Financial report 02 2018 (Febrary) (Patreon)

Hello everybody!

January 2018 was a month of sudden significant growth. we have received a significant increase in funding and this is an extraordinary motivation for us to make more efforts to this project.

At the moment, all payments have been processed. and all subscriptions are renewed.

I remind you that the subscription date can be seen on the left side of our website. If this date has not changed, then either your payment was not processed (and you need to check the availability of money on the account and the relevance of the bank data), or we are dealing with a technical error. in this case just let us know and we will quickly fix it.

I will also remind our new sponsors, some of whom for some reason have never been on our website. On the day you make a payment to Patreon - we send you an invite-link, username and password. Using which you can access all the pictures for which you paid. If you subscribe to several of our projects, they will all be available in your update stream on this site.

for those who left our club (I see that several people stopped paying):

I remind you that if the account has not been extended for more than 2 months, then it gets the status "frozen" and the function of backup image recovery will not be available. At least until you want to return. If you want, you can return later, but consider - your subscription will move forward at a rate of 1 month of content for 1 month of time. You can not catch up with the backlog simply by paying for the missed months. You can buy several months of access only if your subscription has not exceeded the date of 08.2017, i.e. you see less than 200 pages of the novel.

In the future, we will probably come up with a way of slightly speeding up the advance, but I can at once say that this method will be slow. probably it will be something like "within a year you can get 13 months." those. in one of the months to buy immediately 2 months. or 3. but hardly more. I remind you that all this scheme is a compulsory measure in order to reduce the number of attacks on our project and make the payment system more fair with respect to our sponsors from car 1. we would not happily resort to these difficulties, but alas - on one scales, the development and acceleration of the project, on the other - its slow and inevitable withering. we hope that our new sponsors will take it with understanding and the need to pay all those months that are created thanks to our sponsors from car 1 will not seem to them anything terrible.

With this money, we will be able to create more pages in a new month. The sponsors of car1 will see these additional pages at once, but all who pay for the early pages will also receive more pages in each new month. as their subscription reaches the date that they came to our club - all the money spent will return to them in the form of an increase in the number of pages per month.

The rest of the details are in the large introductory text on the first page of the project. probably we will improve it a bit in the next 1-2 weeks, to further reduce and simplify this description.

ah yes ... financial report.

in January we received tangible growth. but at the same time because of that. that Patreon has forbidden us to conduct raffle, we will change our model in this area. For the time being, I find it difficult to name the exact figures. But in advance: because of the refusal to raffles we had to lose about 400-500 + dollars of funding, this is 4-5 pages per month. in fact, the speed would be reduced from 20 panels to 15 panels, because without sufficient motivation, most people would not pay more than the maximum "standard tariff" of $ 10. Nevertheless, we voted among the VIP sponsors and received 2 leading options. in one of the options, people retain funding for the basic comics (if someone wants to do this without any additional rewards) ... in another version with the most votes, the VIP sponsors chose the following scheme:

we have calculated the amount that we receive from our most generous sponsors in excess of $ 10. In the predecessors of this sum, we create an experimental mini-project for them - the very "extra pages" that were going to be launched long ago. but due to lack of funding in sufficient amount - postponed. In the near future we will present the first page of this project (sketch) in the general access. but the final part of this and subsequent extra pages will be available only to VIP sponsors who will finance this mini-project. We will try very hard to make those pages special. They will have a more complex coloring, they will be invested more labor. VIP sponsors will be able to vote at all stages of creating pages in that project. offer their subjects, choose one or another angle and pose. In a word, actively participate in the process.

the bad news is that all this will be available only to VIP sponsors, this is their special reward for generosity. In contrast to the raffles, which we published in the free galleries in the low-res and gave all of our sponsors

we have calculated the amount that we receive from our most generous sponsors in excess of $ 10. In the predecessors of this sum, we create an experimental mini-project for them - the very "extra pages" that were going to be launched long ago. but due to lack of funding in sufficient amount - postponed. In the near future we will present the first page of this project (sketch) in the general access. but the final part of this and subsequent extra pages will be available only to VIP sponsors who will finance this mini-project. We will try very hard to make those pages special. They will have a more complex coloring, they will be invested more labor. VIP sponsors will be able to vote at all stages of creating pages in that project. offer their subjects, choose one or another angle and pose. In a word, actively participate in the process. In this mini-project, we will not be limited to the scope of the story, the time of events, or any framework.

the bad news is that all this will be available only to VIP sponsors, this is their special reward for generosity. Unlike the raffles, which we published for all our sponsors of any category and even in free galleries - in this new scheme this type of prize is taught only by those who fund it.

the good news is that we assumed that if we were to spend part of the funding for creating extra pages, the main comic would lose several pages a month. Earlier we assumed that it would be about 4-5 pages. those. Instead of 20 panels per month, we will slow to 15. However! in view of the fact that in January our growth has outstripped the most optimistic assumptions, it seems we will still make 20 panels of the basic comics. those. sponsors of initial levels will not feel any changes, and sponsors of high levels will receive 2-3 special pages a month.

Which, however, does not negate the fact that if in the financing of the base comic book and extra pages there are declines - then we, of course, will have to lose some speed in this or that type of content. However - the current growth rates give hope that by the summer we will reach the speed of "one picture a day", and by winter - maybe a bit higher speed. However, I do not want to be overly optimistic, it depends on too many factors.

in any case - thanks to all for the support of our project, we try to work better and more carefully every month. We work for you and this project would never be born, if not for your interest in it!