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HoroscopesSun is in Cancer/Defender, Moon is in Libra/Peacebringer Heroscopes
Villainscopes
~Handwritten page found laying atop the Horoscope submission~ Hello again my pets. Shall we cast the cards and see what there is to see or shall I just tell you what you want to hear perhaps a little of both perhaps neither Villainscopes
Heroes...
~Love and Kisses
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So You want Some Art: | Sampling Paragons Culinary Delights... For great justice!Hail, heroes and those with a less-than-heroic bent, Preternatural here yet again as we continue our ongoing exploration of the dining delights of our fair city! This week we're stopping by a favorite of yours truly, the Dirty Duck pub. Run by Seamus Mulligan, who you might remember from days of yore as the Four Leaf Cleaver, a hero (or was it villain?) of no small reputation before he hung up his cape to pay closer attention to his true love: small, dingy bars with dark wood paneling, tucked-away booths, a roaring fireplace and no questions asked when a fellow man enough to wear spandex strides in looking for a pint. A tiny pub, as fine a place as it may be for having a cool one and considering the many smitings delivered unto evil/good over the course of a long day, isn't exactly where one expects to find the finer side of the flatware, no? But Seamus, ah, Seamus - he brings a little piece of County Cork with him from the shamrock shore; recipes from his grandmother, traditional fare in the family since before the bogs became peat. Seamus may wish you the top o' the mornin', but soon enough you'll be considering the bottom o' your empty plate. Now I've shared many a conversation with Seamus over the top of a highball of a smooth single malt, worth every minute of the fifteen years it spent in the oak barrel. We've gotten as close as two fellows accustomed to living under secret identities by day and patrol the streets by night can be. As such, I leaned on Seamus a little to divulge some of the secrets of his grandmother's rarebit or the melt-in-your mouth brisket he serves up now and again on a Sunday. No dice, he keeps those recipes closer to his heart than his chest hair. He threatened to get out his old shillelagh and pummel me for even asking. I persevered, though, and told him it was for a worthy cause: the denizens of Paragon need something that sticks to their ribs, and look at all these high-handed California cuisine restaurants taking over the scene, serving a sprig of parsley and a small withered bean sprout and calling it "dinner" - didn't Seamus want to strike a blow for high cholesterol? If we can't stop crime, can't we at least stop a heart or two? If everyone were to eat responsibly, what would cardiologists do with themselves? Was or was not Seamus disheartened by the prospect of rows of unemployed cardiologists looking for handouts underneath the statue in Atlas, offering discount bypass in the back alleys for drinking money? He was, and shared with me a "For the Public" version of his grandmother's Poor Man's Shepherd's Pie. No need for clay ovens or peat fires, folks, this will take minutes to throw together and just a few more to bake!
Talk about easy... and talk about tasty. The beef stews in its own broth (or spews broth forth all over your oven if you didn't fold it right), the vegetables steam atop it while still maintaining their fresh flavor - the combination once it's all done is enough to make a grown man cry over the cost of rare arcane salvage. I make this regularly at home, it's perfect for the hero or villain on the go and it has all a growing mutant needs to keep your head in the game and your fists on the enemy's solar plexus. Serve it with a nice room-temperature stout (poured proper!) and you'll be having visions of the green fields of Cork in no time.
