GTA Online: Wait, you can steal cars in this game?

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kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Ainsley McTree posted:

It�s been a while since I played and I don�t remember how the nightclub works; what does �go passive� mean in this context?

Filling up your drug stock using your staff. You need to own the proper businesses like coke, etc.

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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:56

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

kri kri posted:

Filling up your drug stock using your staff. You need to own the proper businesses like coke, etc.

He might also be asking about going passive mode, which makes you unable to fight but also unable to get hit

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:36

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Ahh ok. Or maybe afk? Basically just idling in game to keep your businesses running.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:38

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Yeah with almost everything being able to be done in private lobbies now the need for passive afking is almost nil at this point

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:40

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Medullah posted:

Yeah with almost everything being able to be done in private lobbies now the need for passive afking is almost nil at this point

I still afk tho since I�m not always playing.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:44

Ainsley McTree: Feb 19, 2004

I suppose it would have been helpful for me to quote the context, or to remember the wording correctly:

Baron von Eevl posted:

I like that the nightclub safe now makes nearly as much money as the warehouse and sales with the only investment being "walk out, enter passive, walk back in, throw out nuisance patron" every day or two.

I remember that there used to be a trick involving going afk without the game noticing so you could earn money while you�re asleep or at work or asleep at work but I think someone mentioned that that got patched out and I�m not sure if that�s what�s meant here

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:44

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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When I said "go passive" I meant passive mode, if you ever the nightclub while in passive mode it will prompt you to throw out a troublemaker for $10k and a boost to nightclub reputation. Having high reputation means the safe earns more money.

Why entering the nightclub while in passive mode triggers this is a mystery.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:46

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Ainsley McTree posted:

I suppose it would have been helpful for me to quote the context, or to remember the wording correctly:

I remember that there used to be a trick involving going afk without the game noticing so you could earn money while you’re asleep or at work or asleep at work but I think someone mentioned that that got patched out and I’m not sure if that’s what’s meant here

You used to be able to sit at a TV or security monitor and since you were "watching a movie" it didn't trigger AFK disconnect. From what I understand that is no longer working so you have to rubber band a controller.

I used to enter a mission right by my office, go in, watch TV and leave it overnight every night. My hours played must be insane

# ? Apr 18, 2024 01:52

Paying2Lurk: Sep 15, 2023; I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

Baron von Eevl posted:

When I said "go passive" I meant passive mode, if you ever the nightclub while in passive mode it will prompt you to throw out a troublemaker for $10k and a boost to nightclub reputation. Having high reputation means the safe earns more money.

Why entering the nightclub while in passive mode triggers this is a mystery.

Yeah this. And if you enter the nightclub while not in Passive Mode, you'll get a much more annoying reputation mission. Like slowly driving a drunk VIP home. Which if you quit or fail, hurts your rep, and thus, your cash.

Also you used to be able stand at the open nightclub safe and it wouldn't trigger the afk kick either. With max rep that could add up to almost a million while you slept. Then top it off with a sale and it was a nice chunk of change. It got patched out at some point though.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:06

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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Last I checked you could idle watching the dj on TV from the office in your nightclub but that was over a year ago and probably got patched.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:29

THF13: Sep 26, 2007; Keep an adversary in the dark about what you're capable of, and he has to assume the worst.

namlosh posted:

Not sure what snack menu you mean... but definitely learn to use snacks in the weapon wheel. It's a change made in the last year or so and I'm still not good at it, but it's worth getting good at.
what level are you currently?
e: ^^^^^^^^^^^

pretty sure strength doesn't affect health. it only decreases fall and fist fighting damage. Also you can jump over higher walls.

If you need to level up fast, crates are (or at least were) the way to go. grab some, then sell some.

Crates get a bad rap because they were the only way to make any money that wasn't doing heists with 3 other people for the longest time. People used to run crates, then do VIP work. Rinse and repeat until it really got grindy for some.

I've grinded my share of crates; and have the diamond trophy on my office desk to prove it. I didn't really burn out on them unless I went for a goal (like said trophy) and even then it was only short term. It can be fun to know all of the different scenarios and tricks to each one. I also used to be able to do any of the sell missions solo no problem and enjoyed the rush of selling a full warehouse for ~2 million.

