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What does that say about Metronome and the Clockwork Seers?

You forgot about Psychonauts.

Depending on your definition of empire. If you just mean beyond Praetoria (City) then I'm apt to agree, if you mean beyond the influence of Cole, I'm apt to disagree. And besides, there're bigger hints than that, like world leaders visiting Praetoria City (which according to Lore are fully supportive of Cole). I think it is a fairly safe assumption that each world leader has under them at least a functioning city of each still existing country.

On a borderline offtopic note, it's nice to compare Praetoria to 4U city.

Some would say that Praetoria City itself is more or less Syndicate controlled, given that the Syndicate seems to have a controlling interest in most/all business related activities, and seems to have significant infiltration in other related activities like research. So I wouldn't directly take information regarding Syndicate controlled cities to be the Syndicate actually leading them.

Funny, I find that a lot of times Ambushes totally get lost and give up looking for me. Majority of them are syndicate ones though, so it may be some AI issue specific to Syndicate than actually not targetting me.

No one said that hospital is anywhere close, and thus far, we really haven't seen the full effect of Cole's influence on the whole world, only on Praetoria (City).

Also, in terms of the Resistance escorting people outside the city, we already know that there are people living beyond the jurisdiction of Praetoria City without sonic walls; Belladonna Vetrano's family was one of them, before Chimera "liberated" BV. Both BV and Chimera confirms this, so there's no reason to believe an unreliable narrator is involved, unless BV is somehow mentally controlled.

General contacts AFAIK doesn't stop giving missions until you've outlevelled them, they seem to have a core set of random missions, along with 1-3 story arcs. Once you get an arc the contact will continue to give you missions for that arc even if you're outlevelled. There're some special contacts which contact you though, and may follow different rules.

As for a guide, Paragon Wiki is generally updated save for very recently added content.

I don't really count group fly, since that defeats the point of having super jump (SS could be argued as stealth power.. I guess we can replace the jumping pool instead of fighting (fighting uses the least end of the pools though)

Also, the scrapper can only run 19, not 20.

if we did replace leaping with fly, the end consumption of all non-wasted toggles would be 9.67 pre-enhancement.

Correction: It should be" Do you use Aim once every 10 seconds IN COMBAT. This is the key factor. Only when in combat does the proc matter, so talking about Aim outside of combat is just as wasted as a buildup trigger outside of combat. There's also the minor matter of timing Aim for use with the recharge of high damage powers, but the moment you have to use said high damage powers more than once each fight, the factors start to favor the proc in Leadership.

Having said that, this would then totally be dependent on these key factors:
1) How long each combat lasts.
2) Combat cycle of each combat.
3) Is Aim recharged between each combat.

Granted having said all that, it's unlikely for Aim to be recharged each fight and major use of high damage powers and for each fight to last shorter than 10 seconds. (an argument can be made for the BU/SC/LR combo because of point that BU would coincide almost perfectly with SC and LR, though that has the issue of overbuff anyway.)

There is only one build which I would consider the buildup proc in Aim: Archery builds. Chances are you'll use Aim with RoA, and the timing's not quite so bad to link them together. In this case, it may make sense to fit all the +damage abilities to work with RoA for better burst damage in exchange for lesser ST damage. (ST damage would be lesser because the ST attacks would cycle more than once in a 10 second cycle and are more often used in fights which last longer than 10 seconds.)

1) Due to how pseudo pet powers work, Elec Shield brutes are much weaker than elec shield scrapper.
2) Elec Shield Scrappers and Brutes hit it's stride at about 36/37 (when LR can be slotted up). It's Tankers which gets their second nuke late (thus hitting it's stride at 39/40). There's for all intents and purposes no builds which hits it's stride at the point a power is picked, simply because you still need to slot it up. Only one exception: Masterminds at lvl 32, since the pet upgrade does not require slotting for full effect.

Mainly cause PBAoE is generally superior to melee cones in dealing AoE damage. Also, both Elec and Spines have more AoE attacks and more AoE attacks which hits 10 or more targets.

I don't think it's autohit though, which means capped def would likely make it miss most of the time, I think.

Sure you can. Street sweep to lv 4, and play repeatable missions to lv 20.

I understand the threat level. But I was the only one attacking the mob when it decided to attack one of my pets instead (pets were facing away, so no AoEs could've hit the mob accidently). Does threat leach between linked mobs?

I can't remember who did this summing up, but it sounds just about right to me:

Loyalist Power: Rogue
Loyalist Responsibility: Hero
Resistance Warden: Vigilante
Resistance Crusader: Villain

Only thing I would change is that Responsibility and Warden's status as hero/vigilante is almost interchangeable, depending on your point of view.

Well, we never did find out who or where Nemesis is in Praetoria..

If Enriche actually controlled people there wouldn't be a need for seers, nor would there be a need for enriche advertisements or new flavours. I still believe really just mind altering to make people relaxed and calm despite the chaos around.

The mind altering agent is a relaxant meant to keep you calm and relaxed. It does not actually control minds... Controlling minds is what we see at the BAF.

If you want a similar situation, Alcohol and Coffee are legalized mind altering drugs.

At the current point of time, it would only lead to a complete massacre of all human troops. There's an absurdly higher percentage of mechanical troops vs human troops currently if I recall right, and that includes warworks (also, the military as far as I know does not include the supers, since those are under the purview of Praetor White). The only possible scenario which I foresee could work is if he convinces Antimatter (or Metronome) to work with him against Cole. *hinthint*