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Guardian: The Little Server that CouldIf you think of PVP, and Servers in the same thought process, you usually think of Freedom, correct? Well, the little West Coast server that is known for giving away cookies, instead of smackdowns, had an admirable showing in their preliminary PVPEC's Super Pentad Tournament qualification round with 4 teams showing up. The Lineup for this event was: Team RIMC Team Weapon Team LATE Team Steel The competition was fierce. Matches were fought well. Match 1: Team RIMC vs Team Weapon Match 2: Team Steel vs Team LATE Match 3: Team RIMC vs Team LATE Match 4: Team Steel vs Team Weapon Match 5: Team Weapon vs Team LATE Match 6: Team RIMC vs Team Steel Final match was in the Troll Cave map. Alpha-One isolated and cornered with his force bubble, while the G-Maulisher mowed them down. Kahlan D'rane flew on the outskirts picking off the stragglers, Instigator XIV maintained crowd control while Radish tossed debuffs left right and center. Everyone fought very well, and had a grand old time. They all went in to it expecting to have fun, and have fun they did. So, what does the Mixed Pentad Finals on Saturday the 21'st hold for these rising stars? Will they be the underdogs? Who knows, the only way to find out is to hop on over to Test at 7pm PST/ 10PM EST and find out for yourselves! Guardian Results 1st Place: Team RIMC Final Results of the Qualification round for Champion and Infinity servers: ChampionChampion First Place: Team The Vills are Inert! @Talent Agent- troller Champion Second Place: Here is Team VORI @Silver Wing - Blaster Infinity | PvP On Justice
Justice may not be known for PvP but you'd be surprised if you visited Pocket D on Monday nights there. Anywhere from 10-30 players routinely show up to battle in a variety of matches. One of the most interesting things about Justice Monday Night Arena, is that there are considerably less "FotM" builds participating. In the recent past there has been Kheldians, Trick Arrow Defenders, Electric Blasters and Claws Scrappers just to name a few. The general feeling one gets from Justice Monday Arena Night is that having a good time is more important than winning. Test may be known as the "Elite PvP" server, Freedom as the "Most PvP", Liberty as the "SG/VG PvP" server but Justice looks to be establishing itself as the "Fun PvP" server. Correction on last weeks Justice League Finals article |
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RobojesusThe Robotic SaviourI was sitting at the bar, at my usual spot, when I hear this *clank clank clank* approach the bar. I look over and I see this saintly looking android looking at me with wizened optical receptors. I greet him nicely, as he sits down next to me. The conversation after that was rather interesting.
Kahlan D'Rane: Interesting...So who built you? Sorry if I seem a little blunt, that's just my nature. Has to do with my former occupation as a professional torturer and all.. RoboJesus: The same guy who built you, this bar and everything else you encounter. God. Kahlan D'Rane: I thought God worked in organic matter only..that robots were a human invention...at least in this dimension,.. RoboJesus: Check your Bible. He created everything. Kahlan D'Rane: I have never seen a robot until I came here. I am not from this dimension. My Emperor sent me here on a whim...from another dimension. He opened the rift with his magic and sent me here to do, well I have no idea he never told me before shoving me through the portal RoboJesus: The organic things came after everything else. Well we live in a technological age. I never said i would return as a human. Kahlan D'Rane: you were here before? that is interesting... RoboJesus: Roughly 2000 years ago. You can look it up on Wikipedia or something after. Pretty common knowledge round this dimension. Kahlan D'Rane: aah the glorious wikipedia, that "website" has helped me learn much about your world...it's sad, there is no magic here..what ever happened to it's magic? RoboJesus: Children stopped believing, so they say. Kahlan D'Rane: well that's depressing. Where I come from magic is just..well it just IS. it always has existed. I've run into some wierdos called the Circle of Thorns..they try to bring it back..but their attempts are so feeble...compared to where I'm from anyway . It is fun turning their spells of pain back onto them that's for sure. Who is the group you find the most "interesting" around these parts? RoboJesus: Well a few still practice it. Some people have confused my miracles for magic, but Ii'm just