That said, something changed in the last couple of years...
I may be wrong, but I swear it used to be that the "E" in PvE would almost never use explosive ordinance. So buzzards would only use the machine guns. Even when a Savage would show up, you'd have guys hanging out of the side shooting at you.
That changed... and I think it had a profound effect on one of the crate sell missions.
I can't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure there was always a sell mission where you get ambushed by a fully manned Valkyrie heli. They'd shoot at you... maybe use the miniguns. I'm not imagining that, right? I can't imagine added a brand new crate sell mission 5 years after the fact.

But the change above now meant that the Valkyrie could use it's cannon against you.
I have never been so spawn-trapped in this game as I was by that fuckin' thing. It's like the guys in Sultans that come after you when selling an export vehicle in a solo lobby... but with a cannon. Like literally killed before you had control.
I was able to kill it and complete the sale... but it was absolutely luck.
I can't really recommend crates anymore for that sole reason.

I haven't played this game in a while... maybe I'll fire it up tomorrow.

For crate delivery missions, if you get the plane delivery vehicle, there is a chance there will be enemy choppers waiting to ambush you. If you get that one, there will be 3 choppers total, 2 buzzards and one Valkyrie that will gently caress your poo poo up. They won't be together, just 1 chopper at 3/10 drop offs.
This can still be done solo, you have enough time to scout out the drop locations and shoot down the choppers with a buzzard that will spawn automatically next to your delivery plane, come back, and still make all the deliveries on time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR3iNZP3pk8

I think that fuckoff Valkryie can also gently caress your poo poo up on one of the cayo perico setups where you need to follow a Merryweather helicopter. I think it's because it's technically a cannon with explosive rounds and not firing rockets.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:07

Paying2Lurk: Sep 15, 2023; I'd take a bullet
for a bud any day.

I played the Merryweather setup mission for Cayo once. Never again. Instant lobby hop if it comes up.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:31

namlosh: Feb 11, 2014; I name this haircut "The Sad Rhino".

THF13 posted:

For crate delivery missions, if you get the plane delivery vehicle, there is a chance there will be enemy choppers waiting to ambush you. If you get that one, there will be 3 choppers total, 2 buzzards and one Valkyrie that will gently caress your poo poo up. They won't be together, just 1 chopper at 3/10 drop offs.
This can still be done solo, you have enough time to scout out the drop locations and shoot down the choppers with a buzzard that will spawn automatically next to your delivery plane, come back, and still make all the deliveries on time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR3iNZP3pk8

I think that fuckoff Valkryie can also gently caress your poo poo up on one of the cayo perico setups where you need to follow a Merryweather helicopter. I think it's because it's technically a cannon with explosive rounds and not firing rockets.

Yeah, that�s what I was doing� you have to go to the airport and enter the plane to kick off the mission, then get out and go scout the locations to kill any enemies camping at the dropoffs.
I was in my oppressor mk2 when I ran into the Valkyrie. It shot me straight off of it midair and spawn trapped me. That poo poo is legit bad.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:43

Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.

I think I'm going to put a little weight on my W key to stop myself from being kicked while I idle for cash. Too bad the safe is limited to collecting $250k

# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:57

Trilobite: Aug 15, 2001

Paying2Lurk posted:

I played the Merryweather setup mission for Cayo once. Never again. Instant lobby hop if it comes up.

Huh, I just fire a guided missile at the helicopter on the Merryweather HQ rooftop to fail the mission. It's about as fast as changing sessions, and more satisfying.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 06:27

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Definitely throw out the patron, sure, but for all other nightclub Rep gains, just go to your basement (this is important, it prevents the whole cutscene from playing) and just rehire djs at $10k a pop. Every time you do it, you get 10% of your popularity back. A new DJ hire will get 100% popularity back, but it costs $100k (and you can only hire a given DJ for the first time once, and then after that, it's a rehire for 10k). Because the nightclub safe can get up to $250k pretty quickly, it's worth it.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 11:24

VegasGoat: Nov 9, 2011

A few months ago you could idle on PC by going to the elevator in the ceo building and leaving the menu open. Did they patch that one recently?

# ? Apr 18, 2024 12:45

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

VegasGoat posted:

A few months ago you could idle on PC by going to the elevator in the ceo building and leaving the menu open. Did they patch that one recently?

