Not to be a dick or anything, but...how many of the quests you begun have you actually finished? Because I have seen a lot of quests of yours and it always looks like the same thing happens.
1ste. You start a quest.
2nd. You post a couple of updates (not particular large ones from what I have seen usually).
3th. You start a new quest or story.
4th. You drop the first quest.
I mean you have some neat ideas, but I have pretty much blacklisted your quests in the sense that I just forego them, because I am certain of it that they will be dropped after like 3-4 updates if they get that far. And the updates usually aren't worth the wait, few of your quests have even a 10K word count. It isn't my business in what or to whom other people give their money, but given what I know about your track record saying that donating towards this quest will meaningfully impact said quest does sound quite dubious given your track record.
I don't think you are a dick. I think it is something that needs to be asked so I can address it.
How many quests have actually finished, none.
Saying that I would like to point out that quests in totality have an incredibly low completion rate, honestly I'd be shocked if it's above 5%, seriously ask yourself how many finished ones you can name, VS how many you have seen.
I have dropped quests for various reasons.
A few months ago I dropped a steam punk one. I had literal pages of notes and planning, and it had charts and loot box mechanics and just a lot of work went into it. Then it's reception on the forum was barely lukewarm.
I dropped a cultivation one for similar reasons.
1) I drop a Quest when it's effort is far beyond the reaction from the forum.
Others like the skeleton Quest of Xcom2(village)
Both were huge and well received.
I dropped them when something happened, like a time I nearly became homeless.
2) I drop a Quest when I am suddenly robbed of energy and time, I have other things going on in my life a quest is an easy obligation to drop.
Now the first of those two issues I am solving by doing this one week of questing.
I really like brutal redemption. But it's a heavy, big read, kind of a high barrier to entry and the forum doesn't seem to care much.
So it probably won't be continued. I feed off of the readers energy.
And the amount of effort I'm putting in VS the reaction just isn't worth it.
Zerg Quest and Sandwich Quest, are kind of the exact opposite in that the reaction has been great I for a much smaller amount of effort.
Those two are very unlikely to go anywhere.
So this week of quests shows me what projects of mine, to keep, and which sadly need to be allowed to die.
So, that's the solution and the answer to the first reason I drop things.
1) I'm testing Quests now before continuing them after the first post. To only keep the worthy ones.
As for the second.
Well, I know this is already wordy but let me explain what I'm thinking for my patronage.
Every Quest will have a dollar amount associated with it.
When the Donations related to that quest hit X amount I write an update.
EG: Brutal Redemption, I may set "Update Cost" at 25$ with only a single 5$ patron I'd update it every five months.
at a total of 25$ in patrons , monthly
at 100$ weekly.
Now those numbers are kind of random, I'm still mathing out how many updates I can do in a week/month and what the cost for each needs to be.
If I'm doing 2 updates a day, that is 14 a week, or 56 a month. If I want to write full time, I would need to make 40$ per update.
Which since patron is in monthly that would be a 10$ base cost to update a quest once a month.
So the reason to donate would be because it guarantees updates now with only 1 or 2 people giving smaller amounts that rate of update will be slow, but to be fair, I'm going to do some updates for free until I start getting closer to actually booking my time up.
So if someone really like brutal redemption and wants at least a monthly update, 10 dollars isn't much but it's enough that the math works out so that I can in theory go full time. (If I can get enough of them)
Which is the other half of patron.
If I hit 2K I quit my job. I don't almost go homeless patron pays my bills.
My previous health issues are resolved now. (I did quit some quests when I got covid, but come on, it was covid)
I am doing a lot better emotionally, etc etc.
My life is more stable and patron means I am bound to update at least slowly.
That will be the main drawn of my patron
Which I am still reorganizing, doing it during the 7 days was a bad plan, I admit but I wasn't actually going to drop a link to my patron until after the 7 days, but someone already donated so I felt I owed answers, and since I'm reorganizing it, I needed to ask quests about "Pay to win" now so I know what to put or not put as benefits.
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