ patrons instead of $5+ patrons. I don't think anyone will be devastated by that decision.

Anyone who will be affected by these changes has 1 week to change their tier to one of the following: $2, $5, $20, $30, or $60.