The only ones I knew about were the dj cam, and the auto club one, where you go to the test drive area, and then go to leave, and stay on that menu. I heard that it was patched out, though.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 12:57

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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I know the wardrobe menu worked for a while, but I forget if you needed to scroll through that menu.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 13:09

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Definitely throw out the patron, sure, but for all other nightclub Rep gains, just go to your basement (this is important, it prevents the whole cutscene from playing) and just rehire djs at $10k a pop. Every time you do it, you get 10% of your popularity back. A new DJ hire will get 100% popularity back, but it costs $100k (and you can only hire a given DJ for the first time once, and then after that, it's a rehire for 10k). Because the nightclub safe can get up to $250k pretty quickly, it's worth it.

I love that this sounds like some kind of Producers level scheme, just hiring and firing the same five DJs over and over on paper to somehow generate fake buzz that drives up drink sales lol

# ? Apr 18, 2024 19:26

Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.

Nothing like stopping another club's promotion when your club's popularity is already at max :hehe:

I will never fire Solumon. I just have to keep throwing the same four troublemakers head first into the frame of the exit door to keep the adoration for him fresh

# ? Apr 18, 2024 19:43

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

So now that the thread's active again I guess I'll sadly ask if anyone plays this on Xbox.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 19:58

mp5: Jan 1, 2005; Stroke of luck!

The Omnis e-GT car is on sale for 40% off this week. It's a terrific electric 2-door that can be upgraded with armor plating that actually does something.

Additionally, it's eligible for Imani Tech upgrades from the Agency vehicle workshop, making it immune to missile locks. I have two of them and love driving them around.

# ? Apr 18, 2024 20:49

Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

Paying2Lurk posted:

I played the Merryweather setup mission for Cayo once. Never again. Instant lobby hop if it comes up.

Eh, this one isn't so bad. There's only 3 possible destinations; the power plant, out by Grapeseed, and behind the Animal Ark store along Rte 68. You can kind of tell where the chopper is headed within about 15 seconds. And it flies stupidly slowly so you can easily get there ahead of it.

Fly to where you think it's going, look for the Avenger. If not there try one of the other sites. Once you find the right place, land a bit away, and snipe all the dudes on the ground. They won't even react as they guy next to them drops dead.

Then it's just a matter of hiding behind something util the chopper shows up and the last two guys get out. Shoot 'em, get into Avenger, grab the thing, jump out, parachute to your aircraft and be on your way.

The only problem I ever had was one time when the site was the desert one, and I got a mission failed while I was waiting for the chopper to arrive. Did it again, same thing, followed it the 3rd time and watched it repeatedly crash into the mountain until it blew up. :waycool:

# ? Apr 18, 2024 21:08

mp5: Jan 1, 2005; Stroke of luck!

I really like the Merriweather weapon sourcing setup since other players can lock onto and destroy the chopper and halt the whole thing

# ? Apr 18, 2024 21:55

Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.

The cars for sale this week are garbage!! :mad:

# ? Apr 18, 2024 23:19

mp5: Jan 1, 2005; Stroke of luck!

Dokapon Findom posted:

The cars for sale this week are garbage!!

Try the omnis e-GT! Assuming you have an Agency, it's a lot of fun to fully customize, especially with the EMP mines

# ? Apr 19, 2024 00:20

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Dokapon Findom posted:

Nothing like stopping another club's promotion when your club's popularity is already at max

I will never fire Solumon. I just have to keep throwing the same four troublemakers head first into the frame of the exit door to keep the adoration for him fresh

For me, it's the Black Madonna. Once they played a remix of Stepping Out by Joe Jackson, I was sold.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 00:45

Ainsley McTree: Feb 19, 2004

I do appreciate the effort they put into the DJ sets for the nightclub, i used to just put them on as background music while i worked

# ? Apr 19, 2024 02:06

Ainsley McTree: Feb 19, 2004

Sorry for the doublepost but I have a question re: the acid lab. I finished the First Dose missions and got the truck, and I have $750k sitting in my bank account. Should I just upgrade the truck to get the lab now, or is it worth doing the Last Dose missions for Dax too before I get into it? I'm kind of ready to stop doing missions but if they're very important I suppose I will

# ? Apr 19, 2024 03:31

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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No, and I kinda hated the last dose missions. You get an okay electric super car at the end.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 03:58

HJE-Cobra: Jul 15, 2007; Bear Witness; Hell Gem

The nicest things about the electric supercar are that it's free and it can be upgraded if you own an Agency with imani tech for the lockon missile jammer, making it good for driving around in open free mode.

