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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 5845245" data-attributes="member: 1288">Honestly, I think that getting into five &quot;tiers&quot; of gameplay is a bit much. I'm not crazy about even having four, but I think KM's distinctions are solid enough that I'm okay with it.The problem with any tier system, though, is that gameplay doesn't actually change between one level and the next. It's a lot more gradual. Each tier is really a continuum, not a point, and it varies by group. But since there's no real good way to model that, I think a division of three or four is the right way to go.I also think that there's no need for the tiers to all be of the same level. Using KM's example (and assuming, just for the sake of argument, 30 total levels), I can see the Common Tier only incorporating levels 1-5. (Or even less.) Adventurer and Heroic, 10 each. Epic 26-30.Or something like that. The precise spread doesn't matter so much as the idea that the length of the tier should be determined by what's thematically appropriate, not by a requirement to have them all be identical. And I think it's safe to say that once you've got even a few levels under your belt, you're beyond the Common Tier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 5845245, member: 1288"] Honestly, I think that getting into five "tiers" of gameplay is a bit much. I'm not [I]crazy[/I] about even having four, but I think KM's distinctions are solid enough that I'm okay with it. The problem with any tier system, though, is that gameplay doesn't actually change between one level and the next. It's a lot more gradual. Each tier is really a continuum, not a point, and it varies by group. But since there's no real good way to model that, I think a division of three or four is the right way to go. I also think that there's no need for the tiers to all be of the same level. Using KM's example (and assuming, just for the sake of argument, 30 total levels), I can see the Common Tier only incorporating levels 1-5. (Or even less.) Adventurer and Heroic, 10 each. Epic 26-30. Or something like that. The precise spread doesn't matter so much as the idea that the length of the tier should be determined by what's thematically appropriate, not by a requirement to have them all be identical. And I think it's safe to say that once you've got even a few levels under your belt, you're beyond the Common Tier. [/QUOTE]

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