Starting from Scratch (Could You?)

[x_TestsubjecT_x]

I've only ever had one character in Gta. If I had to zero up again, ok np. Today that looks a lot different. I'd be back in action in no time, with all we've learned about playing the game. I'd have an office trimmed with a buzzard right directly. Just like your second story mode run you'll start to fly through. This is something that has been on my mind lately with the whole starting from scratch.

 

Thanks to this thread from fw3, it feels like the best place to ask. (hoping you don't mind)

 

My character is starting to hit a few final milestones so I've been asking myself about a restart.

 

Scratch.. Definitely would find all my friends again! #1 move. Perhaps an unfair advantage having players you know? Its not really scratch is it.

 

Hold your nose now, x_TestsubjecT_x, an actual testsubject <-- (really was an experiment that stuck) in gta should think about retirement, unchaining the puppeteer for another go.

 

I'm pretty stoked about it actually. I think it will go fast. Really fast. Friends are the key to GTA riches no doubt. A safety net that makes starting over much less a task than it may appear.

 

So I suppose my question to anyone restarting, would you hang on to that player base you've built or would you try to create a new one?

 

I'll dig my heels in and hang on. I could restart my character and still keep my fun factor maxed if I could keep all the guns (players) I've met along the way.

[DLcoolJ]

I could, but it would be a pain in the ass to get anywhere near the level of my current guy with all the cars, guns, Pegasus vehicles, properties and cash etc

 

Having said that i do have 2nd character and it was kinda fun playing with that one and starting from scratch- others think you are a noob, and are surprised when they try and kill you.

 

The main thing that would annoy me would be race stats. I've got almost 2300 wins and a positive W/ L record by a few hundred and that would be a major hassle to get back.

[Geisterfaust]

It's quite a topic you started, sir and the discussion is indeed interesting with your directing questions.

 

It will happen only in case I decided to make this decision deliberately, not pressed by R*, because in that case I would definitely drop the idea. Look at it this way: if they allowed this to happen once, it may happen again. If there is no guarantee that my progress will be saved, I won't play for progress. If the only guaranteed measure of progress is purchased cash, I'm out. Cash cards are out of the question, absolutely! Especially under these circumstances, that would be pure extortion and I'm not the guy who falls easily for that kind of thing. I used to live in Russia, after all and it's a mean country with cruel people.

 

So, long story short: I won't. I've got modded account on PC and I will get a modded account in this case. Honestly, I'm only playing Online because the new content is not available in GTAV offline.

Edited February 10, 2017 by hei3enberg

[OfficialTwiggz]

I've devoted too much time into this game, and to simply restart everything from scratch, I would be pissed and wouldn't do it. On my PS3 account, I've been online since Day One Oct 1st 2013, probably one of the first to get the survive your bounty trophy. This character I'm on, I created in March of '14.

 

If I could sell some properties, I would. But that's about it. Level wise and the rest, id keep.

[Bonnie_MacFarlane]

I recently made a second character when Rockstar implemented the option to start from level 120, just because I was curious... On my main I have four MC businesses and I only fully upgraded one,, so I get three LJT calls ("money doesn't grow on trees") after each other every ingame day, so I was thinking of switching over to my second character and never touch the MC businesses at that one, just to get rid off these calls.

 

And now the CEO stuff is on 25%-50% sale, so I decided to make work of that plan and I bought an office, a kuruma, a sandking xl and a buzzard (also on 25% sale) and now I'm saving to buy the La Puerta vehicle warehouse for my second and then that character is up-and-running. For the low stats, I guess when I just play with that one, the stats will max-out along the playtime...

 

So LJT made me do it !!!

[Moe Problems]

With over 200 days of game play and a ranl of 1000+, i just couldn't do it all over again...but i would play just causally. You know a couple of races a survival or 2,etc

[westsxde]

I played for a year an a half grinding my ass off when it really felt like I wasn't getting anywhere. Bought a modded account so I'd have money. Played more than ever. I enjoyed VIP work more, the biker work more, missions, etc.. After the money wipe I've played less and less. There's less people to play with. I'm getting thrown in lobbies with the same people every time I get on and I'm not in a crew, not friends with them and they're not following me. The game is dead. If I had to start from day 1 again i think I would honestly throw the disc away.

[HeavyDuke]

Meh, i would just keep an eye out and do the first new money glitch that pops up and glitch my way up to the top again. Like the old days before i just transfered modded accounts and all that.

[Nacho Z]

 

Yes. The only two vehicles I would ever use if that happened.

 

Elegy

 

Lazer

Safe to say you wouldn't bother with grinding money, right?

 

Good luck stealing your precious Lazer without the $5000 help from Lester.

Just for the record all you have to do is stay low, say less than 50 feet, for a few seconds after takeoff and you won't get blown up. Not my discovery but it works.

[Tonguegirl]

I know this may be a bit off-topic, but @ all those members who say that they would never start again; does that mean that you would have no interest in playing a new version of GTA Online?