channeling the power of the lord. Rikti, for sure. They're all atheists. I don't know how that works though since I hear they killed their God. I mean if they killed him they have pretty definitive proof that he existed. And since they are stepping up their operations I've been looking into them. Kahlan D'Rane: Yeah those rikti sure are pests...those monkeys though...have a charm that's for sure . So other than "Prime Directive" what brings you to Paragon city? RoboJesus: This city has had a lot of bad stuff happen to it over the last few years, alien invasions, Lord Recluse with his little schemes and all the other villain groups. The city needs a hero, one who helps the weak and wounded, not someone who fights violence. Kahlan D'Rane: So that's why you chose to "come back" to Paragon, and not anywhere else...like lets say Guatamala RoboJesus: God has a plan. Kahlan D'Rane: Interesting. RoboJesus: Err, yeah. Nobody falls for that. Kahlan D'Rane: hehehe RoboJesus: Paragon City is in a unique position with some magic lines or something, I'm not clear on the details. Kahlan D'Rane: "God has a plan" I've heard that so many times.. never understood it. It's always said when real crappy things happen.. RoboJesus: Whatever happens here echoes across the globe, the most good can be done here. Kahlan D'Rane: Must be, The Rogue Isles have a pretty strong ley line. That's why my Agiel still works. Everywhere else though...So umm Want an apple? RoboJesus: That's not my primary energy source but sure. Also, the forbidden fruit wasn't an apple if that was a trick. Kahlan D'Rane: darn it...I thought it was...Silly Wiki RoboJesus: I don't know where that started. Kahlan D'Rane: meh who knows. that book's been around for a few years.. RoboJesus: It's a bestseller. Kahlan D'Rane: Yeah, I heard. RoboJesus: I'm proud to be a part of it. Kahlan D'Rane: Anyway, what's up with the fact there are so many other religions in this world that also claim to be the real deal anyway? Like can't this silly dimension stick with ONE? Where I'm from, we have one religion, that is it..nothing else. It isn't even really a religion... RoboJesus: Well the 3 main monotheistic religions are all sort of the same, just interpreted the details a bit differently. The others i would guess might have to do with heroes of the past. Kahlan D'Rane: aah I see. This world just boggles my mind at times... Kahlan D'Rane: *looks at watch* Oh dear....I have an appointment with Ghost Widow...I really can't be late....*sigh* she'll make me wash Wretch's feet again...It's been nice chatting with you! RoboJesus: No problem. Have a vision miracle. This thing can make the blind see. Blessing Complete Kahlan D'Rane: See ya round some time.
| DJ SheckyThe Disk Jockey from out of this world.Man, I come to this place WAY too often. The Bartender knows me by my first name now. He even knows what I like to drink and has it ready before I even have a chance to sit down. Oh well. The Pocket D, is the place for me! Where else can I cool my heels stress freebetween jobs? Where else can I meet such interesting people aswell?? So I'm drinking away...and this guy in a kilt walks up to the bar and offers to top up my drink: DJ Shecky: So, I take it you work for The City Scoop. Kahlan D'Rane: Yeah It's part of my parole.. I guess because I tortured ONE too many people I got picked up by what you would call, the police DJ Shecky: I see, well there are worse things they could have made you do. Kahlan D'Rane: That's true. I could be doing cleanup in here *shudder* Scraping vomit off of the floor isn't my idea of fun..I usually made my slaves do that.. DJ Shecky chuckles Kahlan D'Rane: So anyway, what brings you to this place? DJ Shecky: So shall I keep calling you Ma'am or do you have a name? I forgot my device that tells me peoples names. Kahlan D'Rane: Just keep calling me Ma'am. you haven't earned the honour of calling me by my name DJ Shecky: To Paragon, or Pocket D? Paragon, I sort of just drifted here, Pocket D well, it tends to be a very interesting place, and I do most of my Radio shows from here. Kahlan D'Rane: What brings you around, other than, well people like me DJ Shecky: Paragon, Well, I had a friend who lived here who took me in at one point, came back after I had merged with a Kheldian to help out around the place. Kahlan D'Rane: Merging with a Kheldian..sounds painful, what's the process? DJ Shecky: I really don't recall much of it, wasn't painful, just sort of happened. My time before the merger is somewhat hazy at best. I was injured at the time of the merger. Kahlan D'Rane: Ah what happened?
