We have a winner! Alert reader mwk found the wrong item in yesterday’s post:

1.55 days per puzzle, 0.644 puzzles per day.

What, you thought it was the presidential slash fiction thing? Pfft, that’s nothing compared to a math error.

Today’s Homestuck Kickstarter update is going to look at tiers and supporter counts. One may recall from when the goal was met back on 5 September, there was a breakdown on supporters. One may also recall that a day later, one of those $5000¹ backers bumped up to $10,000. I’d like to show what the numbers are like as this piece is being written; to make comparisons easier, I’ll be repeating the numbers from the 5th, with new values/items interleaved in boldface:

• Backers: 7701
  Backers: 12,369
• Total raised: $700,049
  Total raised: $1,229,969
• Dollars per backer: $90.95
  Dollars per backer: $99.44
• Dollars per hour: $21,819.60
  Dollars per hour: $5124.87

• $15 and up: 2118
  $15 and up: 3489
• $25 and up: 1693
  $25 and up: 2586
• $55 and up: 794
  $55 and up: 1152
• $80 and up: 280

  $80 and up: 406

• $105 and up (unlimited): 579
  $105 and up (unlimited): 793
• $105 and up (limited reward #1): 671 of 1000
  $105 and up (limited reward #1): 1202 of 1500
• $105 and up (limited reward #2): 132 of 1000
  $105 and up (limited reward #2): 187 of 1000
  $130 and up: 286
• $180 and up: 84
  $180 and up (reward #1): 195
  $180 and up (reward #2): 40
  $180 and up (reward #3): 107
• $255 and up (unlimited): 141
  $255 and up (unlimited): 165
• $255 and up (limited reward): 600 of 600
  $255 and up (limited reward): 700 of 700
  $330 and up: 52
• $405 and up (limited reward): 458 of 1000
  $405 and up (limited reward): 415 of 750
  $505 and up (limited reward): 309 of 750
  $1000 and up (limited reward): 80 of 100
• $5000 and up (limited reward): 3 of 25
  $5000 and up (limited reward): 2 of 25
• $10,000 and up (limited reward): 0 of 10
  $10,000 and up (limited reward): 2 of 10
• No reports of God Tier rewards 2 ($100K) through 6 ($1B) yet
  No reports of God Tier rewards 2 ($100K) through 6 ($1B) yet

Smart moves by Andrew Hussie and the Mysterious Kickstarting Genius advising him:

• Limited rewards at naturally-occurring popular tiers ($105, $255) were expanded to pull in more support (the latter of which was sold out, and then promptly did so again after expansion)
• New tier at $330 added, incrementally adding to the value of the unlimited $255 tier
• The popular but stalled limited reward at $405 was reduced from a limit of 1000 to 750, but tiers at $505 and $1000 incorporating the high-demand items from the $405 tier were added; although 43 backers dropped at the $405 level, there were nearly 400 backers added at those new, higher tiers for a net increase of nearly $220,000
• Recognition that this project doesn’t adhere to the normal rules of high-value tiers; as of this writing, 393 people have pledged $500 or more, for a total of $266,045, or 21.6% of all money raised from 3.2% of all backers

We’re a third of the way through the campaign, in the doldrums section where there’s little movement (relatively speaking — on the slowest full day of the campaign so far, Hussie raised more than $26,000), and the right tier adjustments could cause the sudden uptick that’s often seen on runaway successful Kickstarts. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quarter or more of the total raised in the last three or four days.

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¹ All dollar figures are in US currency.