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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Unless ceo crates give you something worthwhile I feel like a hanger is a better buy if you're just using it to run a nightclub, because being able to summon helicopters is very useful, as is fort zancudo access.

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Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

OwlFancier posted:

Unless ceo crates give you something worthwhile I feel like a hanger is a better buy if you're just using it to run a nightclub, because being able to summon helicopters is very useful, as is fort zancudo access.

Good point. I had the crate warehouse from initial launch, and ended up buying a hangar for exactly that reason. Lemme edit my post.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Also if you actually get rich you're probably gonna want to buy a pile of planes.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Otacon posted:

Then months later Rockstar had discounts on Nightclubs, Terrorbytes, Oppressor Mk 2s, and I bought all of them with some discounted upgrades.

This is why I'm holding off on buying a penthouse. I got burned one time when one of the updates dropped (the facility?) and there was a discount within weeks.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Always buy on discount if you can.

E: and if you can't then yeah, probably wait for one.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jul 25, 2019

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

OwlFancier posted:

Also if you actually get rich you're probably gonna want to buy a pile of planes.

I don't think I've actually done more than one hangar mission yet, but it makes for a bitchin' aviation museum until I actually do.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

You aren't missing anything unless you like the hangar missions.

Which yeah they're not bad missions honestly, it's just a shame the payout is utter trash :v:

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Speaking of Zancudo, why can't you record in that place? Is it because of are Troops, even though IIRC you kill some in the story?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I mean thematically it makes sense cos squaddies get pretty mad if you start filming them IRL :v:

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

After winning a car on the big wheel, it is removed from the display stand. Not sure what happens if you spin and land on it a second time

Reddit reports that you're given like 20,000 RP but no chips/cash/cars

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

CBJSprague24 posted:

This is why I'm holding off on buying a penthouse. I got burned one time when one of the updates dropped (the facility?) and there was a discount within weeks.

I mean, you might as well get the free one, assuming you have Amazon Prime.

namlosh
Feb 11, 2014

I name this haircut "The Sad Rhino".
I really like the armored Paragon or whatever it’s called that you get for free after hosting the casino missions. It just looks and drives badass imo

But I think there’s a glitch where after changing something at the east side LS customs and pulling out, the car acted like it started out in 5 gear or something. Worked fine after a while, but it was just weird

I’m kinda pissed they patched the glitch for throwing cars using the shunt boost. I may never drive my nightmare Brutus again :(

Anime_Otaku
Dec 6, 2009
Am I missing something or is Loose Chang the only mission you can activate from the casino?

MY INEVITABLE DEBT
Apr 21, 2011
I am lonely and spend most of my time on 4Chan talking about the superiority of BBC porn.

Anime_Otaku posted:

Am I missing something or is Loose Chang the only mission you can activate from the casino?

you have to do it as the host

cheesetriangles
Jan 5, 2011





Wait the npcs that try to kill you when you sell a car only show up if there's no players?

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

cheesetriangles posted:

Wait the npcs that try to kill you when you sell a car only show up if there's no players?

Yup.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

If you (and your ceo associates) are the only players in the lobby, yes.

Zigmidge
May 12, 2002

Exsqueeze me, why the sour face? I'm here to lemon aid you. Let's juice it.
Bbbbut my solo content!!!!

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


cheesetriangles posted:

Wait the npcs that try to kill you when you sell a car only show up if there's no players?

They also have laser aim, and can shoot your car dangling from a helicopter, from their car weaving through traffic, with nothing but a pistol, from 3 miles away

NOT_A_VIRUS.EXE
Dec 10, 2001
I send you this file in order to have your advice!

cheesetriangles posted:

Wait the npcs that try to kill you when you sell a car only show up if there's no players?

At first I would always try to stop and kill them but eventually I learned that you can simply outrun and ignore them if you aren't the worst driver. They will crash and fall behind usually. The helicopter NPC sucks the most but even it can be outrun.

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



namlosh posted:

The issue with the fees is overblown... I’ve never used the mission AFK method because I always forget and as long as you quit ceo or god-forbid MC before you afk, you’ll still make a ton of money. Zero grinding

I hate to see people min-maxing this game. There’s so much to do that pays money and so many ways to do it. If it feels like grinding, don’t do it... move onto something else or another game. I made money to buy crate warehouses by doing contact missions and vip work. While I’m one of the odd people that actually liked crates for a while, I burned out on them too. But before that, I tried doing them with different vehicles, different strats... etc to keep it fresh. Heists were always a pain in the rear end to find people to me so I STILL haven’t done them all in tyool 2019 and lvl ~470

But don’t get me wrong... nightclub dlc was the game changer. I literally have to look for stuff to spend money on now and haven’t had to grind for a second since it dropped

This explains why I haven't touched GTA in ages. If you want to get anything remotely interesting without buying Shark Cards or doing anything that'd put your account in danger, Rockstar makes you grind for it. I have other things to do besides poopsock. At this point, I'd rather see the single-player side get some love for once.

Wee Bairns
Feb 10, 2004

Jack Tripper's wingman.