Kahlan D'Rane: oooh yeah that would do it. I noticed there are many colourful villain groups around, which ones are your favorites to deal with? DJ Shecky: The one I tend to deal with the most are The Council since they tend to work with The Nictus quite often. Outside of them I would say The Crey would be one of my more favorite ones. Kahlan D'Rane: hehe Crey...they just have more money than brains half the time DJ Shecky: That they do Ma'am. Kahlan D'Rane: Sooo....What do you do around here for fun anyway? DJ Shecky: Me, well I am a DJ for The Cape radio. I do 2 shows a week, and help out around the station. It is a lot of fun to me to entertain people and make their day's a little bit better. Kahlan D'Rane: Sounds like fun. where do I go to tune in? DJ Shecky: Well you can reach it at www.thecaperadio.com or put www.thecaperadio.com:8000 as the url in your media player. DJ Shecky: I also find people watching in Pocket D a lot of fun, but since getting married, I don't do that as often. Kahlan D'Rane: yeah, I have yet to find a mate worthy enough of me. They all die during courtship...Mord-sith aren't very umm gentle on our mates.. DJ Shecky: I am sure someone of your caliber will eventually come along for you. Kahlan D'Rane: Well they have to be extremely strong in constitution...must be able to sit at the brink of death for extended periods of time.. DJ Shecky: I also am in charge of The Cape's Super Group Advertising service. Kahlan D'Rane: Oooh. Well I know the Rogue Isles Marine Corps on Guardian is hiring... DJ Shecky: Ahh unfortunately, we concentrate on The Virtue server. I"m sure there are stations over on Guardian. Kahlan D'Rane: not sure...I'll have to poke around. Well anyway, I MUST be off...Ghost Widow will make me wash Wretch's feet if I don't attend this meeting...do you know how bad Wretch's feet smell?? *gags a little* DJ Shecky: Well be well, Tell Ghost Widow I said hello. She is an interesting person. No, I don't know how bad his feet smell, I've only talked with Ghost Widow from time to time, like when she kidnapped me during my bachelor party. Kahlan D'Rane: That she is. I'll see you around some time. DJ Shecky: Be seeing you. .  |
RoboJesus: Greetings. I am RoboJesus, the messiah for the new Millennium.
DJ Shecky: Well from the little I can remember, I think I got caught in the middle of a battle somewhere.
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Steel Canyon MazeA day in Snow_Globe's life Rules: Note: Some of the clues are obscure. Really obscure. Day plan:
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Here is the tenth weekly edition of "The City Scoop" a publication for Supers by Supers.
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The City Scoop
Port Oakes
Vol I, Issue X
JUly 20th, 2007
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Advice
Horoscopes, Ask Athy, Advice From The X, By Popular Demand
Arts
So You Want Some Art: A Tutorial, Sampling Paragons Culinary Delights..., So You Want Some Art: Sources, Color Me Excited
Arena
Guardian: The Little Server That Could, PvP On Justice, Correction, Classifieds
Encounters
Interviews With: RoboJesus and DJ Shecky
Puzzles & Games
The City Scoop Staff
Editors-in-Chief
Tobay
Lemur Lad - Assistant
Editors
Teldon
Behind the Mask
LadyK
Food and Restaurant, Classifieds
Protea
Business and Market
Snow Globe
Puzzles
Burning_Brawler
Roleplaying
MrsAlphaOne
Encounters
Advice
Athyna
Arts
Thors
Assassin
Dirtwolf
PvP Correspondents
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Mantid
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Piracy through the Ages
by Creeping Crowley
Born in fire and blood, the history of Port Oakes is almost as dark and mysterious as its present day. Of all the Rogue Isles, Oakes is the most normal seeming. People can go about their business, Arachnos patrols the streets, the gangsters tend to shoot at each other, and there's not much supernatural weirdness going on. However if you pay close attention, something is always going on beneath the surface. It may not be as tense and desperate as the labor battles of Sharkhead, or as glamorous as the shining lights of St Martial, but there's crime to be done. It's what bottom feeders feed off, so they can in turn be fed on by those higher up. It's the kind of crime that drives a hundred other things on these Isles. Modern piracy doesn't have to happen on the open water, it happens in the back rooms or back alleys when nobody is looking. At least nobody dumb enough to blab about it. This is the place it happens, Port Oakes.
