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 Sharps wrote:
Gah I give up, I really can't enjoy this game without worrying about my money. After every time I rob a store, finish a mission, I gotta deposit my money into the bank that isn't even "Safe" because you still lose them if you die.

Does anybody know the current prices to purchase GTA Money?

What?

 Sharps wrote:
Gah I give up, I really can't enjoy this game without worrying about my money. After every time I rob a store, finish a mission, I gotta deposit my money into the bank that isn't even "Safe" because you still lose them if you die.

Does anybody know the current prices to purchase GTA Money?

Spend some time looking for armored cars and the like, they carry a lot of money.

Micro transactions for cash packs are currently disabled due to bugs causing people to lose the in-game money that they've purchased.

You don't "lose" your money stored in your bank per se when you die, but dying and respawning does incur a fee (presumably, hospital fees). You only literally "lose" your money when you're carrying a lot of cash on you and you're killed. Other players can then take the money.

EDIT:

just played my most hilarious police chase so far...

A 4 player coop mission, we had to steal a fuel tanker and return it to a depot. I got on my Vader motorbike and gave a lift to the fourth player, the other 2 players went off ahead. I couldn't resist shooting out the tyres of cars we drove by using my sawn off shotgun, making them crash. But one car I disabled crashed head first into a wall, and apparently the driver was killed so the police came after me. Suddenly without warning a Police car rammed us from behind sending me and my passenger flying. We tried to defend ourselves but the cops killed us pretty quickly.

So, 2 min in, we're halfway to the fuel tanker and already we've out of spare lives. Not a good start. We respawn and make our way to the fuel tanker which by now is being driven by a player and being chased by at least 5 cop cars. So I drive alongside the cops, trying to shoot out their tyres and kill the drivers. But this one cop car, I must have shot in the engine one too many times. Just as I pulled alongside it and fired at it, it exploded, killing me and sending me soaring through the air.

But it seemed to have the desired effect. The cops stopped chasing the tanker truck and we won the mission.

I don't know if it's a complaint, but man the police are over-zealous in the online mode. I've seen it literally take 30 minutes to lose them before.

And it bugs out sometimes as well. We can sit there for 10 minutes with the stars flashing but never disappearing, and then you step out of the car the stars just go away.

Doesn't anybody want the Military to actually DO something when your just on a rampage? Its just like 5-6 miles off of LS, would be pretty neat if I would take on the marines, but they are too busy with terrorist crap rather than some criminal that just killed over 100 cops.

Yep. But of course in this universe, the government is corrupt, so I guess that adds it all up, along with the over-zealous cops.

So i picked up the game this past weekend (slightly late to the party i guess) and i gotta say, since the last GTA that i played, it seems a huge step up.

I do miss creating your own character (for the story... i do have the online thing going too), and I am not liking Franklin, or rather the idiots that he normally runs with, to me, it's like watching Django Unchained or something OTT like that.

It did somewhat upset me that the first time i entered online, i was not able to host my own game, and the typical troll types decided to whack me... a lot, while just trying to figure out the lay of the land and all :( i may have to jump in to do some of the jobs here tonight or sometime soon.

Alright guys, update 1.03 is AMAZING, I've been waiting like 8 DAYS.

You can't farm an exploit. That's it, no fixes, no "Character deletion solved" no "Heres your deleted character" no new nothing.

Plus they worry about farmers rather than the whole, oh you know character deletion thing.

******* Rockstar, I lost respect for them. Why the hell are they worrying about exploits more than the character deletion.

They are transforming into EA itself.

It couldn't possibly be that they have multiple people working on different problems right now, and that the "exploit" issue got fixed before the other, so they pushed that out. Couldn't be anything like that.

 djones520 wrote:
It couldn't possibly be that they have multiple people working on different problems right now, and that the "exploit" issue got fixed before the other, so they pushed that out. Couldn't be anything like that.

You're suggesting that most of the other issues may need to be thoroughly tested not just to see if they actually work this time around, but also for inter-compatibility before being rolled out, whereas patching a minor exploit wouldn't need nearly as much effort to fix.

Do you know just how preposterous that is?

I don't really describe it as an exploit, I mean if you want to replay the mission, and completed it fairly, you DESERVE to do it again.

The only reason why Rockstar patched this "Exploit" is because they want us to buy their GTA money and $1 billion dollars isn't enough for them.

This is not the Rockstar I know. Unless somebody is behind their back, higher up in the chain.

This game would be really cool if you could wear the things like gas masks and bike helmets off the bike like in the heists online, would love to look cool like that, but small things aside me and my friends are planning a big heist hope to turn a bog profit!

 The Dark Apostle wrote:
This game would be really cool if you could wear the things like gas masks and bike helmets off the bike like in the heists online, would love to look cool like that, but small things aside me and my friends are planning a big heist hope to turn a bog profit!

You can. Go to a clothes shot, buy some Helmets from the Hats shelf, then use the Inventory to equip them (hold Select / Back). Movie masks can be bought from the Vespucci Movie Mask store IIRC, on the south west beach. Not sure about Gas Mask.

Nice! Also I'm kindastuck there's no way of earning a medium amount of money, I can rob shops for 1000-2000 but I need 200,000 to do heists, any ideas?

