Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 12:47:07 GMT
Here's a bit of advice that I've found from trying to do Heists to earn money relatively easily: Spam the shit out of Fleeca. Hear me out on my reasons why.
Now firstly I know that it pays relatively little compared to any other Heist, especially if you decide to throw in challenges such as All In Order, Loyalty (which pay $1m each) and Criminal Mastermind (which pays $10m). My main points on why spamming Fleeca is a good option come down to four main reasons: time, risk, ease and accessibility.
Time
While it is a Heist and longer than any mission, Fleeca is relatively short. Assuming relatively fast loading times via a good internet connection, no deaths and competent players, you can do both Setup missions and the Finale in about 20 to 30 minutes, give or take. Assuming hard difficulty and a 50% cut from the Finale you'll get a little more than $100k from this all up: 50% of the take on hard is about $73k, and the two Setups pay about $15k each.
The Criminal Mastermind challenge alone, on the other hand, pays out $10m, plus all the money earned from the Heists, but takes about seven hours if Broughy's run on XB1 is anything to go by. This works out to spending about 15 to 20 times the time, to get (stab in the dark) 140 times the cash. The reason why I'd still opt for Fleeca given this information is what brings me to my second reason.
Risk
The biggest drawback to the Criminal Mastermind is by far risk, obviously. One death can undo hours of progress (if you don't manage to turn the system off in time) and throw you right back to square one, whereas Fleeca, or any other Heist really, can just be quick-restarted with no drawback other than a few extra minutes spent. With Fleeca the checkpoints usually aren't far apart so if you do need to restart for any reason, you won't get set back by much at all.
Ease
Not only is Fleeca much less risky than attempting the Criminal Mastermind challenge, it's also way easier. You get $15k just for driving to a bank, another $15k for stealing a car from a few gangsters and $73k (again, assuming 50% cut) for either pointing a gun at some people and driving under a Cargobob, or hacking a bank and drilling a hole - things which any experienced GTA player with a triple-digit IQ should be able to handle without breaking a sweat. With the other Heists and hence the Criminal Mastermind challenge you have to attempt everything the Heist world has to throw at you, some of which can be damn difficult if you're with randoms (looking at you, Humane Raid - Deliver EMP and Series A - Trash Truck). While these do pay out quite a bit more than Fleeca does they generally take a lot longer.
Accessibility
What I mean by this, is how easy it is to initiate. Above all, the Heist only requires two people, which makes it easier to find a random person to join and start compared to the other Heists which need four; on top of that, being Fleeca it's seen as a bit of easy money, whereas the other four Heists aren't so much so, thus random people are less likely to join if they get an invite to one of those, again making it easier to actually start the thing.
What I also mean is the cash flow, although "accessible" probably isn't quite the correct term. To put it into perspective, say the entirety of Fleeca earns you $100k per half hour as per the previous figures, you could do nothing but Fleeca for seven hours and earn a total of $1.4m. On the contrary you could also use those seven hours to do the Criminal Mastermind challenge, which would net you about ten times that total if you take the Setup missions and the Heist Finale cuts into account. However, with the Fleeca method you're earning $100k every half hour, whereas the supposed $14m from all five Heists plus Criminal Mastermind comes less often in bigger chunks: $10m from the challenge only comes right at the end, and the other $4m is split up into several portions at a time that aren't earned as fast as doing Fleeca. TL;DR, what I'm trying to say is that smaller portions of cash earned more often can be more beneficial than larger ones earned less often, even if the larger portions do add up to more in the end.
So that concludes my essay. Sorry for the long post.
Now firstly I know that it pays relatively little compared to any other Heist, especially if you decide to throw in challenges such as All In Order, Loyalty (which pay $1m each) and Criminal Mastermind (which pays $10m). My main points on why spamming Fleeca is a good option come down to four main reasons: time, risk, ease and accessibility.
Time
While it is a Heist and longer than any mission, Fleeca is relatively short. Assuming relatively fast loading times via a good internet connection, no deaths and competent players, you can do both Setup missions and the Finale in about 20 to 30 minutes, give or take. Assuming hard difficulty and a 50% cut from the Finale you'll get a little more than $100k from this all up: 50% of the take on hard is about $73k, and the two Setups pay about $15k each.
The Criminal Mastermind challenge alone, on the other hand, pays out $10m, plus all the money earned from the Heists, but takes about seven hours if Broughy's run on XB1 is anything to go by. This works out to spending about 15 to 20 times the time, to get (stab in the dark) 140 times the cash. The reason why I'd still opt for Fleeca given this information is what brings me to my second reason.
Risk
The biggest drawback to the Criminal Mastermind is by far risk, obviously. One death can undo hours of progress (if you don't manage to turn the system off in time) and throw you right back to square one, whereas Fleeca, or any other Heist really, can just be quick-restarted with no drawback other than a few extra minutes spent. With Fleeca the checkpoints usually aren't far apart so if you do need to restart for any reason, you won't get set back by much at all.
Ease
Not only is Fleeca much less risky than attempting the Criminal Mastermind challenge, it's also way easier. You get $15k just for driving to a bank, another $15k for stealing a car from a few gangsters and $73k (again, assuming 50% cut) for either pointing a gun at some people and driving under a Cargobob, or hacking a bank and drilling a hole - things which any experienced GTA player with a triple-digit IQ should be able to handle without breaking a sweat. With the other Heists and hence the Criminal Mastermind challenge you have to attempt everything the Heist world has to throw at you, some of which can be damn difficult if you're with randoms (looking at you, Humane Raid - Deliver EMP and Series A - Trash Truck). While these do pay out quite a bit more than Fleeca does they generally take a lot longer.
Accessibility
What I mean by this, is how easy it is to initiate. Above all, the Heist only requires two people, which makes it easier to find a random person to join and start compared to the other Heists which need four; on top of that, being Fleeca it's seen as a bit of easy money, whereas the other four Heists aren't so much so, thus random people are less likely to join if they get an invite to one of those, again making it easier to actually start the thing.
What I also mean is the cash flow, although "accessible" probably isn't quite the correct term. To put it into perspective, say the entirety of Fleeca earns you $100k per half hour as per the previous figures, you could do nothing but Fleeca for seven hours and earn a total of $1.4m. On the contrary you could also use those seven hours to do the Criminal Mastermind challenge, which would net you about ten times that total if you take the Setup missions and the Heist Finale cuts into account. However, with the Fleeca method you're earning $100k every half hour, whereas the supposed $14m from all five Heists plus Criminal Mastermind comes less often in bigger chunks: $10m from the challenge only comes right at the end, and the other $4m is split up into several portions at a time that aren't earned as fast as doing Fleeca. TL;DR, what I'm trying to say is that smaller portions of cash earned more often can be more beneficial than larger ones earned less often, even if the larger portions do add up to more in the end.
So that concludes my essay. Sorry for the long post.
