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Street Justice pros: Punches Street Justice cons: Weak on non-Stalkers

Are you perhaps familiar with the Rune of Purification? https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=temporary_powers.day_job_powers.archaelogist_rune

Sounds like they're conflating events. In 2019, the secret server was revealed, a free server ran for like 3 days, and got shut down by a legal threat. I don't know who was running it, but apparently the legal threat was a hoax that thoroughly spooked them so they shut it down. Homecoming started up like 5 days later. Seems like WhatCulture confused HC getting the official license with them starting up.

That's Cityo Fheroes, the guy the game was named after.

The HC wiki should have up-to-date lists of power icons for macros. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Macro_image_(Slash_Command)

My issue with Major Benjamin's writing is that while it's perfectly believable that a real-life bigot would out themselves as an idiot while thinking they're making a great point, fiction should strive to be a little more realistic than that.

Vorpal Judgement has an absolutely massive area of effect, far larger than any other cone in the game. I suspect that, on more modest cones like Psychic Scream and Energy Torrent, you'd have a much harder time hitting anything if the target requirement were removed.

So, I think there's an important factor being missed in this discussion when phrases like t1, t2 power get thrown around. Jab may be in the first spot in the power list for Super Strength, but in terms of melee set balance, it is not, in fact, a tier 1 attack. Punch is the t1 attack in Super Strength. In most melee sets, a tier 1 attack has a recharge (and corresponding damage) of 3-4 seconds, and a tier 2 attack has a recharge of 5-8 seconds. With their respective recharges, Jab, Punch, and Haymaker are all effectively one tier lower than their position in the list of Super Strength powers would imply. When you hear it said that the powers in Super Strength are weaker than they should be because of Rage, this is precisely what that means. With this in mind, the comparison to Fighting pool powers doesn't seem so stark for Super Strength. Boxing and Kick are both effectively t1 powers, and they don't pull ahead of Punch, Super Strength's "true" t1, until all 3 Fighting attacks are owned. The same is true of Cross Punch and Haymaker. In any other comparison between sets Rage would easily make up the difference, but in this case the other powers are pool powers and so they get the benefit from Rage as well.

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Yes.

It sounds like you might be capped on the number of open arcs you can have.

I think I'd rather talk about my feelings regarding loaded questions

This is a nice idea in theory that quickly becomes impractical, as @Psyonico points out above.

What happens to Statesman's powers is already shown in Signature Story Arc 2, Pandora's Box.

I don't think tying the effects of powers to something random and uncontrollable like a hit check is a very good idea, but a sort of Yin-Yang set where every power has two possible effects, where you switch between them with a toggle or something, could be cool.