[SURVEY] Future of Animation Suggestion Boxes

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TLDR: Animation Polls will ALWAYS continue to happen, and I'm not going to completely close the Animation Suggestion Boxes. However, going forward, I'd like to have more control over what ideas end up in the polls.

I'd like to add my own personal animation ideas to the polls, as well as include old patron-suggestions that never won. The polls will have a tighter spread of options, and each month will be focused on a different group of characters, in order to ensure longterm variety (ex: 1 month focuses on my classic OCs [Kaylee, Martha, Hailey], 1 month focuses on Busty, 1 month focuses on non-OC characters, etc).

I'd also like to only include animation-ideas in the polls if I can personally work well with the idea, so less ideas are going to be picked from the boxes overall. I might simplify/modify the ideas in order to make them work better for my animation-process, since sometimes ideas are good, but too long.

Vote in the poll to let me know if you are okay with these changes.

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To start, I've noticed that roughly 20-30 patrons submit to the Animation Suggestion Box each month. While this is quite a lot, it's only roughly 5% of the total-patron-count. I don't think I'd ever remove the Suggestion Box (many of my favorite animations come from user-suggestions, including Busty), but the boxes aren't used by a majority of patrons. Going forward, I'd like to start having more control over what ideas are added to the Animation Polls.

I came to this conclusion after finishing the Busty Animation, and seeing the amazing reaction that you all had to it. The premise was patron-suggested (an animation where a woman slightly messes herself a few times, before having a large accident at the end), but it was ALSO a very minimalist suggestion, so I was able to inject a ton of my own ideas into it (character, setting, pacing, the stuff with the vent).

I love it when user-suggestions push me out of my comfort zone and bring me to places that I didn't expect, but I also have realized that I need a lot of creative control in order to make animations on-par with Busty. Every moment counts in animation, since animation is so time-consuming to produce. Simple stories are often best, since I can then spend a majority of the development-time focusing on intense detailed desperation scenes, and elaborate messings. Sometimes I feel like I'm spending too much time on plot/dialog, when I should be constructing moments where the character is simply fighting back an agonizing hold, and going into detail about how badly they need to go.

With that reasoning explained, here is what I'd like to do going forward.

1. I will still include patron-suggestions in Animation Polls, but unlike before, there's no longer a guarantee that I will try to pick at least 1 suggestion from every patron. I'd like to narrow it down to ideas that I think will work well for me, and what I'm interested/capable of doing well. Additionally, I may heavily modify/simplify patron-suggestions, if I think it would help the idea work better for animation. If your primary reason for being a patron is for the Animation Suggestion Box, then please take this into consideration.

2. I'd like to include my own ideas in Animation Polls. Busty contained a ton of my personal ideas that I was eager to do, and ultimately to animation was very well received. As such, I think that animations are more likely to turn out great if I start pursuing my own ideas more often. I already included 2 of my own ideas in the last poll (since the voice-acting is already done), but I'd like to do it more consistently going forward.

3. I'd like to include old patron-suggestions that never won. There's been 4 years of suggestion boxes, and there are a ton of old suggestions that I love, but have never been re-suggested in the polls. I'd like to add them to polls going forward.

4. There are drawing-requests that I've done, which I think would make great animations, and I'd like to include those in polls as well (such as the Peach-BDSM-whipping drawing).

5. I'd like for polls to have a tighter selection of options, and options that are focused on a specific group of characters. For example, 1 month might focus on the Classic OCs (Kaylee, Martha, Hailey), then another month would focus on Busty, then another month would focus on non-OC characters. This is to ensure longterm variety. Even though Busty had a huge positive reaction, she also has middling success in the polls. Obviously I don't intend to neglect the Classic OCs, they are integral to my work, but I'd also like to work on a variety of different animations, as well as cater to less-represented patrons every now and then. Ms. Archdale had a great fan-reaction, but she has middling success in polls as well.

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Finally, with all that said, please vote below if you are okay with these changes. Also leave a comment if you have questions/concerns. I am pretty committed to moving forward with these changes, but I would still like to get your blessing on it. Again, since only about 5% of users use the Animation Suggestion Box, I suspect that most of you are just interested in using the polls, which will still continue to happen.