Milestone week (Patreon)

The reason I'm making a big fuss about 15k subs is because I blasted past 5k and 10k at such a speed that I didn't get the opportunity to really celebrate it (other than the continuous lap of honour I did around the house for 6 weeks).

Here's what we have coming up:

- New logo and overhaul of all channels and branding. This marked a step-change in the progress of my channel when I did it last year at around the same time.

- New channel trailer (as posted yesterday).

- Brand new merchandise.

- Launch of my "Kit" page, more details on which will be coming soon.

- Series rollovers.
.. Train Sim World gets its last outing for now today, it'll be back when new routes are available.
.. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has 2-3 more episodes remaining, and unless the view numbers go lunatic Steggs and I will move onto some other form of nonsense.
.. Flight Simulator X has been selected by the Officers Club to replace TSW.
.. XCOM 2 will be getting a series. Yeah, so I need to rethink my Colonel Tier rewards. I'd love to cover XCOM 2, but it's a big time investment. Not complaining at all, but time is the most precious resource right now.
.. Banished and SimAirport streams will be edited and published. Maybe not SimAirport - I need to get a feel for the stream's entertainment level, but Banished is fine.
.. My next game preview video will be released. It may also represent the next Bad Company game, but I'll keep that as a teaser for now.
.. Some minor Patreon rejigging. As mentioned above, offering a full series at the Colonel Tier was a BADLY THOUGHT OUT PLAN. Maybe cap it at 3 episodes in future. Watch this space.
.. Bombastic intro and endslate overhaul to match the new theme. Don't worry, the sloganator will still be used, as will my theme tune.
.. New fishtank for Twitch.

I'm sure there's more. But that's more than enough for now.

The series schedule is looking like this:
2x Transport Fever (logistics)
2x Multiplayer (maneuvers)
1x FSX (logistics)
1x Motorsport (logistics)
1x IMPORTANT RANDOM GAP

XCOM, preview videos and edited streams will be extra videos. Just need to be more ruthless about my video length. 40 mins+ is going to have to take a back seat as it's unsustainable. More on that in May's Reduced.

It's like a job this. Except I fit it, somehow, into a couple of hours per day.

-CF