Good job, Hydra! Well explained and all points present, both positive, and negative.

I see that some points I was making in our discussion about power creep are here, so good to know we see things in same way in the end. 

Very nice explanation of what the Power Level does, thank you very much :-)

Very nice Hydra, even I learned a bit from that. I think the Devs should pin this.

Just wanted to point out a small error you made. Possibly you just misspoke. There are not 5 "planets" in the subsystem, there are 5 star systems, each with a number of planets. Other than that, well done !

Watched, and watched your inflation rant...

Some of us just want the weapon we like to remain as viable as the rest of the weapons we have that stay relevant so we can keep playing in our chosen playstyle. :P

Oh yeah, I'm gonna give you a hard time, the chainsword is NEVER GONNA DIE!

Honestly though, ribbing aside, I've noticed less inflation issues so far than, say... Diablo 2, Torchlight 2... etc. While there are a couple cases of wanting to rush T2 for an improved version of something (in my case, storm shield and chainsword), largely I've been content keeping the same equipment for each character and have been able to do so. So a lot of my itemization complaints are solely due to the fact that one or two pieces of kit out of the whole lot doesn't stay relevant towards the end of a tier while the rest does. Realistically, I hate having to swap my gear every ten levels, let alone how often it happened in the Diablo series. Might be a certain stat is increased that I like keeping up, or a style (like the chainsword's "fast" cleave vs. much slower cleaves), or it might be as silly as just liking the look of a piece of gear.

That's more what I meant by my statement, pardon... I'm still rather fried from the week.

I'm not seeing the sort of inflation requiring forced gear change every few levels that I normally see in an ARPG, outside of that last hump where you have to discard stats to bump up over into the next tier which is, IMO, a mistake. Discarding build relevant stats for the sake of changing a modifier strikes me as problematic; hopefully later we'll be able to force things like DR and Deflect so that we won't feel as though we're stuck when it comes time to bump up to the next power level.

THANK YOU! Also, subbing to your channel.

Mighty Snakefist, in his Wisdom, thinks that more crafting options would allow a smooth transition.

Actually, it was more of a keen "ear". So, just to clarify:

Caligari Sector,

Tenebra Sub-Sector,

5 Star Systems, each with several planets.

Isn't it more of weapon balance issue then? For example dual las pistols are crap, dual bolt pistols rock.