Grand Theft Auto V

[ACamp1900]

Has anyone else purcahsed the auto scrap yard... I purchased it last night... but have no clue how to make money with it... it says to bring in scrapped cars???

 

[ACamp1900]

What is the best property in terms of return on investment??? I want to buy low and make lots of money...

 

[ulukinatme]

Can anyone explain to me quick ways to make lots of cash by doing side stuff? And yes i know about the stock market

This has actually been my biggest gripe with the game: making money. Missions are actually a HORRIBLE way to make money in the game. Most of your contacts don't pay you crap, if anything. Most mission payouts are 3k-7k, or nothing at all. Aside from this chump change theres the initial heist, which gets you a little starting coin (And may go fast if you decide to stock up on guns), a very late heist that gets you a little more decent coin (Too late in the game imo if you're doing side missions as they pop up), and the final big heist which of course trumps all others. Aside from those 3 heist missions, the only missions I've considered really profitable are the Assassination missions that have already been mentioned because of their obvious stock implications.

In a nutshell, I'm disappointed with the lack of missions that generate intermediate income halfway through the game. Theres not much you can do to generate 50-100k in a mission mid game to pickup necessary cash for properties. Unless you decide to tediously play the stock market (If you're saving Assassination missions for the end, and you should) after the initial heist, you're not going to have enough coin to purchase more than a property or two before the end of the game. Until you do those last two heists at the very end of the game, your main source of income involves $5k security trucks, or $5k races with Franklin, or sticking up convenience stores for a piddly $500. It takes a lot of races to pickup $150k of cash to buy a poor towing company for a guy like Franklin....thats what I'm getting at here. The other damning fact is it can take quite a few in game weeks to pay off these properties before you're starting to make money off them (The Hen House is considered one of the better buys at $80k, but it still takes 70 in game weeks before you start turning a profit!).

What I would have liked to see is maybe some kind of repeatable Heist action where you could pick a number of generic locations to knock off, pick your team/strategy, and then knock the place over for a small profit. It doesn't have to be on the level of the big heist, it could be something like taking out a chain store, or a small credit union, or maybe something interesting like stealing some valuable item from someone for resell/ransom. Maybe stealing information that you use to blackmail someone for cash? I don't know, something more small time and simple that would be fun and would net you 20-50k a job for 20-25 minutes of work. It would be better than searching for security trucks all day or doing 30 races in a row. Plus it would give you a reason to use those crummy heist hires and build them up(Made the mistake of hiring a cheap one for the first job...lost 33% of my profits that way)

 

[rikkitikki08]

Yeah that's my biggest beef with the game, not enough ways to make lots of cash...each of my characters has about 750,000 dollars and that's not enough to buy businesses. Everyone i talk to says the lake on the south/east side of the mountain has tons of packages under neath the water. My buddy said one package had over 150,000 in it

 

[ulukinatme]

Yeah that's my biggest beef with the game, not enough ways to make lots of cash...each of my characters has about 750,000 dollars and that's not enough to buy businesses. Everyone i talk to says the lake on the south/east side of the mountain has tons of packages under neath the water. My buddy said one package had over 150,000 in it

150,000k wouldn't be bad at all. I've heard if you switch characters really fast after picking up a package, then switching back, rinse, repeat, you can continue to get the same package over and over again.

 

[dylan020]

150,000k wouldn't be bad at all. I've heard if you switch characters really fast after picking up a package, then switching back, rinse, repeat, you can continue to get the same package over and over again.

That does indeed work. I used F & M to pick up the 25k and 9k packages off Vespucci Beach and another up the coast a bit. All of about 10 minutes worth of switching and built up a nice 900k bank roll for Franklin.

 

[ulukinatme]

I'm up to about $180 million on each of the three characters now, with 2 assassination missions left to go I think. I should be able to jack that up to about $720 million each once I finish those final side missions and play the stocks.

 

[blueNDgold44]

Anyone tried out the online yet?

 

[#1rish]

The Franklin Conspiracy: Why Gamers Decided The Police In "GTA V" Are Racist

Anyone experience this yet playing with Franklin? Haven't noticed anything too different when playing with Trevor or Michael. Will have to test it out tonight. Some of the tweets about it are pretty funny.

My buddy said he honked his horn near a cop and got 1 star. Sped away and got 2.

 

[ulukinatme]

The Franklin Conspiracy: Why Gamers Decided The Police In "GTA V" Are Racist

Anyone experience this yet playing with Franklin? Haven't noticed anything too different when playing with Trevor or Michael. Will have to test it out tonight. Some of the tweets about it are pretty funny.

My buddy said he honked his horn near a cop and got 1 star. Sped away and got 2.

I've had a few occurrences where stuff like this has happened, but I've also had them happen with Michael and Trevor. I walked up to a cop outside of the impound as Michael the other day, no stars, just standing there, and I suddenly got 1 star. No idea what happened there.

 

[ulukinatme]

btw, do we have a crew started on here for everyone to join? I heard PS3 and XBox users can create one crew that both can join. No need for 2 crews.

 

[dylan020]

I'm in if anybody has a crew! I'm curious how this online thing is gonna work out.

