Your tier rewards starts the day you pay your first payment, and connect your Discord with Patreon. Within an hour your Special status name tag will appear. Once that happens we can assist you with your rewards. (For the Special Tag in Conan, and admin has to toggle that for you. Please drop us a support ticket in Discord)
At the first of the month when Patreon takes its payments, we can take up to 5 extra days to get our bookkeeping sheet updated. Once that is done you can then put in a ticket for your reward.
Yes you can up your level.. Just go to the tier you want, and it will only take what you owe in difference till the 1st. of the next month.
Patreon's may select any game platform they play on for their monthly perk. You may also get it in any other game besides your main game if you choose to.
There are special rules around the "Full Monty Tek Forge in ARK", please see these rules: