Business Ideas

[Carlover325]

I really hope owning businesses is included in GTA V. I know one I would really like to see is a car lot. Something similar to this:

 

LS Motors:

-A large lot that can accommodate many vehicles. For vehicles not found on the lot, you have access to the office. You can walk up to your desk and hit L1 to access an order sheet. From the order sheet you can choose what vehicle and what color. Once you've ordered the vehicle, it spawns in a spot right outside the office.

-A couple of side missions to procure several vehicles. Once each mission is completed, that vehicle will be available at your lot.

-You can eventually have access to all vehicles in the game from your lot. But only after either buying them or completing the side missions. Once you buy the car, you can spawn it from the office as often as you like.

-Income based upon how many vehicles you have access to ordering on your lot.

 

So what are some ideas you have for businesses?

Edited April 29, 2012 by Carlover325

[_SMOKEY_]

Since Vinewood will be in the game, you could probably have your own Film studio where you make videos w a video editor provided w the game, and upload it to R* Social Club,youtube, etc. and get paid based on the amount of views it gets

 

[RipGore]

Since Vinewood will be in the game, you could probably have your own Film studio where you make videos w a video editor provided w the game, and upload it to R* Social Club,youtube, etc. and get paid based on the amount of views it gets

WOW actually, that's a great idea. Make money in-game depending upon your views on the video. That sounds sick.

[TheGodDamnMaster]

They should have a brothel with male prostitutes. Brucie, Bernie, Roman and Niko can all be prostitutes and the new character can learn about what they've been up to since GTA IV as he drives them to their clients.

[MrcTOtheJ]

I’ve had some ideas for empire and business construction in the past, not so much as an idea for one business, but a feature as a whole.

 

You’d be able to buy various buildings though out the map to make into businesses, they might all ready have one there, or just be an empty building. You’d be able to set up what type of legal business there if you want, on top of an illegal operation as well, such as Drug manufacturing, or trafficking or what not.

 

Of course certain businesses make better covers, such as a car lot or garage might work for a cover for a chop shop or auto theft ring, but wouldn’t be the best place to hide a cocaine factory.

 

The cover business would keep the heat down on your illegal ventures, where as if you just have an illegal business running in one location you’d get your heat raised, and might be busted by the police, getting a call from an employee telling you about the bust in progress, and you can go stop it or let them reposes your property, which you can later buy from a police sale site online. Of course stopping the raid would increase heat, but save you some cash in the long run. Heat could also go down by having people under your employ stop doing what ever’s going on illegally at that place of business for a short time too.

 

As for types of business I have few ideas:

 

Legal Business Ventures:

-Car Lot

-Pay ‘n Spray/Car Modification shop

-Convince Store

-Club or Bar

-Gun Shop (legal guns would be sold at the counter of course)

-Printing Shop

-Chemical Plant or Some Type of Factory (good cover for making drugs)

-Pawn Shop

-Porn Studio

 

Illegal Business Ventures:

-Chop Shop/Car Theft Ring

-Drug Trafficking/Dealing Ring

-Brothel

-Drug Manufacturing Ring

-Gun Smuggling Ring

-Theft Ring

-Counterfiting Ring

 

 

Also certain business might give another a boost in profits, and lower costs to do whatever it is going on there, such as a Drug Manufacturing plant, would lower the costs of getting drugs for your dealers, because you’re making them, running a criminal Monopoly if you will.

Edited April 29, 2012 by Mr.c TO the J

[RipGore]

Reply to post above me ^^

 

 

Chemical Plant or Some Type of Factory (good cover for making drugs)

 

 

Then the health inspector comes...

[MrcTOtheJ]

Reply to post above me ^^

 

 

Chemical Plant or Some Type of Factory (good cover for making drugs)

 

 

Then the health inspector comes...

Well there’d be mini missions to get rid of heat and such, and to increase productivity, one of them could involve bribing or "geting rid of" some nosey health inspectors.

 

If all else fails while he's inspecting the place, he might happen to fall into a hot vat of something, accidents happen all the time you know.

[RipGore]

 

Reply to post above me ^^

 

 

Chemical Plant or Some Type of Factory (good cover for making drugs)

 

 

Then the health inspector comes...

Well there’d be mini missions to get rid of heat and such, and to increase productivity, one of them could involve bribing or "geting rid of" some nosey health inspectors.

 

If all else fails while he's inspecting the place, he might happen to fall into a hot vat of something, accidents happen all the time you know.