Yeah, the casino update makes me curious to dip my toes back into the GTO world, but it's been well over a year since I've actively played. I'm a poor, and there are so many new toys out since I played last that I'd be overrun with things I want, without the desire to grind to get it.

hiddenriverninja
May 10, 2013

life is locomotion
keep moving
trust that you'll find your way

Wee Bairns posted:

Yeah, the casino update makes me curious to dip my toes back into the GTO world, but it's been well over a year since I've actively played. I'm a poor, and there are so many new toys out since I played last that I'd be overrun with things I want, without the desire to grind to get it.

grinding at your actual job and buying shark cards to buy what you want in game would probably way more efficient

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


A $2b modded GTA account is like 30 bucks.

The $50 shark card can't even get you an entire oppressor II

don't buy shark cards

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


lol

quote:

Summary of what all the stuff in the new Casino DLC might cost you: $63,548,081 in-game cash.

penthouse (styles, etc.): $8,884,500
clothes: $14,427,759
decorations: $7,279,490
tattoos: $1,598,820
vehicles: $28,030,250
and vehicle mods: $3,326,762.

Based on the cost of in-game Shark cash cards, if you bought $64,000,000 using the highest value card – the Megalodon, which is worth $8,000,000 and has the best value ‘conversion’ rate – you’d spend $799.92 (£519.92).

wanna see this breakdown but for arenawars (which i still havent put a dime into)

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Yeah shark cards are a hilarious rip off in terms of the actual cash and time ingame it saves you. I'm pretty sure you can actually earn money faster ingame than you can working min wage lol.

Slush Garbo
Nov 20, 2007

FALSE SLACK
is
BETTER
than
NO SLACK
I estimate it takes two 8 hr. work days at Taco Bell to buy one Megalodon card, but you can have all the Baja Blast you can drink

BitBasher
Jun 6, 2004

You've got to know the rules before you can break 'em. Otherwise, it's no fun.


Also if you do buy shark cards be patient, there are deals every so often. I got one at triple the normal GTA dollars for it.

Shitty Wizard
Jan 2, 2013

ASK ME WHY
I VOTED
FOR TRUMP

Hugh Malone posted:

I estimate it takes two 8 hr. work days at Taco Bell to buy one Megalodon card, but you can have all the Baja Blast you can drink

I actually had some taco bell and Baja Blast today, but Code Red is still the MVP of Dew.

Also I'm at 2 million bucks, I should pick up the Terrorbyte for the discount on the Oppressor right?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

If you want an oppressor the terrorbyte is a decent purchase, not least because the client jobs are fairly good money as far as freeroam missions go. Easy to complete the bank job one and pays like 30k.

Also because you can't actually do anything with the oppressor without the terrorbyte mod shop lol.

Medullah
Aug 14, 2003

FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS
I assume you know you can't buy the Terrorbyte without the nightclub too. :)

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


OwlFancier posted:

Yeah shark cards are a hilarious rip off in terms of the actual cash and time ingame it saves you. I'm pretty sure you can actually earn money faster ingame than you can working min wage lol.

No. The limit in-game is around $400k/hour running cars while earning bunker/club income. a $100 shark card gives you $8,000,000. That's 20 hours work for $100 worth of shark card, or $5/hour.

there are(were?) some expoits and poo poo to earn more like running the pac standard finale over and over, but it's still bad.

No Mods No Masters
Oct 3, 2004

Have they pretty much run down all the straight up spawn infinite money exploits at this point? Back when I last played (doomsday heist-ish) having a hacker drop money on you was still pretty trivial to arrange if it didn't just happen randomly first

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


No Mods No Masters posted:

Have they pretty much run down all the straight up spawn infinite money exploits at this point? Back when I last played (doomsday heist-ish) having a hacker drop money on you was still pretty trivial to arrange if it didn't just happen randomly first

Yeah, you can get a ton of "transaction failed, too many transactions" errors doing even legit poo poo now.

Zigmidge
May 12, 2002

Exsqueeze me, why the sour face? I'm here to lemon aid you. Let's juice it.
No, they have not done a single thing. It always has been and always will be staffers at desks responding to player reports.

Buy a mod menu or buy another game. This thread is approaching peak insanity with these idling strategies.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Perhaps finding ways to optimize your idling strat is the fun bit.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Zigmidge posted:

No, they have not done a single thing. It always has been and always will be staffers at desks responding to player reports.

Buy a mod menu or buy another game. This thread is approaching peak insanity with these idling strategies.

Yeah, it's almost like bitcoin mining.

If there's a 300 watt difference between your computer off and idling in GTA, and you're idling it 20 hours a day to earn funbux, that's 6kwh/day. Depending on your power costs, that could be anywhere from 60 cents to $3 a day.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Zigmidge posted:

No, they have not done a single thing. It always has been and always will be staffers at desks responding to player reports.

When it's not their anti-cheat code inadvertently flagging tens of thousands of accounts playing a new mode.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


you can also shamefully no-life it like I did:



very shamefully

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SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Real pros duped cars on the 360.

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