You don't have to offer anything as extra content on Patreon.

There's one important caveat to that idea CJ - if credits can be transferred between accounts in any way at all they can never be refunded or otherwise converted into cash. There's a ton of money laundering laws it'd run foul of. There are some legal problems with contests for virtual cash where there's a stake involved even without withdrawal opportunities, and the need for multi-account cheat-proofing would be required. You'd also need an official (ie part of the MFN staff) to oversee the contest from an impartial standpoint...

As cool an idea as it might seem at first glance, you can probably file the fallout from it as "another reason we can't have nice things."

An official pay-to-enter league with no trading permitted, no rules regarding exploitative play and a trophy rather than credits as the prize might work, but even then the amount of griping it would generate would be excessive.

Ya Cjfred68 I have run across the money league stuff in the sim racing world and in the end it isnt pretty. It's a very slippery slope. Make sure to cover your **** a couple times over.

The one obvious thing that we haven't mentioned is adding an anti-ad blocking filter to the website.

Good idea. Prompt users to accept ads or pay for a subscription

Or quit...the only way I would continue to play is if JDB stopped using whatever malware propagating ad widget he currently uses.