 

What if GTA6 gets released and it has its own online component that is completely seperate from the current world? Whatcha gonna' do? Quit the game for good, or start again from scratch. I think it would be quite amusing seeing everyone start again. I never played the current version from Day One so I missed the excitement that must have come from discovering new things.

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

I know this may be a bit off-topic, but @ all those members who say that they would never start again; does that mean that you would have no interest in playing a new version of GTA Online?

 

What if GTA6 gets released and it has its own online component that is completely seperate from the current world? Whatcha gonna' do? Quit the game for good, or start again from scratch. I think it would be quite amusing seeing everyone start again. I never played the current version from Day One so I missed the excitement that must have come from discovering new things.

Like i said, if that version of online is truely an improvement over the current thing, with dedicated servers and balance, i would go for that and if interesting enough, probably play it until the servers close down.

[Lonely-Martin]

My main account is still active... But I have got a 2nd account I recently created... Anyone else? Anyone else need the 10-12m head start from heists? Message me... I'll host the lot, got 1, another to confirm... Interested??? PM me...

[Nyamber]

I know this may be a bit off-topic, but @ all those members who say that they would never start again; does that mean that you would have no interest in playing a new version of GTA Online?

 

What if GTA6 gets released and it has its own online component that is completely seperate from the current world? Whatcha gonna' do? Quit the game for good, or start again from scratch. I think it would be quite amusing seeing everyone start again. I never played the current version from Day One so I missed the excitement that must have come from discovering new things.

If the new version is as terribly designed as this one, and has thousands of bugs, glitches, and an endless grind, then no. I won't play it.

[Pinkarella]

I could start from scratch again but I honestly wouldn't.

 

I created a second account on PS 3 over a year ago and it was painful and tiring. I just used the account for guests who wanted to sneakpeak GTA

[kringled]

I play on PC so I can't create a new account at will without re-buying the game. If I could, I would, just to see how it feels fresh...but I would only do that knowing that I could go back to my existing characters.

If mine were wiped, I wouldn't start over. Some things I would be hard pressed to regain - CMM and the elite challenges - the friends I did those with have long left this game. The game isn't really fresh enough for me to want to put in the amount of time required to build up to what I think is a good position to be at, I'd be regularly missing things that I used to own.

As far as Tonguegirl's question: I wouldn't mind starting from scratch in a different version; that'd be a whole new world, new things to do, not things I've done dozens or hundreds of times already. However, if they keep/grow the PvP emphasis while maintaining peer-to-peer servers and the slapdash attitude towards cheating that has gone on in GTAO on PC, then I can't see why I'd bother. (Peer to peer is fine for me if you're talking small co-op gaming, like L4D or Borderlands series).

[tjor24]

Id just stick to single player

[IceDree]

I'll absolutely start again no problem, but first I'll say sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiitttttt & stretch it out so long, it makes Isaiah Whitlock Jr. Both extremely proud & jealous at the same time lol.

 

 

What I'll do differently? All kinds of things.

No more properties or cars im not sure about it. I'll just have 3 properties... Office, Vehicle warehouse & a Yacht.

 

 

First things first, Jack a cop car (To get a shotgun), Find me an Oracle XS or a Dubsta to call my own & live in it for months to come.

 

Then start grinding missions, daily objectives, 2x$ stuff, LTS & sell cars to get the money I need to buy an office. After I get the office, its headhunter, sightseer & hostile takeover to get me a vehicle warehouse.

 

After the vehicle warehouse, I'll grind for the Buzzard, move to Lombank & get the office upgrades (Accommodations & Garage1).

 

 

Then, I'll work to get my Yacht back.

 

And finally I'll start rebuilding my Car, SecuroServ & Helicopter collections as I accumulate my wealth. Once I've done all that, I'll buy back my Nimbus & redecorate my office.

 

 

Here's what I won't do:

 

1) I won't buy houses or garages. I'll live on my Yacht & listen to Kenny Loggins. Heists be dammed. I ain't going through Station & Deliver the EMP setups again.

 

2) I won't buy a Savage or a Hydra.

 

3) I won't buy Crate warehouses. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed doing them & I'm very grateful for the profit I made from them, but I can achieve the same results with the vehicles warehouse work without making my office look like sh*t.

 

 

 

It will take a while, but it can be done.

[Rafae]

I know this may be a bit off-topic, but @ all those members who say that they would never start again; does that mean that you would have no interest in playing a new version of GTA Online?

 

What if GTA6 gets released and it has its own online component that is completely seperate from the current world? Whatcha gonna' do? Quit the game for good, or start again from scratch. I think it would be quite amusing seeing everyone start again. I never played the current version from Day One so I missed the excitement that must have come from discovering new things.

How does not wanting to start over in the current version of Online translate to not wanting to start over in a different version?

 

Of course I'd start over in a heartbeat IF I had to in a newer version of Online because knowing Rockstar, they'll no doubt make massive improvements over the current one, making it worth starting over as opposed to starting over in a version of Online we've been playing for almost 3.5 years.

[Maxxeine]

Not after 500+ ranks. Though I wouldn't mind starting a new character if GTA Online was ever replaced with something new and didn't allow character transfers.