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It seems everyone is starting their own market experiment, so I decided to try my own and see what happens.

There are plenty of people out there who still use SOs, often, people who don't like the using the market. Which is unfortunate, since they're likely to get better deals on their SOs on the market.

So, I'm going to pass off the more useful SOs I get to lesser used alts and put them up on the market rather than just selling them off at the RWZ quartermaster like I'd normally do. But I want to at least break even (I'm not that altruistic), so they'll go up for the base price (as if bought new) times 0.4 (RWZ QM buys back for 40% off new prices) divided by 0.9 (to cover the market fee) rounded up to the next thousand. Basically, about 44-45% of the regular price, maximum of 27,000 (level 50+ damage or heal SO).

The SOs will then be listed on a spreadsheet on Google Docs (also see link in sig) with the exact price needed to buy it. If it stays up for more than two weeks, I'll pull it down and vendor it.

The SOs I consider useful and will be putting up are Accuracy, Damage, Endurance Red and Mod, Heal, Damage Resist, Defense and Recharge. Possibly movement types, but probably not any debuffs or mezz unless they're level 51+. If there's 10 or more of that type already up, I'll try and clear some of it out by buying them up to the sell back price and vendor the whole lot.

Click the “Items for sale” tab at the bottom to see the current inventory.

Most SOs will be around either level 33 or level 50, since those are the characters I run most often.

This experiment made much easier thanks to the OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension.

Wasn't there another method, in which you could get both? I seem to recall on one run where one person stayed outside while everyone else ran in and clicked. The person outside would then Assemble the Team and then we'd deal with the ambushes as they came out. After that, we went back in, flew to ceiling and then dealt with Director 11 from there. Does that not work anymore?

I've got my last 20 rolls documented. I crafted nearly everything, the rolls are at level 33 and I listed at what I felt was fair pricing, sometimes a bit higher depending upon Goat Rule.

My current average net (after crafting and salvage costs and the market take) profit per roll is 92,781,725 infl. with 5 IOs still unsold, probably overpriced.

If anyone is interested, I can post the whole list, but you might consider that outside the scope of this project.

There's no .ini file, most of the settings are kept in the registry. You can fiddle with some of the settings using TweakCoH. It's old and outdated but it still works, though it can't change some of the newer settings.

Always read the EULA, it could be worth money.

On Monday, I was having freezing problems. The game would load up but I couldn't even get online without it freezing even though everything was perfectly fine the night before. I even went out and bought a new video card with no change. So far the only thing that has worked was to add in "-renderthread 0" to the startup options.

It shouldn't be any different than on any other version of windows.

From the Wiki:

"The screenshot is stored in the screenshots subdirectory of the City of Heroes application directory (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\screenshots, unless City of Heroes was installed to a different directory)."

A few years ago, a player did a *lot* of testing on this. The post has long since been purged, but I saved the info on the Wiki talk page for Kronos, as well as a bit of testing I did.

Babbage, also, can be spawned elsewhere, but seems to have more limitations. For example, a few years ago when Protector did one of their Robot Rampages, we had about 15 Kronos's piled up in FF, but none of the Babbages we had ready would spawn there. The 2 or 3 Babbages I had ready only spawned when I went to other zones.