BRIBERY. I knew that was coming. The government is tight.

 

So what? A health inspector falls into an oven. Send another one right over.

 

 

 

Bribery, oh ya. The government checks chemical plants by all means. Criminals attempting to reduce that heat results to 10% chance to impossible.

[MrcTOtheJ]

So what's your idea for geting rid of health inspectors? Hell there's bound to be corupt ones to bribe. Not to mention GTA is full of corupt officals.

[RipGore]

That's why I mentioned the government.

 

It is government regulation to inspect these chemical plants; I assume not only health inspectors search them, but other types of government officials.

 

 

Heck, then have Rockstar make them ALLLLLL corrupt!

[MrcTOtheJ]

Yeah probably, hadn't considered that, especially if the cops find out if it's owned by a known criminal, or a suspected one.

 

Maybe one of the missions could involve geting an inside source some how, that way you could get a small fore warning on it occasionally, wouldn't be fool proof by any means, but you might be able to get a window of time to call your employees and have them shut down anything illicit.

 

That could work too.

[Carlover325]

 

I’ve had some ideas for empire and business construction in the past, not so much as an idea for one business, but a feature as a whole.

 

You’d be able to buy various buildings though out the map to make into businesses, they might all ready have one there, or just be an empty building. You’d be able to set up what type of  legal business there if you want, on top of an illegal operation as well, such as Drug manufacturing, or trafficking or what not.

 

Of course certain businesses make better covers, such as a car lot or garage might work for a cover for a chop shop or auto theft ring, but wouldn’t be the best place to hide a cocaine factory.

 

The cover business would keep the heat down on your illegal ventures, where as if you just have an illegal business running in one location you’d get your heat raised, and might be busted by the police, getting a call from an employee telling you about the bust in progress, and you can go stop it or let them reposes your property, which you can later buy from a police sale site online. Of course stopping the raid would increase heat, but save you some cash in the long run. Heat could also go down by having people under your employ stop doing what ever’s going on illegally at that place of business for a short time too.

 

As for types of business I have few ideas:

 

Legal Business Ventures:

-Car Lot

-Pay ‘n Spray/Car Modification shop

-Convince Store

-Club or Bar

-Gun Shop (legal guns would be sold at the counter of course)

-Printing Shop

-Chemical Plant or Some Type of Factory (good cover for making drugs)

-Pawn Shop

-Porn Studio

 

Illegal Business Ventures:

-Chop Shop/Car Theft Ring

-Drug Trafficking/Dealing Ring

-Brothel

-Drug Manufacturing Ring

-Gun Smuggling Ring

-Theft Ring

-Counterfiting Ring

 

 

Also certain business might give another a boost in profits, and lower costs to do whatever it is going on there, such as a Drug Manufacturing plant, would lower the costs of getting drugs for your dealers, because you’re making them, running a criminal Monopoly if you will.

I think those are some really good ideas. I especially like the idea of buying a blank business, and turning it into whatever you'd like, or at least whatever business will fit in the location (after all, you can't fit a car lot in a strip mall).

 

I also like the idea of buying an existing business, such as a sleazy mote that appears dirty and rundown.

-You can choose to keep it the way it is, which is a motel where they charge by the hour and frequented by prostitutes. This would be a great place to set up a prostitution ring of your own.

-Or you can upgrade it into a nice hotel, which has a clean and upscale appearance. You can keep the prostitution ring, but they are much classier and make more money, giving you a larger cut.

Edited April 29, 2012 by Carlover325

[MrcTOtheJ]

Huh, I hadn't considered Motels or Hotels, good cover for a brothel, and sleaze bucket motels in the deserts arround LS would most likely be a dime a dozen. Good way for an enterpriseing entrepenure to get into the crime business.

[RipGore]

I have no knowledge of how the criminal system works, but there are tutorials lol.

Perhaps, you can associate with the Columbian cartel, and execute the trade. They make their money; you make yours:

 

Drug Factory

[Carlover325]

And as for the heat thing. If they raid, you could just have to pay a "fine" (bribe). Similar to when you get arrested in any GTA game. I mean, you can kill hundreds of people in GTA before getting caught. All you do is pay a fine, and you're back on the street.

[MrcTOtheJ]

I have no knowledge of how the criminal system works, but there are tutorials lol.

 

Drug Factory

LMFAO.

 

They need to have a parody of that in V, for sure.

