Premium "forces" you to pay.

Patreon let's people leech, depending on others to give several dollars a month, when the translator would be much better off if
everyone just gave one small dollar a month

sunstrike It is not the best way to solve the problem, but I only read one premium novel, RTW, so I am just saving all my spirit stones for that and watching adds for all my other novels. I didn't bother saving up any of my stones and only have about 80 left.

    ImperfectInfinity
    17 chapter / week. premium chapter cost 8 spirit stones. it means you need around 17x8= 136 spirit stones/ week
    while daily check in only gives you 8-12 spirit stones. if the average spirit stones you got per days is 10 spirit stones. in a week you only got 70 spirit stones. its still not enough spirit stones. with 70 spirit stones you only got 8.75 chapter/week, while free user still got 7 chapter a week.
    its better to wait and dont waste your spirit stones on premium chapter

      sunstrike daily check in give you at least 16-20 for me. I guess level matters too? Voting power stone and energy stone should give you at least 10 regardless of level though

        sunstrike You get 5 spirit stones for voting for the power rankings and 5 for voting for the next novel to be released, bringing total possible daily free stones to about 20 a day. Just enough.

        Be careful when saving though. Always check your spirit stone expiration. I just recently noticed this. Some of my spirit stones expire in 12 days. Dunno if it’s a new thing or has been happening since I started in Qidian.

          Lyle_Walt Good advice. I have less than 100 though so I don't think it will really affect me too much, If it gets to the point where I'm over 100 I will just start spending them on all the chapters I read. There is no point in hoarding them when they only serve one purpose.

            N0xiety I know what you mean.
            my point is that if I pay 50$ I will only get 10 chapters in advance on Patreon.

            But if I pay 50$ on premium I will get 625 chapter in advance.

            10 chapters VS 625 chapters

            That is why I prefer premium than Patreon.

            PS.I want free chapter too but my reason told I have to pay for them too.

              Lyle_Walt if I'm from diqian that would be good.because I would get paid.

              The truth is I'm not.

              I just said what I thought.

                Lyle_Walt the truth I want that too

                But TL Editor auther qidian staff ,you want them to work for nothing? You should get paid property enough for full time job.

                  Lomacris lol I just want more chapter that's it.

                  Do you really think qidian would hire someone like me that can't write English well enough?

                    natto that is a funny comment because some translations here are barely better than MTL, the difference between the quality is like heavens and earth when comparing some work, like how RTW early chapters when it was on Volare and the earliest chapter when it first got on qidian (I forgot the numbers, was it around chapter 280 or so?) . Now it's okeish

                    That said I kind of agree with you on the prices of patreon... that one time I checked it out for IRAS back when it was on Volare I almost spat out blood at seeing 50 bucks for 10 chapters, that's a Tazmo level of greedy for a supposedly passion project

                    Hence I'm relatively happy with the current model, "relatively" because it could be so much worse and I knew from the start that hoping it would stay free would only be a pipe dream

                      ciopo >>>tazmo

                      Wow

                      That's a name I thought I won't be hearing anymore after all these years

                        I think that people don’t complain about Patreon is because it is a tried and tested system that has been running for many years?

                        All the TLs I see have a Patreon running xD

                          natto It's precisely because you can't speak English very well that I think you are from qidian

                            Lomacris lol you can think what ever you want

                            But the truth still the truth

                              natto thats why this system suck for free readers and people who occasionally tip for the translator. with 50$ i prefer buy the real book for my collection than some advanced chapter.
                              yes. with 50$ you can get 625 chapter in advance, but once you run out of ss, you need to wait 15 months to be able to read the chapter for free again(with the calculation 10 free chapter/week). and if you cant wait that long, you need to buy another spirit stones, thats why its like a blackhole, its just like a drugs, its so addictive, once you try it, you cant stop.

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