Gaming swooshboy's GTA Online thread featuring the RedCafe Crew

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You're one of those guys who shows people pictures of your kids and dog when they don't want to see it, except instead of kids, you've got a boat and instead of a dog, you've got a boat.
Then feck off out of the thread...
 
Oooooooh "This is my thread, if you don't want to look at pictures of my boats and listen to stories of my life in Los Santos the feck off out of here!"
:D I was careful to type THE thread, and not MY thread!
 
Here's the R* newswire:

GTA Online: Executives and Other Criminals Now Available

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Executives and Other Criminals brings new ways to make crime pay in GTA Online for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC - offering players the chance to run their own criminal organizations, hire and fire other players, and face off against rival operations across Freemode. Los Santos living also gets a premium upgrade with the introduction of Stilt Houses for sale in the Vinewood Hills, new Eclipse Penthouse Apartments with customizable interior styles and the debut of the upgradable and fully staffed Super Yachts now for sale on Docktease. The update also comes with new armored vehicles, two new weapons and much more.

Be Your Own Boss
Players with more than GTA$1M cash in their Maze bank account can choose to become a VIP with the ability to create and name their own organization, and hire up to 3 other players to serve as Bodyguards. All players will have access to the new SecuroServ menu in the Player Interaction Menu to become a VIP and build their organization.

Steady Work
Players looking to join an organization as Bodyguards can look out for invites on the new SecuroServ app on the phone and can set their status as ‘looking for work’ via the SecuroServ menu. VIPs can drop ammo and armor for members of the Organization, as well as order new vehicles on-demand including the new Turreted Limo, and call-in favors like Ghost Organization to temporarily remove the entire organization from the radar.

Joining an Organization as a Bodyguard has the advantage of delivering a periodic salary of GTA$5,000, as well as bringing in additional cash and RP for taking on VIP Work and VIP Challenges that occur within Freemode. However, any cash winnings earned by an employed Bodyguard while not working for the Organization (such as completing Freemode Events or other Freemode activities like Bounties or Hold Ups) goes to the VIP. Bodyguards also enjoy additional benefits including accelerated health regeneration, frequent RP bonuses and stat boosts when in the vicinity of the VIP.

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New Games and Challenges
VIP Work is the name for 6 new game types that operate directly within Freemode. In Hostile Takeover, an unknown package is held within a restricted area, and organizations compete to collect the package and deliver it to a set location. Sounds deceptively simple, but when the ‘package’ is a tank held inside Fort Zancudo, things get tricky fast.

Asset Recovery sends your organization to LSPD stations around the city to recover impounded vehicles. It’s up to your outfit to free up those assets and return them to a designated location, while the cops and other players in the session will be looking to destroy your vehicles.

Piracy Prevention is attack and defense on the decks of a luxurious Super Yacht. Defending players spawn on the yacht while attacking players spawn on shore with access to boats, helis and Seasharks ready to head out and capture the upper deck.

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Executive Deathmatch puts rival organizations in a Deathmatch-style battle inside of Freemode, with each VIP allotted just 10 lives.

VIP Challenges are intra-organizational Freemode trials that pit members against each other for their own personal gains. There are 6 challenge types including:

Most Wanted: The heat is right around the corner, with all players in the organization hit with a 5-star wanted level. With a countdown of 10 minutes, the last player alive wins the challenge.

Market Manipulation: All open convenience stores are blipped on the map. Players have to race from store to store in a hold-up spree to collect as much money as possible. When time counts down, the player with the most money wins.

Auto Buyout: Players must steal and deliver as many vehicles as they can. Every vehicle has a specific value displayed when you enter the vehicle, so choose your acquisitions carefully. The player with the highest total value of vehicles delivered at the end of the timer wins.

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Yacht Life
For the ultimate room with a view, players will have the option to purchase a single Super Yacht from the Docktease website. Yachts function as floating apartments and come fully staffed with your own personal captain to shift the boat between your choice of 12 scenic mooring locations around Los Santos and Blaine County, and a bartender to serve drinks for you and your guests. Choose from a range of designs, with higher-end yachts featuring hot tubs, and additional complimentary transport options including helicopters and personal watercraft. Name your vessel and personalize it with a custom flag, hull color and a variety of lighting options. Each Yacht comes equipped with an anti-air defense system to help protect against unwanted attacks from rival Organizations and other Freemode attackers.

