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So, this has been bothering me for a while, but only now do I have the mind and the time to talk about it here.
Our 1-A tiers are currently named some variation of "Outerverse level" on the wiki, and they have been for several years now. Originally, we had pages laying down our considerations of what a hyperverse or an outerverse is, as these are terms we had coined ourselves and we wanted people to understand what we mean when we say, for instance, that some character has "hyperverse level attack potency." However, in the latter half of 2019, we made the decision to overhaul the extremes of our tiering system; a revision which mainly concerned tier 1, but also had implications for tier 11 and tier 2 as well. As part of this revision, we elected to delete the aforementioned explanation pages and just explain the meanings of our custom tiering terms on the tiering system page itself.
Now, if we go down to note 2 on that page, it says:
So "hyperverse" within this wiki means "higher-level universe," while "hypoverse" is the opposite, meaning "lower-level universe." Makes sense. However, notice that "outerverse" is not defined here, or anywhere. We seem to just use it as a way of saying "this structure is some level of 1-A" without defining it beyond that relation, which is bad because as an indexing site, we need to have some basis for the names and terms we use. If our users' only knowledge of what an outerverse is comes from the tier we assign the label to, then that just makes us look pretentious to outsiders.
Basically, my question is simple: Where does the name "outerverse" come from, and what does it mean beyond "it's 1-A"? Even if the answer is obvious, we still should explicitly define it somewhere so that we have a reference point for it, just as we define "hyperverse" and "hypoverse."
Our 1-A tiers are currently named some variation of "Outerverse level" on the wiki, and they have been for several years now. Originally, we had pages laying down our considerations of what a hyperverse or an outerverse is, as these are terms we had coined ourselves and we wanted people to understand what we mean when we say, for instance, that some character has "hyperverse level attack potency." However, in the latter half of 2019, we made the decision to overhaul the extremes of our tiering system; a revision which mainly concerned tier 1, but also had implications for tier 11 and tier 2 as well. As part of this revision, we elected to delete the aforementioned explanation pages and just explain the meanings of our custom tiering terms on the tiering system page itself.
Now, if we go down to note 2 on that page, it says:
So "hyperverse" within this wiki means "higher-level universe," while "hypoverse" is the opposite, meaning "lower-level universe." Makes sense. However, notice that "outerverse" is not defined here, or anywhere. We seem to just use it as a way of saying "this structure is some level of 1-A" without defining it beyond that relation, which is bad because as an indexing site, we need to have some basis for the names and terms we use. If our users' only knowledge of what an outerverse is comes from the tier we assign the label to, then that just makes us look pretentious to outsiders.
Basically, my question is simple: Where does the name "outerverse" come from, and what does it mean beyond "it's 1-A"? Even if the answer is obvious, we still should explicitly define it somewhere so that we have a reference point for it, just as we define "hyperverse" and "hypoverse."
