IMPORTANT: Changes to Bronze and Silver Cohort (Patreon)

I am going to make some changes to reward tiers of Hunt and Snare tomorrow, I wanted to post this as a forewarning so you (patron, or public player) know what is going on and what changes are being made ^^

Onwards!

Change 1: Bronze Cohort becomes "early adopter" -tier. It is limited in number (no new pledges if there are more patrons than the limit is, no changes to any current patrons)

Change 2: Silver Cohort becomes "main build" -tier. Silver Cohort also won't have any additional rewards because it basically will be identical to Bronze Cohort, with just different discord role and no patron limits.

Change 3: Voting influences are removed because they're unfair and unpredictable.

Initially the idea with the 5 USD main tier was to offer an easier-to-bite choice compared to other main furry games (such as Shades of Elysium, or Rack 2, or many others that have 10 USD main tier), and because I didn't feel like Hunt and Snare was quite up to par to them and couldn't co-exist as an equal choice. Think of fast food vs restaurant meal... I felt like they are the restaurant meal made by people known and trusted by many, and Hunt and Snare is the fast fries and a battered minced meat steak made by pair of unknowns. Nobody would pay the same for that ^^'

But Hunt and Snare has grown, a lot, and it has matured, and I've been able to grow the team size quite a lot too. The current team is 4 people pretty much full time, while Hunt and Snare started as a prototype I made alone, Hareress joined in when the project was officially launched. Little after, Ferred joined in (who left quite a while ago), and then Drathek, and recently Nullbunny. 

I feel like Hunt and Snare is a lot more like a restaurant meal now, instead of a fatty snack bar chunky sausage and potatoes with unknown sauce on top kind of meal. It is a lot more on par with the other furry games now ^^

I know it sounds just like a sad excuse to try to get more money, and I'm not going to lie, I hope we can grow our monthly amount, I hope Hunt and Snare grows, because I want to pay our hired programmers Drathek and Nullbunny more, and I want to afford being able to outsource some high quality foley sound effects and music instead of using generic sound effects and free license music, and I want to hire more people to help make Hunt and Snare even more awesome. I don't want Hunt and Snare to be a cheaply produced thing you just toss aside once it's done, and it's not going to be such, but growing bigger will make it possible for us to make even better game for you all ^^

I have been talking with other furry developers who have projects on Patreon for a week or so now, and I feel like the best course of action is to, basically, elevate Hunt and Snare's main tier to same amounts. Appear as restaurant meal along the restaurant meals, so that people will choose on equal grounds on what kind of a meal they want. 

It's the age old thing; "Why is this half as expensive as this other? What is wrong with this?", not all, but a lot of people see more value in something that is priced similarly to other things that have similar quality, whereas something vastly cheaper (or more expensive) appears strange.

But I don't want to penalize anyone who has supported us in the past, every single pledge you have made is valuable to us, and the Bronze Cohort (5 USD -> newest build) will stay as is, but I will add a patron limit to it. What it basically means is that if current number of patrons of that tier is over the limit, it's not possible to make new pledges of that tier. 

It doesn't remove you from the tier, even if the limit is lower than the current number of patrons, and it doesn't change the pledge amount, and I won't change the rewards you get. Basically this doesn't have any effect on you if you're already pledging for any of the tiers where you get a build, BUT if you remove your pledge, you won't be able to repledge on the same tier.

The Bronze Cohort basically becomes "early adopter" tier, while Silver Cohort becomes the main pledge tier for new builds ^^

TL;DR:  Nothing really changes if you're a patron currently, but if you aren't, and are planning on pledging, the lowest tier to get a build at is going to change tomorrow.

With love,
~Ruffleneck

P.s. r4.19 is coming along great. The first character currently has 370 lines of text they can reply to you with, and there 137 speech options you can say to them. Of course not all of those will be available in one go because of branching text x)