If you've been following the last couple of economic updates, they have all sadly been in the red with the game losing money. While I am doing a part time work-for-hire job to make up for this loss currently, this can't go on forever.
So while I hate having to ask people for money, I have been thinking about doing a month where I really promote the Patreon to see if we can push it up enough that can get the game back to steadily be in the green.To make this more interesting than me just spamming everyone with the Patreon, I've considering during a pledge drive where every Patreon will unlock some rewards by the end of the month if the total Patreon pledge hit specific goals. This should hopefully motivate more people to back the Patreon, with some sticking around after the drive as well. The drive could also be combined with a discount on new pledges.
So I'm currently wondering if people think it's a good idea, what the goal should be and what rewards would make sense.
My current idea would be have a goal of 5k a month, which would make the game turn a profit even if some drop off. Through there could potential be an even higher stretch goal with some extra fancy award.As for rewards, I'm thinking maybe an unique badge for every Patroen (even if goal isn't reached), and maybe an avatar if the goal is reached, through something more general everyone want to use could be better...
But let me know in the comments what you think of the idea, and if you have any suggestions for what the rewards could be. It's not something I'm planning to do straight away, so feel free to suggest stuff that aren't in the game right now.