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I thought all the other search providers still used either Google's or Bing's indexes anyway, i.e. regardless of one's choice of browser there is still an unavoidable tie-in with either Google or Bing in the background. Did this change, or have I just misunderstood all along?

You must be new to The Internet. So let me be the first to welcome you, and to explain the first rule of any online chat forum: "If other people like something in a different way than you like it, then it is your sacred duty to spend all your waking hours writing walls of text to convince them that they are wrong." 😁

It has been a while since I read the Lore AMA session transcripts with the ex-dev team, so at the risk of misremembering, I think the intended future use for Kallisti Wharf was related to the... These arcs would take place in KW and would be doable by both heroes and villians, similar to the ones in RWZ and the other co-op zones, hence KW needed to be accessible for both red- and bluesiders. If I have this wrong, I am sure someone else who has read the Lore AMA more recently can correct me.

Probably so obvious that you have already looked into it, but just in case: Is there a dedicated Discord channel for AE writers and -fans? If so, advertising in that channel might help get a few more players for each week's team.

9 posts later, and no one has mentioned creating an alt named SuperMayor yet?!

Yes, they are. Guess I should have made that clear in my OP. Yes, that is exactly how it shows. Also, an update: After digging around in the files, I am 99% certain that the newer of the two Game Folders, "HC", was created on 12 December 2024. Which would be the same date that my Windows version got upgraded and I couldn't find a bunch of the stuff I had already installed => Had to reinstall a bunch of programs to my PC, one of those programs being CoH Homecoming. Now it seems CoH was still there all along, I just wasn't seeing it 😞 So the mystery is solved, at least - the reason I had a "HC" as well as a "Homecoming" game install is that I put both of them there myself! Now I am curious as to how/why the game installer decided that the newer of the two installs should be named "HC" when the default naming is "Homecoming", but that is idle speculation and not really worth spending any more time on. Many thanks for the help, @UltraAlt and @lemming !!

Until recently, my CoH install was located at C:/Games/Homecoming. But at some point, a new directory named C:Games/HC has been created. And at some point - possibly at the same time but I have no way of knowing that - the game started using the game files in the HC directory. I only discovered the change in directories when trying to load an old costume in the character creator and finding zero saved costumes. It has been months since I made a new costume, so I don't know when the change happened. All my saved costumes are still there, but in the old Homecoming directory. This is Homecoming's own HC launcher, btw, not ol' Tequila. Anyway, I am not super worried about this, because the game runs just fine. I am merely wondering if this change - creation of a new game directory - happened to everyone else as well? I hope the explanation makes sense. I am not particularly IT savvy, so I might be using the wrong terminology here.

There are a few cases where a goldside contact directs you to kill an NPC who is himself a story arc contact, leading to the problem where you cannot obtain missions from Contact X because you have previously killed Contact X as part of Contact Y's story arc. There are only two such cases AFAIK, and they are only a problem if you intend to run all arcs from all contacts, Resistance as well as Loyalist. If that is the case, you can avoid all such conflicts by following this guide: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Apparition's_Complete_Guide_to_Praetoria. There are several other such guides on this forum, but Apparition's is the one I personally prefer. YMMV and all that. If you want to be certain of being able to do Bobcat - or rather, do Bobcat's story arc - you can always do another arc after Belladonna Vetrano and choose the Loyalist ending to go back to being a Loyalist. Which is what you should do anyway, because the Resistance are filthy scum who do not appreciate how awesome life is in Praetoria and therefore want to destroy all of the Emperor's great works. All hail our Emperor Cole!

Why luck charms? They were crazy valuable back on Live, but these days thanks to auction house bucketing they are no better than any other common salvage.

Yup, being able to use our t9 primary on lvl 20ish content was a huge positive change. Many of my favorite TF/SF/arcs are in the 20s range, so being able to use the chars which pretty much need their t9 to be worthwhile, opened up a lot of content for those chars. Great thinking by whichever dev came up with that idea.

It saves the PPD a ton of money in salary, because the cops are willing to work for free when they get the hazard zone posting.😉

For simplicity's sake I will simply point you to the HomeComing wiki which explains attuning quite well IMO. Edit: ...and here is the link which I forgot the first time around: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Attuned They are called enhancements, btw, not enchantments. Common mistake and no big deal, we all can figure out what you meant, but now you know. I always buy my enhancements as the attuned version, except for purple- and PvP enhancements which don't benefit from attuning.

Anti-Matter is my favorite Praetorian NPC. It took some pretty damn good writing to make an already-known archvillain into a troubled and somewhat pitiable, relatable person. Others Receiving Votes (by me) were WarDog (the story makes you understand why he does what he does, even if you think what he does is heinous) and the aforementioned Interrogator Kang (I always with him, but I always feel bad about doing it).

I stand corrected. As mentioned above, I was sure Power contacts would still talk to Resistance chars and vice versa, even though have never actually bothered to test it. But I happen to have a lvl 13 goldsider who is Resistance aligned at the moment, so I tested Apogee's statement by walking up to Mr. G (as he stands in the street, i.e. is not locked behind a no-access area), and sure enough, the G-man would only say "I believe the path you've taken doesn't suit our goals, [charactername]. Let's speak again if you've had a change of heart, yes, let us indeed speak again." Thanks for the correction, @Apogee

Good observation, @CYPHERPUNK, and as the starter of this thread I thank you for noticing 🙂 But we all know that every CoX forum thread invariably ends up getting derailed by a few people pursuing their pet peeves, so I kind of figured something like this would happen. The thread had a good run already - I am at peace with whatever happens to it now 🙂