Episode payment question-

[J.Miley]

This is what was explained in the inital post.

@Liz

Gem choices in User Stories will have automatic pricing.
The community was worried that prices for gem choices would be too high so in community authored stories these choices will have prices set automatically. For now, prices will be capped at 10 gems or less. During the rollout phase a small number of you (2.5%) will see these prices as 15 gems, you will also not see the tiered gem choices described below.

While a User Story with gem choices is a ‘hidden gem’ the choices will be even cheaper. If a story has less than 10k reads, gem choices will be only 2 gems. When a story has between 10k and 100k reads, gem choices will be 5 gems. Once a story gets over 100k reads, gem choices will be 10 gems. We don’t want gem choices to discourage readers from enjoying great new stories and we recognize that for authors there may be a bit of a learning curve in writing them.