Start Month. Few news, status... etc (Patreon)

Hello everybody! So, the first month of the new rules.

Once again I remind all those who urgently trying to break into the A-Club:

welcome new sponsors terminated as a result of the fact that we are fed

up with catching the thief and increase the amount of the entry fee. We want to leave the club only loyal sponsors who appreciate our hard work.

As a result, we have tightened internal rules:

- All thrown away, whose donation was not processed even once since the introduction of them in the list of sponsors.

- Full list of donations processed successfully. Those whose donations were processed Patreon - get one month subscription renewal.

- Those whose donations have not been processed, but who previously

had at least one successful payment - receive an automatic message about

this situation and warning about changing the rules of the club. They have about 1 month to correct the situation. If Patreon not be able to handle their donation for the second time in a row and we will not get them any feedback, we will conclude that they lost interest in our project and also remove their sponsors list.

- If you see the update server that your subscription has not yet been

extended, but it did not receive the private message that your donation

has not been processed - please contact us and we will investigate the

situation as quickly as possible.

- This month we have 14 new sponsors. They are the ones who began to make donations before we stopped accepting new sponsors, but did not get the amount of the entry fee (price early pages). Some of you are on the verge of it, some have received an invitation to the A-Club this month. All of them have gained access to the last year of updates. If you do not see the e-mal with an invite-link and access a password, please notify us via private message Patreon or to our postal address. We will try to solve this problem as quickly as possible.

Attention:

in automatic message was written that I will send you previously created pages in 1-2 days, but given the number of new sponsors, we will probably again not have time to do it quickly. We will try to do it as quickly as possible, but probably it could take a week. After all, I have to make a lot of a lot of updates in parallel to this process.

Now funding.

The results of this month are as follows:

it seems at the first evaluation I am a little mistake in the numbers.

This month we earned ~ $ 2200

The February decline was offset by the payment of support for the early pages of the coming new sponsors, and it allowed not to reduce the pace.

But now, as we can not accept new sponsors (only C-Club for them) ... we will have some time to do fewer pages. Probably only 15 frames in this month. But we will try to our VIP-sponsors did not feel this loss and make them a little more extra pages in the near future. Probably it will not be five additional extra pages, because we have lost asignificant part of the funding, but it will be at least 2-3 additional extra pages. Thus, we hope to stimulate sponsors lower levels move to a higher level of support to our project and to receive more pages. Subsequently, if the C-Club will start to make a significant income, we will certainly restore the number of pages per month to the previous rates. In the meantime, perhaps I will not be able to eliminate all overstrained backlog of past months.

This "bad option", assuming that none of those whose payment is not treated now - do not correct the situation.

In the event that their payments will be processed in the coming days, we will probably increase the number of shots that can be done.

However, we do not want to decrease funding and reducing the production of new

pages affected those who sacrifice on this comic is much more than the bottom line price list.

Therefore, in the next few days we will decide how to act in this situation.

We have two ideas at the moment:

1. we just increase the number of extra pages in the number of lost pages.

Thus it will be 7 or 8 additional pages of comics for sponsors 15+ category.

Since funding is still reduced, we have to work as much as before. but for less money.

But we are ready to work in this mode for several months to see if the number of people willing to get extra pages will increase.

Maybe it compensates us to decrease the amount in the coming months and we

will continue to work with the same pace for our VIP sponsors.

If this does not happen, we will think further. And probably we will have to reduce the total number of all pages of a comic book, which we create for A-Club.

2. we can do more individual prizes for our most generous sponsors. We're a little behind, and with it, but we plan to make up for all.

And for those who have gone or whose donation was not processed and it has not received renewal:

Of course all the pages that we had time to do in February, will be available to all who came out of the club right now. And those whose subscription has not been renewed in March. As soon as we make these pages, you will see them with a date of February on the update server. They will be available to you about a month from the date of publication.

Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, does not allow more than Patreon send

notifications sponsors to stop supporting the project or deleted from the club.

Thus, we can not send you a notification, you should keep an eye on these pages yourself. You will have a month in time to save this page.

Everyone else who supports us now - thank you!
we are happy to work for you and will diligently work as long as funding permits.

C-Club

https://www.patreon.com/fafcomics_c_club

is showing signs of life, we already have a number of sponsors there, so perhaps soon we will restore the speed to create new pages.

I hope.

So, our team (what's left of it) continues to work, yeah ;)


upd:

because the thief is in the 15+ category and we have seen his comment,

promising leak comic CATastrophe, we had to disable access to the comics

for club members. As you know, I participate in the creation of a comic book as one of the big teams. And under the terms of our agreement with the team, I had the right to share this comic book for VIP-sponsors of the club. It was a free bonus in addition to the extra pages. However, to avoid similar incidents in the future, I have to stop this bonus to my enemies can not harm the other team in this way. Unfortunately, not all people are able to appreciate the free gifts = (

At the moment, I disabled access to the comics at all, but maybe I'll leave it at the Gold and Platinum sponsors. I believe in the loyalty and integrity of these guys, I can not doubt. If this comic liked someone hard enough, you can find it here:

https://www.patreon.com/catastrophe