 The Dark Apostle wrote:
Nice! Also I'm kindastuck there's no way of earning a medium amount of money, I can rob shops for 1000-2000 but I need 200,000 to do heists, any ideas?

AFAIK heists have not yet been added to the Online mode. They'll be introduced in an upcoming patch. You also don't need to grind for the $200K apartment, Rockstar has announced a free giveaway of $500,000 (in two $250K payments) to ALL PLAYERS who've played this month, as an apology for the dodgy start of GTA Online. The first payment is coming next week IIRC.


However, if you need cash in general, play Survival Missions. A good, well coordinated team of 4 players that all castle up in a defensible location (e.g. the roof of the hut by the bus and airplane scrapyard in 'Boneyard') can easily survive all the way to Wave 10. Successfully completing the tenth and final Wave gives you $20,000. Its a lot of fun, you just hole up and mow down waves of enemies. No fuss, just shoot every crack-addled, meth scoffing Redneck in sight.

However the super accuracy of AI shooting in general can make it extremely frustrating if you get overrun. Eventually there comes a point when you're surrounded by 10, 20, 30 enemies and you can't peek your head above cover, not even a split second,, without it getting blown off. I've even been killed when the AI shoots my hand as I blindly spray bullets over the wall. if you move along a wall to get better cover, enough of your head is exposed for the AI to headshot you. And they can even headshot you when you're sitting still, behind a wall, if just the very tip of your head is exposed.

The laser precise accuracy of the AI makes the cover system somewhat broken.



Also, my Xbox GT is 'Corax XIX'. Feel free to add me people. (send a pm to say you're from Dakka).

Bump this back up seeing as how the online mode is pretty stable now.

Anyone still palying? Looking to do some races and grind the performance parts if anyone's interested, otherwise we can just mess about in jets and what-not.

You can find me as Two Tone Wyvern on Xbox Live. Let's blow stuff up!

I'm still playing. I'll be getting the PS4 soon though, so it's bound to get less play time from me.

Rockstar really needs to fix the spawn system. We NEED to be able to choose our spawn location. Its far too easy for a player with a grudge to spawn camp other people. And if they get out their tank, or Buzzard chopper then everyone else might as well just quit.

At the very least, when you die you should have a list of locations for you to respawn at. Your last location (where you died), your Crew or Friends locations, and a range of landmarks across the map...the airports, hospitals, your Apartment and garages etc. You need to be able to put distance between you and your tormenter.

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Rockstar really needs to fix the spawn system. We NEED to be able to choose our spawn location. Its far too easy for a player with a grudge to spawn camp other people. And if they get out their tank, or Buzzard chopper then everyone else might as well just quit.

At the very least, when you die you should have a list of locations for you to respawn at. Your last location (where you died), your Crew or Friends locations, and a range of landmarks across the map...the airports, hospitals, your Apartment and garages etc. You need to be able to put distance between you and your tormenter.

Pretty bang on.

Also, Passive Mode should make you 100% safe from other players. Its too easy to negate, you just run them over.

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Also, Passive Mode should make you 100% safe from other players. Its too easy to negate, you just run them over.

If you're having problems with griefers just 'join random job' on your phone, if you're quick enough you wont get killed. I spend VERY little time in the overworld. I usually jump on top of something (to avoid being run over),turn on Passive mode and bank my money, then join a job, when i'm in my car and i notice someone chasing me i Join Random Job with the phone. The only time i spend in the overworld is to buy guns and mod my cars. The only time i turn off passive mode is If i see a Gang Territory attack or Supply drop.

That might work if my gakky connection didn't have a tendency to drop me from games and jobs that I'm not hosting.

Also, I found an easy (but cheap) way to survive and and claim your own bounty...Just start a private, invite only session and wait for your bounty to expire.

Its much less fun than a high speed car chase evading bounty hunters, but you're left with little choice when 2 or 3 players all get out their Buzzard attack choppers at once and hunt you down.

I spent hours yesterday trying to shake my $9000 bounty, but the moment I spawned, I had a guy camping outside my house waiting for me to leave. I waited 20 min till he gave up and left, then I headed over to the Vespucci heli port (by the Marina) and grabbed a chopper. Before I'd even taken off, someone in a Buzzard was strafing me firing missiles. So I quickly switched to a SP character (D-Pad) so he couldn't kill me.

I joined a new session and tried again, grabbing a helicopter. I flew north to Sandy Shores airfield, tried to swap over to a plane (the standard light aircraft), and again, a Buzzard appeared out of nowhere.

So I joined a new server. This time I was successful in swapping to a plane and I flew way out over the ocean. But I went too far out of bounds, my engine cut out and a Buzzard was able to catch up to me. I bailed out and used my parachute, but he was still trying to kill me...

So at this point I switched to a private session, left the xbox and went to cook something.


Its not the Buzzard itself that pisses me off...Its that a player whos unlocked one becomes almost completely untouchable to everyone else who havn't yet obtained it and so those players have no way of defending themselves.

If you could obtain a Buzzard that spawned periodically on the map at landmarks such as the FIB / NOOSE headquarters, then that would at least give low lvl players a chance to grab a Buzzard and fight back against high lvl players.

technically they do, the military base has jets that are fairly easy to steal that any level player can get.