Question About Supporting My Work

[Heisa]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to ask the community how they would feel about me opening a Patreon page as an entirely optional way for people to further support the development of GoS:RL Lite and other future projects I will be doing and releasing on GoS.
So I'm writing this topic to see what the community thinks before doing that.

Over the years, a few generous people have had asked me if there was a way to further support my work outside of just buying it here and I have politely declined these offers. That being said, times change and I've been thinking about opening a page as a way for people support the time spent on everything.

To be very clear: nothing major will ever be moved away from GoS. The project, updates, discussions, support, and the actual work would still remain here.
You would not really be buying anything special. It's mostly for helping fund the work. 

Right now my rough idea is to have simple tiers:

• $3 Support - A basic support tier. You help fund development and keep the project and any future work going.
• $5 Backer - Supporter tier + occasional dev updates and dev-blog posts / behind-the-scenes notes.
• $10 Sponsor - Backer tier + your name in the credits/supporter list if you want, plus extra attention and consideration for a personal feature or different project requests.
• $25 Big Supporter - Same perks as Sponsor, mainly for people who want to support more.
• $50 Grifted Supporter - Joke/support tier at this point. Same perks, no extra obligations. For legends, and suspiciously generous people, haha.

About feature requests:

Sponsors and above could submit feature requests that get extra attention and consideration, but this would not guarantee that every request gets added. Features would still have to make sense for GoS:RL Lite for example.
And very importantly, this will NOT take away from regular users who simply bought it  and have requested a feature. 

I might also share small devblog posts or behind-the-scenes notes/screenshot/videos there, but at the time I'm writing this post I'm not sure yet if those would contain anything that the forum would not eventually see too. Possibly other projects I might be secretly working on to be released on GoS, but I don't want to split the community.

So. This will be mostly for people who already wanted to support the work entirely voluntarily!  And please share your thoughts/opinions.

How would you feel about this kind of Patreon/support page? And if you have any other ideas, let me know!

Thanks for reading.

Edited 3 hours ago by Heisa

[Ruger44]

That would be great, your work over the years has always been excellent and it would be nice to contribute even a little bit more if possible