This week, GTA V came to Xbox Game Pass for the third time with the next-gen version of GTA Online. If you are a new player, or someone returning to the game after many years, we are going to help you with a short guide to enter this world full of businesses and activities to do to earn money and to amuse you.
If, like me, you come back to the game after having tried it on Xbox 360, you will be surprised by all the new features and facilities for new players. That is why I want to make a clarification, because this guide is only intended for players of the Xbox Series X/S, PC and PlayStation 5 version of the game, since it is in this version that we can enjoy all the news without limitations of any kind. , in addition to receiving gifts for new users and much more.
How to start in GTA Online and earn a lot of money?
The first thing you should know is that in this game everything is ruled by money, so if you don’t have a penny it will probably cost you more to stay active in this open world full of missions and activities to achieve. That being the case, let’s start:
1. Claim the 4 million new player bonus
One of the big additions for the next-gen version of GTA Online is that now, if you’re creating a character for the first time, Rockstar gives you a tutorial with a $4 million bonus to start a business, a car, and other things .
The above comes with some important details, because if you already have characters to transfer from past games, you won’t be offered this benefit. Only if you are a new player and you are creating a character for the first time, because that is the other condition, since only one character among all those you create will have this advantage. You must therefore be aware of this and accept the bonus when it is offered to you on a black screen.
2. Choose a company
These 4 million that you have received will have to be spent on a major investment in order to obtain resources in the future. That’s what companies are for, they can be chosen freely, and if you have enough money, you can acquire them all in time.
For now you can only choose one of the 4 that exist: general management, arms dealer, nightclub and biker club.
The first two are active businesses, in which you will have to complete missions and move all the assets as you wish to earn money. The other two, the two clubs, are passive businesses that will make you money in the long run.
My recommendation, and looking for the maximum benefit between money and pleasure, is to choose the profession of “executive management”. With this you will become a member of Securo Serv, a private security agency that unlocks three aspects with which you can earn money all the time, without time limitation.
The second most popular option to start with is the “arms dealer”, because as with the previous one, in this one you will be able to earn money periodically and actively, being you who control the entire flow of profits through missions. In this aspect, you will become the owner of a bunker where all the operations to steal, store, create and sell weapons are directed.
The other two, the disco and the motorcycle club, are businesses that require a lot of extra money, as well as vehicles and better equipment, so they are not recommended for beginners.
3. Invest in your business
At this point we will focus only on the companies of executive director and arms dealerbecause they have similar management and, as we have already mentioned, they are the best if you start playing GTA Online.
In line with executive direction, what the game forces us to do is invest in an office. For this point, the desk and its location do not matter, so we advise you to choose the cheapest one to be able to invest in other elements. When buying the desktop, remember that no additional items are needed, since the cheapest will cost 1 million, nothing more.
The next thing will be to acquire a warehouse for special goods. Following the previous line, we recommend buying the cheapest one, which costs $250,000. On this occasion, there is a difference between warehouses, since they have internal capacity. The smaller and less well-placed ones have 16 cargo slots, which is what you need to get started.
After that, you will have the option to purchase vehicles. The only recommendation here is not to exceed your budget for the following investments, but there is always every player’s taste for luxury cars or things like that. If we had to choose, we would clearly split the money between a fast car priced at half a million or the Karin Kuruma, which is a very useful armored car in missions. Even so, it is free choice.
Finally, and once our initial investments are complete, you will be able to choose which weapons to buy to have them already unlocked by default with your character. In this section, the recommendation would be to buy absolutely all the weapons available, since you will have a varied arsenal to be able to face the missions and all the combat situations as you can. Also, it saves you from going to an Ammu Nation store to buy weapons without leaving and you may end up spending more money than necessary. If you want to save some money, you can just buy the essentials, which are an Assault Rifle, Sticky Bombs, Sniper, and Missile Launcher.
With all of the above, your money should be around a million dollars or at least $900,000 to get started in Los Santos and run your business.
4. Acquire a property and set a goal
Before we explain how your new business works, it is important that you acquire a property to unlock new missions and store your vehicles. Here, as with almost everything, your personal taste comes into play, but once you get started you should buy the cheapest luxury apartment out there. It doesn’t matter which one you buy, the important thing is that it is classified as a luxury apartment, because in it you will have access to a room where you can plan the first moves of the game. These heists are multiplayer missions which bring a lot of money and experience and can be repeated as many times as you want.
Apartments are purchased from the Dynasty 8 page in your cell phone browser.
With all this, you would already be almost 100% equipped to be a money-making machine, but for that there is still a long time to go. For this you must set yourself a goal, whatever it is, you must think that all your businesses, missions and others must be aimed at obtaining enough money to acquire a new business, another vehicle; anything for you to have fun, that in the end that’s what’s important.
5. Learn to manage your business with Securo Serv
We finally come to the important thing, and this is how you will generate money with your business apart from all the missions, races, blows and others that you carry out in Los Santos.
As we have just done, you have purchased an office and a warehouse for special goods. To this must be added a final purchase which will be a car warehouse for export. Of course, all this will be explained to you quickly in the tutorial, which we recommend you do, but they do not explain how to improve the performance of these companies.
To start, you need to go to your office, there you will have a computer where you can manage the affairs you want. Upon entering you will have 3 different options, which are special goods, export of vehicles and special vehicles. Of the 3 previous ones, we have discarded the last one, because it is the one that brings us the least financially, but they are fun missions to do with friends. So, we’ll briefly explain how each business works and how to get the most out of it:
- Special merchandise: what we should do is go to the computer in our office and buy goods and then resell them at a much higher price. The most recommended at this point is to play with friends, but if not, it would be better to buy 2 boxes and do the missions to collect them. When you get them, they accumulate in your warehouse, where you must go to sell them.
What we recommend is to fill the warehouse halfway and sell it, so you can earn some money periodically as you get boxes of goods. If you do it this way, you will earn $100,000,000 for each order.
Of course, it is important that you know that each of the orders to be delivered or collected can be destroyed by the players present in the room, so you have to be careful or, even better, play in a private session so that no one disturbs you.
- Export of vehicles: It is perhaps the most entertaining activity to do alone or with friends, as well as one of the most lucrative in the short term.
To get started, you need to have a purchased Vehicle Warehouse and be on your desktop computer. From there you can request a vehicle tracker to steal it. Keep in mind that there are 3 different qualities, being low, medium and high quality. The only quality we are interested in is high quality, because it is the only one that is profitable when selling cars.
The moment you steal a car of any range, you need to be careful not to crash it, so as not to lose money on repairs. Once in the warehouse, you go to the warehouse computer and press sell vehicles. In this section you will see more sales options, but you are only interested in the one that indicates a specialized export, which charges you a commission of 20 thousand dollars.
Once the mission has been accepted, you must bring the intact vehicle to a specific point on the map and that’s it. The economic income of this business is 80,000 per vehicle, since you can do it as many times as you want without a time limit, you will have enough work and fun to earn money.
6. Have fun and play with friends
In the end, even though we give you thousands of tips and tricks to earn money, playing alone can get a bit monotonous and boring, so the best advice we can give you to make your gaming sessions profitable is to play between friends.
Whether it’s running errands, doing stunts or running a business, the best way is always accompanied to laugh a little and earn some money over time. GTA Online is a vast game that has grown in unimaginable ways. If you’re new, you’ll never stop discovering new things every day to have fun, so take it easy, because it looks like Rockstar Games will be cultivating this game for many more years.
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