Life Hacks for GTA Online: tips or tricks you may still not know in 2020. Some helpful hints to get the most out of your time in GTA Online.
Introduction
GTA Online isn’t a new game, but there are new players, and despite how long you may have played, there may still be some new tricks to learn. So here are a set of useful things to take advantage of in GTA Online.
Street Car Life
Steal Cars in Grand Theft Auto.
Steal a street car, take it to the custom shop, sell for easy money. You are allowed to sell one car every game day (48 real world minutes). The best common street cars sell for $9500 ($95000 list price if purchased). But there are some customized street cars which sell for more, because the limit for “too hot to sell” is based on list price, not the extra value of custom features.
It only takes a couple minutes to sell a street car, which makes an hourly rate of a whopping $285K! But the custom cars let you beat even this high figure. You will want ones which sell for more than $9500, with the easiest to get selling for $15-18K. That pushes the equivalent hourly rate over half a million! Note: The Summer Update has increased the sale price of some of these.
To get the most from them, you need to collect them deliberately and efficiently, then sell them every game day. If you pick the right location for a garage, and already own one of these rare models (it doesn’t have to be the street custom version), and go to the right place at the right time, they will reliably appear for you. Just steal away, park in garage, go out and repeat.
A Garage Full Of Gang Cars: You need a garage near one of the gang areas. Fortunately, the Families (Franklin’s area) Green, Balla’s (Grove Street Circle) Purple, and Vagos Yellow cars pop up at various times of day and night. There are some 10 car garages outside this zone, and the Alta Street high end apartment, or you can get a 6 car garage right in the area. 10 car is generally better for storing cars for resale, as you want to collect a good supply at once.
The gang cars unfortunately, while nice looking, don’t bring the best prices. But they have the most spawn locations and times, which lets you collect over a longer period.
A Swanky Tower Full Of Sentinels: You need the Eclipse Tower high end apartment. A custom blue or yellow Sentinel XS will spawn on the street west of Tequi-La-La, at night (2100-0400). Drive out of your garage with one, down the hill, around the corner, find, steal, take back, repeat all night long. If you are lucky, you can fill up your garage in one “night” (about 14 real minutes). These sell for just under $15K or a bit over $17K. Summer Update — the blue custom car sells for 20K now. The mix is random, about one-third will be the blue ones.
There is an even better collection possibility, but the requirements are a little harder.
A Facility Full Of Sandkings: A custom blue or yellow Sandking XL will spawn in the early afternoon (1200-1700) in certain areas of Blaine County. The auto lot opposite the LS Custom Shop in Sandy Shores (Route 68), the main road in Paleto Bay (Custom Shop to Ammunation Lot), and the road curve south of the Fort Zancudo Bridge. You can’t get a 10 car garage in those areas, and 6 car garages aren’t well placed (Paleto Bay has a couple). But did you know you can store regular cars in a Facility?
Conveniently, there are Facilities available not far from these areas, and they can hold up to 7 Sandking XL. As these sell for $17-18K, you can average a little more than the Sentinel XS collecting with them. It provides an additional use for the Facility.
Simeon Always Wants Cars: Simeon will send you daily text messages to find a street car from a list of models. Grab one, evade the police, respray it (cheapest classic color about $780), then deliver it to Lamar’s spot by the docks. Easy money, pays 50% more than regular street cars (but only list price, so custom upgrades arent worth more). But if you started play and didn’t see the message, did you know that the list is still active if you haven’t already delivered your daily (real world day, not game day) car? You can guess that you have one if you get two wanted stars when you steal one, with no prior wanted level. You can evade the cops, take to custom shop, and then, the S for Simeon symbol will appear.
Summer Update: The respray is now free, any color. The mix of cars include ones which will sell for more money, about 20K for the best ones. Simeon doesn’t seem to want cars unless you get a text message from him.
If you don’t deliver one car each day, you will get those wanted stars any time you grab one off the street until you do it. This can be a hassle if you are doing a job, need a ride, and can’t afford the time and trouble to evade the cops.
As with the custom street cars, one way to help encourage these to spawn is to drive a similar model car yourself.
Don’t Look At Cars: When you call for a vehicle, did you ever notice that it will never show up in your line of sight? From Mechanic, any interaction menu, or whatever, look away from where you want the vehicle to appear.
This also applies when you are trying to get specific model cars to spawn for your on the street. Drive to the destination, but try to make sure that you don’t look forward before you reach the location. The game engine tries to avoid making cars appear from nothing in front of you (you will notice that aircraft don’t always follow this rule).
