Talk:General Discussion/@comment-68.39.67.76-20140605010152/@comment-24516216-20140605044137

The upscale is random... ie. 2-5 scaled up at Lvl 100...

The scale up threshold is set according to the difficulty of the scale up. I wouldn't worry too much about the scale up, it's meant to give higher level players an appropriate challenge, and not make it impossible for them. If you keep yourself below a certain HQ threshold, it also means you're not leveling your ships either. I actually turned Lvl80 during the last event, and thought about giving up on E-5, but I knew I would regret it if I didn't give it my best, and in the end, cleared E-5.