Re Yesterday's Post, Series Ideas and SNEAK PREVIEW

Well,

How to do I even begin? The support has been absolutely nuts in response to that last post - the point of it, from my perspective, was to explain that content will be garbage for a while because of everything happening, and that I fully understand if people want to stop their Patreon, at least even just until things have evened out a little bit.

The support, either by pledges being upped, or the messages have been more than I ever expected, and quite literally the opposite of the intended effect, to be honest. It ended up being far more negative than I anticipated, but I didn't want to keep alluding to the mysterious Youtube changes without actually addressing that the platform has a serious problem.  

So today, to make up for my groggy 5am rant, I wanted to focus on something a bit more positive and give you all some feedback on what I'm working on.

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Firstly then, slight spoiler, but given the feedback on my questionable Betavengers concept I wrote up a white ago, I have decided against all advice from my gut and accountant to go through with it. For those of you that missed it, you can watch me laugh like a Hyena at my own jokes here.

It's actually going pretty well, I'm getting to flex my extremely good and talented artistic muscles for a couple of custom graphical cultures, which honestly I'm far too proud of.
Presenting as a world first - the Thernos* culture group:

Male Face Example
Female Face Example
Thernos Children

Now the women faces are obviously hideous and don't work at all, that's solely down to local moderator Sydney who suggested that my original female portraits looked too normal. So, my very simple and barbaric response, was to staple the male chins directly onto the female portraits, which obviously look horrible, but I guess that's the appeal.

Unlike most of the other mods I have done with custom portraits, this isn't just a static image (Santa series, Thargaret Matcher, even Joris Bonson) and will allow for a decent variation on family members both male and female. There are also going to be different other cultures added to this but those are confidential until I'm happy with them.

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The next Rimworld series has been planned out for me by a member of the community with a pretty cool concept based on what we've played briefly, and the central mechanic is based around building a family of questionable ethics.

Especially appealing given that Rimworld is famous for warcrimes, organ farms, drug barons etc, and we really have never stretched the ethical side of things, mainly because of the additional difficulty that comes with harvesting organs etc.

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For the final third series, currently Mount and Blade, I wanted to go for a rotating series to keep things as fresh as possible.

One of the big concerns I always had was that the channel was known for CK2 and Rimworld, that was it, and that I was going to be trapped doing CK2, Rimworld, or similar games for the rest of eternity. I can't understate how much the positive reaction to Bannerlord has boosted my spirits in regards to this, it shows to me that we're in a position where we can start branching out and transitioning to other content, something I was pretty apprehensive to do before.

So, that's where you guys come in - after Mount & Blade comes to an end, either naturally or with the almost definite bugged out beyond salvaging, I'm going to put a poll up to the patrons with no suggestions of my own so that the community, after a couple rounds of voting, can help narrow down the next third series entirely independent of my own input.

The only issue I have with this currently is knowing how do go about implementing the poll system. I want this, by design, to be a reward to the long term supporters of the channel who have got us up the this flexible channel point, but I also want the poll to be as accessible as possible without people just joining the patreon to influence a vote - I would feel like I'm extorting people at that stage.

I'm tempted to either post it on here as an open poll, allowing any and all to contribute to it but maybe at the risk of detracting from those long term supporters, or put it to a particular tier to help keep things a bit more focused, but at the cost of locking out the community. Essentially I want to hear your thoughts and feeling on how best to approach it before I go ahead with this, but it won't be for a while anyway.

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That's all from me for now. Again, I want to thank you all for your support, either financially or through the positive messages - I'm sure things will work out fine, once I have a confirmed place to live I think that will definitely boost my spirits pretty massively.

But again, I will reiterate, especially as I've received messages from people feeling bad about this - you come first, I fully understand if you want to cancel your pledge, I have cut back on luxuries myself, and you definitely don't have to explain yourself to you, or anyone you voluntarily support, during difficult times. Though there are some absolute fucking cunts coming out of the woodwork demanding for donations on various platforms -  you are not beholden to them, they are the worst dregs of the content creators who don't deserve the time of day.

Plus, I'll always be here, even Youtube does end up crushed under the weight of its own incompetence, I'll find a way to keep things going, even if that is via the medium of very questionable modded content.

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Tales of your misdeeds are told from Delte Fere to Saw, God of Lumber,

Sam,
Mr Streamer,
Roll1D2Games.