The modern side of the harbor is what brings in food and goods to the island, and what helps the Family maintain control of the local government. I'm also sure that the dry-docks aren't particularly rigorous in their inspections, and a less than shipshape ship can get what it needs to get back under way, no questions asked. However, in amongst the dry-docks and shipping containers, danger lurks. The mysterious Coralax Hybrids keep trying to establish themselves in the area, and end up in running battles with Arachnos troops. No one understands why they're doing it, but enterprising young villains will be able to earn some cash (and a soon to be fixed badge) by hunting them.
Everyone knows that the best way to define the word oxymoron is with the phrase "military intelligence". What they may not know is that the second place finisher was "organized crime". Sure, the Family struts around and pretty much runs everything, or gets a cut of the cash, but have you seen their dry cleaning bill? Those suits are not cheap, and part of the reason is all the blood removal they get from all that nasty infighting. Verandi and Marcone battle regularly, and even Frost has his say, because they're the ones selling what the local boys produce. Despite everything you hear about honor and respect coming from them down at the spaghetti parlor, they're the first ones to get ticked off, and the last one's to stop shooting, unless you manage to take them out first. All through Marconeville you can find their minor Bosses. I won't go into detail, but if you spend some time rubbing enough of them out, it will pay off in a nice big Jackpot later in your career. Just relax and play the slots when you're bigtime enough for the Golden Giza, you'll find the right contact eventually.
My readers need to understand, that when I said not much happens in the way of supernatural weirdness in Port Oakes, I'm not forgetting Fort Hades for a moment. I'm comparing it to Sharkhead, where you can see eleven foot ghosts walking the streets, or Cap au Diable where scuffing your feet on the carpet and touching a light switch can get you a large red electric gremlin in your apartment. When night falls, the troops at Fort Hades take up battle stations, ready to continue whatever experiments or battles with the Red Hands are needed. It can be a lot of fun learning how to use the ghost traps, and the Veluta Lunata lady might give you some work if you get good at it. Two pieces of advice though, don't overload the traps unless you're ready for the consequences, and don't do any Ray Parker Jr. impressions for the guys on night shift, they REALLY don't like it.
Port Oakes looks like a sleepy little town at first. Don't fall for it though, there's a lot of stuff happening. The trick is to be the one making it happen instead of the one it's happening to.
Upcoming Events:
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Boudicia's Leather Weather Report
By Boudicia_Dark
Let's talk about rain, shall we? It never rains in Paragon City and we sure do need it! This city is in drought conditions! I think I know why too. It's those storm controllers. Instead of spreading the rain around, they keep it all to themselves and use it indoors! Who needs it indoors? Storm controllers of the City, do the right thing and spread your stormy goodness all over the skies and bring us RAIN!
During this weather report massive storm clouds were seen on every horizon. Have the storm controllers pulled together in an effort to abate the drought? Or is something more sinister approaching?
Letter From The Editor
To our loyal Readers,
So, this is our marvelous tenth issue, and I have to say... I'm impressed. As Community Coordinator Ex Libris pointed out, we've come quite a ways from our first issue. I don't really know what to say except that I'm proud of my entire team (of which, incidentally, I was not Editor in Chief for the first several issues!). This project's been a lot to handle, but thanks to the dedication of a fantastic team of hard workers and the support of a great fan base, it keeps growing.
And grow it shall! For the past two weeks we've been adding several new members. Some accentuate already popular features (such as Dirtwolf's work on the Art section), while others will be giving our paper new and shinier dimensions. For an example of the latter, looking to Burning_Brawler, who will be helping us develop more coverage of the Role playing community.
But there's more. Oh, so much more. When we started this paper, we began brainstorming as to what communities we wanted to highlight. Different sections, such as Fan Art and PvP, seemed like no brainers, because they have such large support. After that, we decided that Fan Art needed its own project head (Hi, Thors_Assasian!). A need to bring up the community's own news led to tighter coverage of player hosted events. Bowfling brought us the Point/Counterpoint to represent those that like discussing the future of City of Heroes and Villains, so on and so forth. Still, after all the additions, our brains are still bubbling with too many ideas!
