About Requests, Part 1 / Upcoming Plans (Patreon)

Hey! This week, I was planning to post a big write-up with my ideas for the future of requests, as promised, to get your feedback. But since the post turned out really long—and because some options need extra demos/examples I didn’t have time to finish 😅—I decided it’d be better to split it into smaller parts.

First off, here’s the plan for the near future:

• Regardless of which request option we choose, new requests will reopen next month.
  

• Additionally, there will be a short break next month (around a week or so). During that time, the usual content won’t be posted, but I’m hoping to share a few examples of alternative content formats I’ve been working on but haven’t finished yet. I’ll definitely post something from that lineup during the break.
  

• By the end of this month, I also plan to post some extra content with both new characters and some previously featured ones. These will include examples of a “request format” that I’ll explain more in Part 2, and I’ll also be using the newest version of my main image generation model to create this content.

Now, about requests: while thinking through the options that could work for me and be interesting for you, I realized that maybe the current system is also an option… just with some tweaks. Here’s the breakdown:

• Option 1: Requests would periodically open and close. For example, requests open today, and once, say, 20 requests are submitted, the form closes until most of the current batch is completed.

• Option 2: A downside of Option 1 is that requests would only go through for people who manage to submit them fast enough 😅, which might not feel great. But considering that [Max] isn’t too expensive and has other benefits like extra content, maybe it’s okay? I’m not sure. To make this fairer, though, here’s a variation: During an open request period, there’d be weekly polls for the requested characters. The ones with the most votes would be done as full requests, and those with fewer votes would still be done but in a “simpler” format (fewer images or missing some detailed specifications).

• Option 3: Option 1 + an extra feature for guaranteed request completion.*

• Option 4: Option 2 + an extra feature for guaranteed request completion.*

* - By “extra feature for guaranteed request completion” I mean either an additional tier with a higher cost (to avoid getting swamped with requests 😅) or maybe handling it through a different service—or both. You get the idea.

Okay, that still wasn’t very short 😅. I’ll post Part 2 next week, but in the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts on these options—whether we should rule anything out or add any of them to the poll for Part 2.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps supporting! I hope you’re still enjoying the content!

P.S. The full set with Nyotengu from the images at the beginning of this post will be ready and published tomorrow.