Syndicate Explorer

How to unlock Syndicate Explorer in Cheevos, browse 10 country-code domains while in a Party. Worth 30 XP.

The story

Partner. Ten country codes. Your Party's reach just went global.

Most browsing stays close to home: the same handful of familiar domains, the same country-code endings, day after day. Ten distinct country-code top-level domains, the ".de" and ".jp" and ".br" of the internet, means somebody in your Party has been wandering, and Cache has been counting every step.

He keeps a world map in the Stash for exactly this reason. Every country-code domain that gets visited earns a pin, and until now some corners of that map sat empty, waiting. Your Party just filled in a cluster of them, one browsing session at a time, without necessarily meaning to.

Cache does not care whether the wandering was deliberate. Maybe someone followed a link to a French news site. Maybe someone else ended up on a Japanese forum chasing a translation. Maybe a third person was just curious what a Brazilian retailer's homepage looked like. It does not matter. Ten pins is ten pins, and Cache's map does not ask for intent.

What matters to him is the range. A Party spread across ten country codes is a Party with real coverage, and coverage is the only currency Cache has ever fully trusted.

The catalog entry

TEN COUNTRY-CODE TLDS Acquired: Visited 10 distinct country-code top-level domains while part of a Party. Condition: Global. Distributed. Rarity: RARE. Requires serious range. Cache's Notes: Ten country codes. Ten different corners of the internet. Your Party's collective reach spans continents now. Cache has a world map in the Stash. He marks every country-code TLD that gets covered. The pins are adding up.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

This one is a collective total across your Party, not a single person's browsing alone.

  1. Join or create a Party with other active members.
  2. Browse normally, visiting whatever sites come up naturally.
  3. Reach 10 distinct country-code top-level domains visited across your Party's combined activity.

Country-code top-level domains, or ccTLDs, are the two-letter suffixes assigned to specific countries, like ".uk" for the United Kingdom, ".ca" for Canada, or ".jp" for Japan, as opposed to generic domains like ".com" or ".org". Cheevos counts distinct ccTLDs visited across everyone in your Party, which means a group with varied browsing habits, or members located in different parts of the world, reaches this milestone faster than any one person browsing alone.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache's world map fills in one pin at a time, and a Party spread across ten country codes is one of the fastest ways to color it in. To meet the raccoon who obsesses over every pin, read the story.