<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">PSA About Class &amp; Power Creep</span></span></strong></div>There have been some questions about the number of "Class 5" characters in the game in relation to the lower classes. A couple of voices have reached out with worry that their characters might be over shadowed and or made irrelevant by these "big power houses". I want to first assure everyone that power creep is something that I have been watching since the very first character submission into the game and it's something that I'll be watching very closely as more characters roll in. At no point in the game will I allow the "crazy powerful" become the driving force of the game - and for the most part characters in general will stay around Class 3, with 2 & 4 being the common off shoots of that. No one will have their character forever over shadowed because of bigger badder people - and if a point comes along where you feel like you're not getting enough chance to shine I implore you to get ahold of me so we can figure it out... But it won't happen, so you don't need to worry about it!<br/><br/>In context of how many Class 5's there are at a glance, I'm going to use Flower's character Billie Tucker, aka Worm, as an example. Worm is listed as a Class 5 Evolved because of the nature of her power - it allows her to control high priority targets and body hop away from death. In reality Worm is closer to a Class 3 (maybe class 4, depending on who she's gotten into) character. However her threat level, and the resources needed to deal with her are much higher then other Class 3's simply because of what her power can do. Worm is by no means a powerhouse that can rampantly contend with "true Class 5" Evolved. At the time of this announcement there are seven Class 5 characters, and only three of those are "true Class 5".<br/><br/>In the end the point is that Class is much more a number that Tac 6 assigns to characters then it is a true judgement of anything else. While it is used by me to determine some things about characters in the story, don't let that number alone scare you. I've spoken with each writer at reasonable length about their characters powers and what not. There will be plenty of awesome to go around, and currently I would say that the game is on the bell curve that's appropriate (low 1 & 5, medium 2 & 4, high 3).<br/><br/>Thank you all, and if there are any further questions about class, your character power, threat levels... Or what not. Send them to me and I'll do my best to help.