If you are struggling to choose what crates to buy

[Th3Stig911]

Here is what I found after a few quick calculations. Hopefully this helps simplify things for some people. These are estimates and I used $2.2mil as a final value when you go to sell them all and I used 7 minutes as the time each pickups takes to complete. I did not factor in the time in between pickups. Numbers will obviously be different with each person but the fundamentals remain the same. I haven't calculated for the smaller warehouses but I would assume that the results would be quite similar. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

3 crates:

$18,000 or $6,000 per crate

37 pickups

~4.3 hours to fill large warehouse

~$1,500,000 profit

$348,837/hour

 

2 crates:

$8,000 or $4,000 per crate

55.5 pickups

~6.5 hours to fill large warehouse

~$1,756,000 profit

$270,153/hour

 

1 crate:

$2,000

111 pickups

~12.9 hours to fill large warehouse

~$1,978,000 profit

$153,333/hour

[armrule]

did u solo for all 3 conditions?

[MajorVienna]

As you stockpile more of a particular cargo, R* says the value will go up due to supply/demand?

I wonder if you can pump a huge premium on, say, medical supplies, by filling your large warehouse 'A' with just medical (buying at 3x), then cycling quickly through the other cargos by buying those at 1x and delivering those to another warehouse 'B' until medical is the next offer again etc, which you would then take to A again.

Edited June 11, 2016 by MajorVienna

[dj__jg]

As you stockpile more of a particular cargo, R* says the value will go up due to supply/demand?

I wonder if you can pump a huge premium on, say, medical supplies, by filling your large warehouse 'A' with just medical (buying at 3x), then cycling quickly through the other cargos by buying those at 1x and delivering those to another warehouse 'B' until medical is the next offer again etc, which you would then take to A again.

I'm pretty sure it's just for owning a large amount of any cargo, not a specific group of cargo. It's intended as a reward for both the higher risk to lose 111 cargo all at once when you sell them all at once and the higher risk of getting your warehouse raided by NPC's because you are storing a lot of cargo in it.

[rlk232]

It's for a large amount, not specific type, 100%. I generally only go up to 36 items in a warehouse, then I sell because I can do that amount solo. It works out to 17k per item, and the bigger part is deciding if 2 crates or 3 at a time is more profitable solo collecting.

 

My math is this, by myself in a friendly lobby:

 

Collections [email protected] a time, 6k each, 6 runs per hour, 18 crates x6= 108k, approx 198k profit after sale

[email protected] a time, 4k each, 7.5 runs per hour, 15 cratesx4= 60 15x13k (profit) 195k profit after sale

 

Works out about the same...

Edited June 14, 2016 by rlk232

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

i always take 3

because of the stupid cooldown i want to avoid

even if i lose things....realy, it has been calculatedheists pay more anyhow so i just play those for fun

[rlk232]

Just more proof R* is trolling us, if you have a large warehouse with 77 crates, you get $18512 for selling them all at once but what if you have 79 crates? Sell them all at once and you only get $18,500 flat. It's a damned paycut for having more crates, I copied/pastes and calculated the numbers on windows calculator, and double checked. I know someone else has seen this but it's an unreal insult...

[MechanicMammal]

I have not done the Maths but when I have been solo collecting iv gone for the 2 crates option mainly just in case it is a multi drop not a vehicle.pickup, but I have not been grinding the CEO stuff I have just been buying stock for 2 warehouses when I have free time, just a collection or 2 while waiting to do something else normally waiting for people I trust to come on to heist.

I tend to buy using money earned from heisting and only sell when they are both full it sort of works like separate bank accounts with better interest.

 

At the moment I have come to the conclusion that it is about the 3rd best thing to do to get a good exchange of money over time, 1st being Pacific standard with a good team and 2nd being Fleeca job but they are only more profitable with a good team they wont be with Randoms unless you are very lucky with the matchmaking, so when there is no one about it is a good way to make cash. As long as your careful when you sell.