Important: Patreon Tier Update (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

Today we're going to talk about some changes being made to the Patreon tiers and discord roles. There has been a lot of confusion involving the roles and benefits, as well as the patreon bot itself not working. We're going to try and fix that today, while opening up the high tier roles for more people that wish to pledge.

Unfortunately Patreon has had some changes in the last couple years which necessitates this, and we've also had some confusing issues compounding since these roles were first implemented.  The biggest changes, however, will be to the lowest role, Peon, and to some of the benefits of the lower tiers. We're changing Peon from a $1 to a $3 role. 

We will not actually be 'removing' the old $1 Peon role, people who currently have it will retain that role, it will just be unlisted so new supporters won't see it. You will not automatically be charged more and you are not required to upgrade to the $3 tier. Your subscription to this role will not disappear unless you manually remove it or update to one of the new roles.

This is an important decision that has unfortunately been a long time coming. This isn't a case of needing to ask people for more money, it's the fact that a lot of the money we get from $1 pledges is actually going to patreon with how the transactions work.  Currently, Patreon (And SS) is taking roughly 35% of every one dollar tier, which is pretty rough since over 70% of our supporters are $1 supporters. This was a change some time last year, and now even patreon recommends not making our lowest tier $1:

We will also be bringing the higher tier Patreon roles into more decision making, opening the 'Praetorian' and 'Aldrukai' roles to more people while updating them to their intended pricing ($35 and $50 respectively). Praetorians will have an invite in the public discord server that will give them access to a more private testing discord server where they can test early builds and give direct feedback to us devs.

We will also be changing the old 'Bloodbound' role which was for those that pledged a certain amount over their lifetime into a new role called 'Navkatarr' for discord purposes, which will then be locked. The reason for this is because the old bloodbound role caused a lot of confusion, and we still want those who supported us to keep their benefits/lifetime role. So there will only be one Bloodbound for those who are actively donating $25 and our long-time supporters as 'Navkatarr'.  

If anything is going wrong for you since this update, if something isn't working quite as it should, please tell us so that we can do our best to fix it for you!  

The launcher for the game may also behave strangely today while we update things. 

 Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued support!