Money - An industry in decline

[Ebass]

Now this isn't a whine thread, I love the game and think its almost perfect.

 

But does anyone else think there should be more ways of making money after the game is complete?

 

I mean, checking my stats with the game 70% complete I've picked up a total of 20,000 dollars off the ground. Races only give you $500, Little Jacobs missions give you bugger all, and getting wasted costs what? $10,000 or so? Not to mention buying weapons is a VERY expensive business for those you can't get by wasting people (RPGs, Grenades, Sniper rifle)

 

I've played 35 hours or so and picked up $20,000.

 

So for every time I get wasted I'll have to spend 17 hours picking up money to break even. Or do 20 races (which take about 5 minutes each, so thats about 1:40 minutes not taking into account the time taken to drive there, and get new cars after ones are smashed about)

 

Robbing people at ATMs rarely gives more than a couple of hundred, blowing up the cash trucks is the only real way but they don't spawn very often at all.

 

I figure everything I do from now on I'm just gonna be declining in cash till eventually I have nothing and just have to cheat?

 

Design flaw at all?

[hark80]

I wish I had an answer but I haven't progressed far enough to have insight into the economy; however, I do want to note that this post is in stark contrast to several I have read complaining that you have way too much money and nothing to spend it on.

[boogernut]

since when does being wasted cost 10,000 dollars? i am not trying to argue, it's just, the last time i died, i was charged about 30$ and retained my guns.......

[Ebass]

Yea I currently have $800,000 and nothing to spend it on.

 

The point is that despite having nothing "Real" to spend it on. After completion of the game, if you want to screw about. Getting 6 stars, firing off RPGs at everything, dying a lot there is no way to earn money as fast as you are going to lose it.

 

Hell forget earning as fast as you lose it, theres no way to time effectivly break even, even if you spend five times as much time specifically trying to make money as you do spending it tooling up for one 10-15 minute rampage.

 

And as to wasted costing a crapload, my medical bill is 130,000 dollars and I've died something like 28 times. So more like $5000 dollars perhaps.

[cntk]

weapons can end up weighing on your balance, especially the oh so fun rocket launchers. i've already spent over 300k just on weapons. 100k on healthcare. i suppose you could just mug people at the atm and get hold of the armored vans but that's all. burglar missions a la san andreas would've been nice. i suppose once the moneys up one will have to look for the weapon spawn points and hope that one is for the rocket launcher.

 

there are already a bunch of threads about this btw.

 

ah and i believe the money you shell out when wasted depends on what weapons you're carrying, hence why you get to keep them. plausible.

[Raynos]

lol true... all the other threads say theres too much money and theres nothing to spend on.

 

Im glad that money is a rare commodity in this game. In all the other gta's i had too much money at the end...... i'd be customizing every single car so that i could spend it.....

 

You can always pick up your weapons from the places they spawn etc...... Thats the only way i can think of, of making your money last longer....... imagine that, having 20bucks left and tryin to hail a cab.... lol

[DQ_4944]

Just dont think that making all this money is a waste.

[boogernut]

lol true... all the other threads say theres too much money and theres nothing to spend on.

 

Im glad that money is a rare commodity in this game. In all the other gta's i had too much money at the end...... i'd be customizing every single car so that i could spend it.....

 

You can always pick up your weapons from the places they spawn etc...... Thats the only way i can think of, of making your money last longer....... imagine that, having 20bucks left and tryin to hail a cab.... lol

wait... but seriously... i don't get what's costing so much.....

 

Like i said above, when i got wasted, they charged me barely anything, what is everyone talking about in charging 10,000 dollars?

 

I'd like to know so i'm ready when i charged majorly...

[mufc]

Ive got $450,000 and ive spent 1,200 on clothes and nothing on weapons

i also spend a quite abit of time mugging people at atms, yesterday i mugged around 12.

 

 

 

 

 

when you habe more money the hospital charges you more, when your really rich it can be like $10 000

[Raynos]

wait... but seriously... i don't get what's costing so much.....

 

Like i said above, when i got wasted, they charged me barely anything, what is everyone talking about in charging 10,000 dollars?

 

I'd like to know so i'm ready when i charged majorly...

you my friend are lucky.

 

I've died 18 times, money spent on "health care" is $44,103.

 

Now, strippers, prostitutes and food will be included in there.

Food = $456

Strippers = $200

Prostitutes = $140

 

Thus, dying cost me a net of $43,307.

 

On average, $2,406 per death.

 

Now this fluctuates depending on what weapons you have when you get wasted.

 

So yeah, health care as expected is expensive these days.

[BlackMamba47]

How on Earth are you 70% finished with the game and only have 20k. After doing Three Leaf Clover, that nets you about 250k, and if you decide to work with Dmitri, that nets you another 250k, which should be well before you hit 70% completion unless you've been doing the stuff on the side before the main missions. Trust me, you'll end up with more money than you

'll ever need in the end.

[Infernus08]

 

wait... but seriously... i don't get what's costing so much.....

 

Like i said above, when i got wasted, they charged me barely anything, what is everyone talking about in charging 10,000 dollars?

 

I'd like to know so i'm ready when i charged majorly...

From my experience of playing it does start off cheap, but now after racking up alot of cash (300K), its getting expensive dying.

 

So I can only assume that the cost of the medical care is means tested against your wealth (ie 2% of your money for example). Therefore the more cash you have the more it costs if you die. I think SR was similar as in the late game I lost shed loads of cash if i died.

[Luck of the Irish]

How can you be 70% complete with only 20,000?

I'm 35% into the game and I've got over 300,000.

[Ebass]

 

How on Earth are you 70% finished with the game and only have 20k. After doing Three Leaf Clover, that nets you about 250k, and if you decide to work with Dmitri, that nets you another 250k, which should be well before you hit 70% completion unless you've been doing the stuff on the side before the main missions. Trust me, you'll end up with more money than you

'll ever need in the end.

 

 

How can you be 70% complete with only 20,000?

I'm 35% into the game and I've got over 300,000.

 

Please read the posts properly before requiring, I said I'd picked up 20,000 OFF THE GROUND, i.e in those little money bundles.

[lasventurasman]

Now this isn't a whine thread, I love the game and think its almost perfect.

 

But does anyone else think there should be more ways of making money after the game is complete?

 

I mean, checking my stats with the game 70% complete I've picked up a total of 20,000 dollars off the ground. Races only give you $500, Little Jacobs missions give you bugger all, and getting wasted costs what? $10,000 or so? Not to mention buying weapons is a VERY expensive business for those you can't get by wasting people (RPGs, Grenades, Sniper rifle)

 

I've played 35 hours or so and picked up $20,000.

 

So for every time I get wasted I'll have to spend 17 hours picking up money to break even. Or do 20 races (which take about 5 minutes each, so thats about 1:40 minutes not taking into account the time taken to drive there, and get new cars after ones are smashed about)

 

Robbing people at ATMs rarely gives more than a couple of hundred, blowing up the cash trucks is the only real way but they don't spawn very often at all.

 

I figure everything I do from now on I'm just gonna be declining in cash till eventually I have nothing and just have to cheat?

 

Design flaw at all?

As you progress in the game there are missions where you earn more. There is one particularly enjoyable mission where you earn $250000