Voting system change (Patreon)

Up to now, we've weighted votes in dev polls based on your support level: $1 Patrons get 1 vote, $5 Patrons get 5 votes, and so on.

After running several of these polls, I can report two things: firstly, the weighting doesn't swing votes.  Opinions tend to split in the same way through the $10 tier as they do in the $1 tier.  So $10 Patrons end up just cancelling each other out, instead of having a bigger impact on the votes.  This is not working as intended.

Secondly, calculating the weighting has turned into a huge pain in the ass.  Patreon doesn't export your support level with the poll results, so I have to manually cross check and adjust every vote.  This takes up a lot of time that could be spent more productively (or at least less tediously).

Therefore, as part of the review of stretch goals and tier rewards, I've made the difficult decision to streamline the voting system.  Voting in future dev polls will be restricted to $5 Patrons and above, who will all get just one vote in each poll.

This means taking away voting in dev polls from $1 Patrons.  I'm not happy about withdrawing a reward, but – because the weighting system isn't working – the $5 and $10 Patrons are not being fairly rewarded right now for their extra support.

$1 Patrons will keep all the following benefits:

Bra sizes bigger than DD.

Back button.

Multiple Kinks at startup.

I'm sorry to withdraw an existing reward.  Please be assured this decision wasn't taken lightly, and was taken with a view to the long-term sustainability of the game and the community.

$1 Patrons, you are appreciated and of course your ideas and feedback will still be valued and listened to here and in the Discord channel.  The aims of reörganising the voting system are to save dev time, and properly reward the $5 and $10 Patrons for their increased commitment.