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As a different data point I've earned 377xp so far in PFS2 and my 11 characters with xp are...
7,6,4,4,4,3,3,2,2,2,1
I can't play the current special at 7-8 since my only character in that tier played it in 3-6.
For me personally I have no need of further higher tiers yet, that said I think a 7-10 for the season finale in about 4 months makes a lot of sense.
Venture-Agent, California—Silicon Valley
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Even if no one at launch plays that subtier, adding the highest possible level for a special seems like a no brainer to me in the future proofing category.Adding a higher tier means more word count and development time and also subdivides the players more than the population may be able to reasonably support at any Con in the next year where this would likely be played. There are costs to what you're suggesting, so it's definitely not a "no brainer."
They could forgo levels 1-2 this time, not all specials need to allow low levels in. Though using Gallowspire's levels 5-16 as an example, having a massive range of levels isn't something that hasn't been done before.
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What boggles my mind (I understand it is a play style choice), is watching people play 5-8s with levels 5s and 6s. 3-6s in that same vein. There are a limited number of them still, why waste (my opinion) the credit to which one cannot gain at the higher level?
That said, I play with a crew of 3 other players at the same xp that have revolving GMs. With the 4 of us coordinating, it is fairly easy to play new high level content. We started slow tracking after hitting 8 so that we could continue playing. We are a little over halfway into 8 without any AP credit being applied to the characters. Because of this, I do not completely understand how more people are not at the 8+ range. We play once or twice per month at most, so not overly much by any stretch.
It'd be nice to get a 9-10 tier for the special, but I won't be broken up about it. We have to play at a convention to play it so there is a little less enthusiasm. Playing with random other players and GMs has been more miss than hit in my experience. So we will patiently await new material, however long it takes to come out.
The moral here, based on my personal experience, is to organize a smaller crew to enjoy high level content with. It may take a bit to organize, but there is less material so the slowness of the process fits the availability. Find peeps you enjoy playing with and a GM you enjoy running with and organize a once a month. Leave the 6- scenarios to the regularly organizing lodges.
Plus, if you organize your own higher level crew, you can take your time and not be constrained by convention or lodge limitations.
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Because not everyone is looking to optimize their character growth and just wants to play instead.
While I can understand that, I can solidly say that one can do both.
I'm at 7 level 6's, from GM/AP/Player credit, etc. Yes I've been playing 5-8s on them, but I've been wanting to keep my options open for which stories they want to engage with. so staying in the 5-6 range for as long as possible has been a goal of mine.
I really can empathize with that desire. However, what stops me from going that route is the inevitability of being over level for a segment of the story. It has happened and will continue to happen. With that inevitability, I will likely find the scenarios as I play through them the first time and then use replays to experience them all with 1 character. Either that or take a few year playing hiatus to GM and find the series and then play on 1 character. Those are the only ways I can think of to really get a whole story on 1 character. (*cough* Scarab Sages *cough*cough*)
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They could forgo levels 1-2 this time, not all specials need to allow low levels in. Though using Gallowspire's levels 5-16 as an example, having a massive range of levels isn't something that hasn't been done before.Even if no one at launch plays that subtier, adding the highest possible level for a special seems like a no brainer to me in the future proofing category.Adding a higher tier means more word count and development time and also subdivides the players more than the population may be able to reasonably support at any Con in the next year where this would likely be played. There are costs to what you're suggesting, so it's definitely not a "no brainer."
Level 1-2 is a must for 2e specials.
The reason the level range ran from 5-16 for Gallowspire was because it was the final special for 1e. It was intended to be difficult. I was at the special at GenCon and I remember when it was asked for the people how had characters killed to raise their hands. Well over a third, if not a quarter, of the room raised their hands, mine included. And I was at a 15-16 tier table with one of my favorite GMs playing my favorite character. We lost 3 characters on the same round in that adventure.
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Yeah, I wouldn't leave out 1-2 in what is effectively the second special for 2E (since 2-11 would have been the first).
It would be great to have a 9-10 tier. I'll have a character to 9 soon. But I'd also be fine if they left it off.
There seemed to be a good amount of effort that went into making the different tiers feel different in 2-01. I don't think they were just the same encounter with different enemies (or more of the same enemies or templated versions of those enemies) like was very common in PFS1. If I had to choose between having a 9-10 tier and having 3 or 4 distinct lower level tiers that can all be played once, I would choose the latter.
What I'd like more than a 9-10 tier is for 3-4 and 5-6 to be split out so everything isn't lumped into 3-6. If 9-10 does get included, I suspect it might be 7-10 and run into some of the same issues 3-6 did, like confusion around what could be replayed or having to include scaling within the tier.