That's where you, the reader, come into this whole thing. Post. Talk. Tell us what's up, and what you like about us. Are we failing? Let us know, and we'll see what we can do. We are here for you. So, after this newsletter, there will be a link to discuss what you read here today. Use it to give us feedback. Trust us, after what we've already been through, there isn't much you could say that would hurt our feelings.
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With all due respect,
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P.S. I couldn't find a place to put this, but "Tenth Issue! Rawk!"
Hot Threads
This is the section of the Scoop where you'll find links to some of the most interesting stuff happening on the City of Heroes/Villains forums in case you missed some of the hot topics.
First up, we have _Castle_'s Open Defiance Discussion thread, where the devs and members of the community are brainstorming ideas on how to improve Defiance, the Blaster inherent power.
Speaking of upcoming changes, this thread contains a lot of speculation on what will be in Issue 11, including discussion of what a cryptic statement by Positron about a long requested upcoming feature actually means.
Dipping into the Role Playing world, Burning_Brawler, our new staff member in charge of all things RP recommends this thread for posting your RP character concept, both for reference and critiques.
Another thread, Market Bottlenecks discusses exactly how often Rare salvage should drop.
And finally, down in the Comics and Culture forum, a lively discussion on which Star Wars Trillogy is better: Classic or Prequel?
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A Call To Arms
With the impending Issue 10: Invasion, the people of Paragon City,
the Rogue Isles and the world, need a leader! A shining beacon of hope, unity
and brotherhood. Do you think you have what it takes? The City Scoop is calling
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Write a brief speech, explaining why we should all rise above our differences,
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to names, supergroups, or servers.
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and one (1) villainous will receive a City of Heroes/City of Villains cape.
Honorable mention winners will receive City of * bumper stickers.
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Special thanks to Combat , for providing the idea of this contest, as well as to NCSoft and Cryptic
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Contest details for The City Scoop "Call to Arms" writing contest.
Entries will be judged in three (3) categories:
Best over all
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The winners of the "Call to Arms" contest will be announced in The
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The State of the AT
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by Lemur Lad
Partly because it's summer in Maine, and partly because it's summer pretty much everywhere else too, I've been having a hard time finding people to write the last few SotA articles. We're going to finish out the series, because it's been really good so far, but I want some help from the community. What I'd like are names, or volunteers to write about:
Blasters
Stalkers
Defenders
Corruptors
I've got a really promising candidate working hard on Brutes for next week, but I'd like to hear some suggestions for the above ATs. They're the one's I'm least familiar with so I've been having a hard time finding folks. I'll look over any names I get over the weekend, read some of their forum posts (if you know a good one, give me a link too), then decide. Please post in this weeks Discussion thread, or send me a Forum PM. Thanks in advance!
Protea's Market Watch
now with 100% less Protea!
This is Fulmens. Protea is busy with... I can't quite tell you, but it's big. BIG.
Here's the pricing as of the evening of 17 July. Some of the variation in prices is undoubtedly due to taking measurements at different times of day- I've seen certain items go up and down by a million infl on a daily cycle- but the general downward trends seem to be consistent and real.
As you'd expect of a market in "things that fell off the back of the truck", villain-side trends are murkier. Some heroside price collapses (Hamidon Goo, for instance) were not mirrored villainside, leading to situations where the villain market was actually higher-priced in its alleged strong suit: magic salvage. What does this mean for the unrestrained capitalism practiced in Lord Recluse's shadow? Only time will tell...
WentWorth's
RHA
4,100,000
-4%
RMA
3,640,000
+5%
RHA
3,560,000
-3%
RMA
3,560,000
+21%
RHA
2,720,000
-1%
RHA
2,670,000
-10%
RHA
2,370,000
+5%
RHA
1,900,000
+2%
RHA
1,790,000
-8%
RHA
1,460,000
-40%
Black Market
RHA
2,850,000
+13%
RHA
2,160,000
-12%
RHA
1,940,000
+0%
RHA
800,000
-34%
RHA
628,000
+2%
RHA
610,000
+45%
RHA
502,000
+44%
RHA
501,000
-37%
RHA
400,000
+0%
RHA
112,000
-82%