The boards compare; the levels measure. The two are kept deliberately apart.
- Board modes: Adventure (game skills) · Economy (these levels) · War (factions).
- Periods: the month (everyone starts from zero — every month is anyone's month) · the year · all time · sealed seasonal archives.
- Boards are per industry: the best trader of the month and the best producer of the month are different tables. A single ladder of everything does not exist on purpose.
- At season's end the rating is archived into the Chronicle and opens fresh.