When looking at Patreon polls you see the flat votes, meaning everyone from a random visitor to a long-term patron adds +1 to the counter. So to give it more sense the final voting results are re-calculated in a spreadsheet using the ‘voting power’, which is proportional to patrons’ total pledge. Also if you vote for multiple options at once your ‘power’ is split between your choices. This way there is some additional strategic element when applying your vote and people who support MyJLC for longer have more influence.
Each release I start with a few features needed as a part of my global plan. Then I begin to build things from the winners list from the highest to lowest score until ‘Ah, players are waiting for too long, it’s time to release!’
Note that my bucket list is much longer than Patreon technically allows, so I’m trying to provide some rotation of features, putting the least voted things on cooldown.