I just finished the new Cluckin Bell raid missions for the first time the other day. Seems like it would be a good way for a newbie to get $750,000 (500k payout + first completion bonus), with basically zero investment ahead of time. Though having an armored kuruma probably helps make some missions easier.

Plus they can be replayed to keep getting an easy 500k. Maybe I'll try it using my Weaponized Tampa for the setup missions next time.

HJE-Cobra fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Apr 19, 2024

# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:15

davebo: Nov 15, 2006; Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito; College Slice

Over a hundred new posts in the GTA thread but no Goon Theft Auto night this month?

# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:30

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Weaponized Tampa was one of my favorites early on, even though it drives like a 1987 Fiat with a half flat tire.

As I built up my armory it fell out of favor; coincidentally the Speedo from the Nightclub is just a better version of it in every way.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:35

Otacon: Aug 13, 2002

davebo posted:

Over a hundred new posts in the GTA thread but no Goon Theft Auto night this month?

Due to time constraints I no longer play GTAO, and have been encouraging someone, anyone, to step up, take the reigns, and do us Goons proud... but I haven't gotten any takers.

It's easy! It's fun! The secret to creating the raddest Goon Night ever is to pick a date and time convenient to you, and then post it here and in Discord. That's pretty much all the requirements: posting and playing.

If you post it, they will come!

# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:37

mp5: Jan 1, 2005; Stroke of luck!

Ainsley McTree posted:

Sorry for the doublepost but I have a question re: the acid lab. I finished the First Dose missions and got the truck, and I have $750k sitting in my bank account. Should I just upgrade the truck to get the lab now, or is it worth doing the Last Dose missions for Dax too before I get into it? I'm kind of ready to stop doing missions but if they're very important I suppose I will

Feel free to take a break but the Last Dose missions will also give you a one-time infusion of extra money. To get yourself off the ground I�d say it�s worth it.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 14:17

Ainsley McTree: Feb 19, 2004

I�ve got the acid lab up and running and it�s kind of nice how explicitly solo friendly it is, even selling a full batch of product is tuned for single player missions. Grateful for that, rockstar

I also really like how you can just call Mutt on the phone to get an update of where production/supply is at. I wish all the businesses worked that way, or that you could access your various business computers from your phone

# ? Apr 25, 2024 14:36

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Ainsley McTree posted:

I’ve got the acid lab up and running and it’s kind of nice how explicitly solo friendly it is, even selling a full batch of product is tuned for single player missions. Grateful for that, rockstar

I also really like how you can just call Mutt on the phone to get an update of where production/supply is at. I wish all the businesses worked that way, or that you could access your various business computers from your phone

Don't forget to, once an IRL day, pop into your lab and use that kit or whatever it is to boost the productivity for the next IRL 30 minutes.

# ? Apr 25, 2024 16:19

Ainsley McTree: Feb 19, 2004

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Don't forget to, once an IRL day, pop into your lab and use that kit or whatever it is to boost the productivity for the next IRL 30 minutes.

Yeah I�ve been doing that, it�s very satisfying.

I forget, do fooligan jobs (the ones you can call Dax for) keep paying good money after you�ve already upgraded the lab and unlocked the acid name change tied to them? I don�t think I�m going to keep doing them because I don�t like most of them but I do want to know if I should feel fomo about that choice

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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:56

mp5: Jan 1, 2005; Stroke of luck!

Ainsley McTree posted:

Yeah I�ve been doing that, it�s very satisfying.

I forget, do fooligan jobs (the ones you can call Dax for) keep paying good money after you�ve already upgraded the lab and unlocked the acid name change tied to them? I don�t think I�m going to keep doing them because I don�t like most of them but I do want to know if I should feel fomo about that choice

You want to do 10 fooligan jobs to upgrade the lab and then never do them again because they are huge time sinks and pay like garbage.

More importantly though this week the Nightclub is boosted, which is huge if you have the businesses and/or the ability to idle your game

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