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Stage 0 - The player before entering Sburb. Pre-entry. No echeladder climbing juuuust yet.
Stage 1 - You've entered the Medium, and beat your first imps! You're properly on the Echeladder!
Stage 2 - You've done some Echeladder climbing, and been in the game for a bit. Gone through a gate or two.
Stage 3 - More Echeladder climbing, more gate hopping. Have you met up with any of the other players yet?
Stage 4 - Further climbing, and more damn gates. Damn you're getting around!
Stage 5 - You've unlocked all the gates, climbed as high as you can on the Echeladder. What now?
Stage 6 - God Tier.