Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1633483-20151107174702/@comment-25613888-20151115151529

Ghelæ wrote: The Class scale was an old method of classifying empires that existed as an alternative to the Tier scale. There were quite a few differences, and essentially all but one - Classes counted up so 0 was no technology, while Tiers counted down so 0 includes everything above some level - were merged into the Tier scale making the Class scale essentially redundant.

In future, it would be better to come to IRC to ask questions like these rather than add off-topic comments to a thread like this. When people are active, you'll usually get a response within a few minut