no need to pay man, your already in the mastermind :)

overall, your profile pictures are right about average. There not bad but not special either. LA is a very competitve city so while average might get you 3-4 lays a month in other cities. In LA average can be difficult. The point that im trying to make is it will be helpful to up the quality of your profile photos. Ideally with some cool activity pics where you are dress well (no loos fitting shirt or shorts). Out of your current picutres i would say #3 should go because its worse than the others

another big piece of advice is that the more you sexually screen the less flaking you'll have. It may sound a bit counter initutive. But its true. Your profile right now has 0 screening of any kind. Ideally i would like to see you get a good shirtless pic in there to screen with the photos. And a more balsy bio. Throw the word "Dominant" in there. Also do you speak any other languages?

Los Angeles is definitely a tougher area to meet girls in and the competition is steeper. Often, when you go to less renowned cities outside of LA the dating scene shifts and it doesn't become "easier" per se but the competition is lessened and you are able to get better results with similar-looking girls (in my experience anyway). Your pictures are decent. The first one and the fifth are your best, rock climbing is cool and it seems like it's something your passionate about so don't leave that picture for last. Anyway, as for 2, ones with girls tend to not do great on tinder so I would reconsider, and 3 and 4, all look very posed. Your expression on those two looks a little strange as well and you may benefit from taking more candid photos or you doing different activities, maybe with a pet? (If that's applicable).

Moreover, your text game is pretty good, you're using takeaways correctly and investing the right amount. It's hard for me to break specific things down and give you more individual advice when you post all of the interactions at once. The most general points I can make as of right now are probably:

1 - Before you say things like "When are you free for a walk" try to soft close and get her to agree to the general idea of you hanging out ie: "We should go on a walk sometime" then you hard close by asking her when she's free and move it to the number etc.

2 - When you rengage its' best to use a takeaway instead of "Happy NYE" because when you use a takeaway you're sort of calling out her behavior instead of rewarding her for not responding so to speak

3 - Get the number and then lock down a specific time/date, you're much more likely to get a date like that because not only is the number more personal but it differentiates you from everyone else. There might be 300+ she's talking to on tinder but maybe only 10-20 she's texting.

Finally, your bio is ok. How you can improve is by sexualizing and being bolder. You want to be different than all the other boring dudes out there, your bio right now is very standard and honestly quite boring. Spice things up a little. Goodluck brother.

Hope this helps and sorry if I was harsh.