 

[ACamp1900]

If that does indeed happen with Franklin it’s just another in a long line of tongue in cheek jokes by Rockstar... considering all the other stuff in this game, if THAT gets people riled up this country has a sickness when it comes to discussing race.

 

[ulukinatme]

If that does indeed happen with Franklin it’s just another in a long line of tongue in cheek jokes by Rockstar... considering all the other stuff in this game, if THAT gets people riled up this country has a sickness when it comes to discussing race.

I don't think this is necessarily a spoiler, but during one of the heist missions you have to pickup some masks as part of the setup. You get to choose which masks each team member wears. I noticed they had some monkey/ape masks available, and one of the mission bonuses at the end said something like "Stereotype" or something along those lines. I didn't end up getting that bonus, but now I'm kind of curious what the intention is there...

 

[Veer option]

The Franklin Conspiracy: Why Gamers Decided The Police In "GTA V" Are Racist

Anyone experience this yet playing with Franklin? Haven't noticed anything too different when playing with Trevor or Michael. Will have to test it out tonight. Some of the tweets about it are pretty funny.

My buddy said he honked his horn near a cop and got 1 star. Sped away and got 2.

I dont think it has anything to do with a racist conspiracy. I can get into as much **** with Trevor or Michael just as quickly. I just think the police AI in GTAV are a little too trigger happy for my taste. For instance, I playing Trevor and I was near the safe house near the beach. A couple of police were talking to a hooker and I walked up to them. They told me to bugger off so I walk a little ways away but still within listening distance to what they were saying. They both turn towards me and I get a star. Of course I take off running and instantly get 2 stars and now with those trigger happy twats filling my back full of holes.

 

[edgesofsanity]

All right, let's get this ball rolling - just created an Irish Envy group, named simply enough "Irish Envy" - I can send invites, or you can search for it. I figure to just leave it in open status for now and see if any outsiders end up joining.

 

[ACamp1900]

What system??

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

All right, let's get this ball rolling - just created an Irish Envy group, named simply enough "Irish Envy" - I can send invites, or you can search for it. I figure to just leave it in open status for now and see if any outsiders end up joining.

I searched for it on social club and it didn't come up.

 

[Kanye West]

What is the best property in terms of return on investment??? I want to buy low and make lots of money...

The Doc will bring in 805000 dollars if you do all the missions. The movie Theatres are great if you have the money though.

 

[Kanye West]

Also invest in Vanilla Unicorn when its super low, it will always bounce back up and you can buy the stock for 2 dollars and sell it for 5 which is a HUGE return on investment with enough stocks. Just have to time it right.

 

[ulukinatme]

I searched for it on social club and it didn't come up.

I've heard that searching for crews on social club isn't working very well right now. Other forums I've been on have had trouble finding crews which have already been created. I thought someone said if you have a friend that's already in a crew, you may be able to join if you search by their username or something?

What system??

People on BuckeyePlanet said that the crews work across both PS3 and XBox360. I don't think you can play together in the same world of course, but each crew you create spans the servers and migrate to both systems. BP claimed they had both PS3 and XB players in one, single crew.

 

[ulukinatme]

Anyone been able to get into GTA Online after 5pm est? I got home from work and I'm just getting errors "Can't create/join session." I'm assuming it's because millions of people are trying to get in right now.

 

[ACamp1900]

I honestly won't even bother with it for about a week... a game this big and in demand, with all the usuall launch bugs... yeah give it at least a week imo.

 

[edgesofsanity]

What system??

If you have Rockstar social club linked to your account, it should work for all systems. I'm on xbox myself. Just PM me your Social Club ID and i'll add you.

 

[ACamp1900]

Is this the first game to do such a thing?? I was not aware games could do cross company like that,.

 

[ACamp1900]

I've heard that searching for crews on social club isn't working very well right now. Other forums I've been on have had trouble finding crews which have already been created. I thought someone said if you have a friend that's already in a crew, you may be able to join if you search by their username or something?



People on BuckeyePlanet said that the crews work across both PS3 and XBox360. I don't think you can play together in the same world of course, but each crew you create spans the servers and migrate to both systems. BP claimed they had both PS3 and XB players in one, single crew.

dafaq are you doing on BuceyePlanet dawg???

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Anyone been able to get into GTA Online after 5pm est? I got home from work and I'm just getting errors "Can't create/join session." I'm assuming it's because millions of people are trying to get in right now.

I've seen a ton of people saying it's all f'ed up. I won't be able to try and get on until later tonight.

 

[edgesofsanity]

I've seen a ton of people saying it's all f'ed up. I won't be able to try and get on until later tonight.

Yeah - don't bother. It's getting worse with freezing up.

 

[JughedJones]

It's really frustrating right now. I've created three characters already, only to have them deleted when I try to log in.

It's kind of a fun process, but creating someone that doesn't look like they crawled out of a crackhouse on fire is difficult. Then to have them erased is a little maddening.

I'll try one more time around 10 or so (pst) tonight and call it good.

 

[ACamp1900]

Super Hippie knows technology/gaming??? dafaq??

I never knew