 

Imagine the protag looking to move up in the food chain so to speak, and talking about wanting to get into making an organization of his own, and then his friend or associate he’d talking to just goes "Hey, just go to www.crimetutorials.org man" would fit in kind of well with all the parodies they make in GTA games lol.

[RipGore]

And as for the heat thing. If they raid, you could just have to pay a "fine" (bribe). Similar to when you get arrested in any GTA game. I mean, you can kill hundreds of people in GTA before getting caught. All you do is pay a fine, and you're back on the street.

Yep so true; the only way to make GTA keep going...

[meson1]

I had a very similar idea to, Mr.c TO the J's, a couple of years ago in a previous life. I reposted it on a thread back in November and as we're on the same topic, I'll repost it here too.

 

 

I have never played VCS.  But here's an idea I thought up some time ago that could be a part of an Empire building system.  This idea extends the theme of vehicle crime in "Grand Theft Auto". Here's how:

 

At some point, mid to late in the game, you get to set up your own vehicle crime operations.  A dynamic unending system that continues to work even after you complete the storyline and get 100%. Scattered throughout the city there are a dozen or so enterable warehouses and industrial buildings usually in industrial areas.  You can purchase these buildings and invest money to set up one of three types of car crime operations.  But these do not run themselves; you only get money from each operation as you deliver the cars to them.

 

The first and cheapest to set up is a chop shop.  You deliver cars to the property where it is broken for parts and you get the money for the parts sold.  You can deliver any car to one of these.

 

The second is an import/export operation.  These only operate out of properties down on the docks.  You deliver vehicles for export to order (this has been done before, but hell, why not?).  Also vehicles are imported and you have to deliver them to their new owners.

 

The third is the ringing operation.  It costs the most to set up.  Cars delivered are resprayed, given new license plates, vin numbers and documents.  Initially you can only bring those that are on the order book and then they have to be delivered.  Later you get to buy a car showroom which allows you to put any car through the ringing operation and get paid for it.

 

But that's not all.  Each operation would gain "heat" as you arrive with each vehicle, but reduce gradually over time if left alone.  The "heat" added by bringing each vehicle is related to how expensive and exclusive the vehicle is and what your wanted status is when you arrive.  If any given operation gains too much "heat" it's busted by the police.  You lose the property, the money invested and you gain a four star wanted status which you will have to get rid of.  Basically, this will happen when you arrive in the property and exit the car, so at that point the police will raid your operation and you will have the opportunity to escape.

 

You can shut down the operation at any time, but you don't get back all the money you paid for the property and setting up the operation.  The property retains the heat it gained whether it was busted or whether you shut down the operation voluntarily, though it will diminish slowly over time.  You can run multiple operations all over the city at the same time.

 

To determine how much heat a property has you can pay a snitch to find out how much the police know about it.  Also, visual in-game clues are provided when an operation gets close to being busted because the police will stake out your property either from a parked unmarked car or van, or you might spot someone watching from the window of a nearby property a short distance away.

 

In fact here's my original, original thread: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=392519

 

Mr.c TO the J, we think alike it seems. I like the additional criminal schemes like the drug labs and such.

Edited April 29, 2012 by meson1

[MrcTOtheJ]

It seems great minds think alike. I once had a thread for this too once, it was awhile after the trailer came out.

 

You have some great ideas too man. Really like them.

 

Here's the thread I made, it died rather quickly due to being made so close to the trailer release, and it got quickly killed by the theory topics. http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...ire+Constuction

 

It goes into more detail on what I'd like to see happen, like with the heat feature.

[Doland J. Trump]

One of the best topics in a while. I think they should adopt the VCS business system but heavily revamp it and give you a bit more control over what make and what price you sell it for.

[DJ MUSHA]

How about a bounty hunting business, you have to pick up a file, or hack into someone’s phone or cctv cameras and you do that and have to kill the person, the game could have pictures for you to work out where they are, similar to the vehicle warehouse, also the money you get after killing them is how hard the target is to assassinate.

[RisingCobra]

20 hours ago, DJ MUSHA said:

How about a bounty hunting business, you have to pick up a file, or hack into someone’s phone or cctv cameras and you do that and have to kill the person, the game could have pictures for you to work out where they are, similar to the vehicle warehouse, also the money you get after killing them is how hard the target is to assassinate.

You know it's a thread from 2012 where they are a talking about GTA V wich came out in 2013 right?

But if it doesn't exist yet feel free to start the same topic for GTA 6