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Other New Features

  • 10 Stilt Houses are now for sale around Vinewood Hills, each equipped with a 10-car Garage and a Heist Planning Room
  • 3 Custom Apartments for sale in Eclipse Towers, with 8 customizable themed interiors
  • 10 new cars for sale, including a Turreted Limo and 6 new executive vehicles with armored variations
  • 2 new helicopters – SuperVolito and SuperVolito Carbon
  • 2 new weapons, the Heavy Revolver and Switchblade, each with VIP and Bodyguard variants
  • Players will now have the ability to purchase a fifth Garage or Apartment
  • New clothing and accessories, including Robes, Smoking Jackets, Pyjamas and Swimwear
Executives and Other Criminals also brings the new Adversary Mode – Extraction. Teams of Bodyguards must search, locate and safely extract an Executive Target from their downed jet before a rival Hit Squad intercepts and eliminates the target.

New Custom Avatars on Social Club
You can now take a mugshot or selfie of your character and use it as your Social Club Avatar. In addition to photos of your GTA Online character, this also works with characters from Story Mode, and any mugshots or selfies in your Snapmatic gallery you've taken should already exist as option under Snapmatic Selfies and Mugshots in your Social Club Avatar Settings. Photos created prior to May 2015 may not appear, and photos with meme text will not appear as options. The Art & Downloads section of the GTAV website has also been updated with the latest artwork from Executives and Other Criminals - in a range of desktop wallpaper, background and avatar sizes.

GTA Online: Executives and Other Criminals is available now as an automatic update for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com...-executives-and-other-criminals-now-available

This one sounds v cool:

Piracy Prevention is attack and defense on the decks of a luxurious Super Yacht. Defending players spawn on the yacht while attacking players spawn on shore with access to boats, helis and Seasharks ready to head out and capture the upper deck.

Didn't realise this one:

However, any cash winnings earned by an employed Bodyguard while not working for the Organization (such as completing Freemode Events or other Freemode activities like Bounties or Hold Ups) goes to the VIP.

I think it's a shame here that the winnings / takings wouldn't be able to be shared within the organization. Would be cool to have all 4 of you hitting all of the stores around the map and then dividing the take, or also splitting the cash from taking any stolen vehicles to LSC.

For anyone who becomes a VIP, you can also do some solo missions in an invite only lobby. The Sight Seerer mission gives you 3 packages to collect from across the island - you have to do a small minigame to unlock the location (like hacking a laptop kind of thing). It takes about 5 minutes to do them (if you are in a heli) and it nets you around $22k. You then have a cool down timer before you can repeat it - sometimes it was 5 minutes, other times longer, but there are other missions you can do in between. Seems a pretty quick and easy moneymaker - quicker than most missions, no chance of dying, no money spent on ammo and pays more than almost all missions.
 
Update is 1.3GB

Current richest PS4 caftards:

Levo - $11,251,569
swooshboy - $10,989,623
Big-Red - $8,387,360
Damien - $5,346,079
Duffy - $2,265,256
Stoney - $1,735,975
Parmo - $1,514,604
Christy - $1,247,050
Issy - $1,169,835
Stobz - $309,603
HB - $227,126

Marksy - not sharing stats >.>
no idea what maz' social club name is

I'm just short of 6M damnit.

Updated:

Levo - $9.8m
Duffy - $2.3m
Stoney - $1.7m
Swoosh - $1.1m
Parmo - $389k
Red - $218k
Damien - $151k

Not sure if @Levo is considering a yacht - but that would put @Duffy at the head of the crew - impressive effort. And that is after he bought his rat-infested, piss-stained house on the outskirts of Vinewood Hills.

To do the VIP role, you need to have $1m in the bank - so will try and stay above that figure.
 
Updated:

Levo - $9.8m
Duffy - $2.3m
Stoney - $1.7m
Swoosh - $1.1m
Parmo - $389k
Red - $218k
Damien - $151k

Not sure if @Levo is considering a yacht - but that would put @Duffy at the head of the crew - impressive effort. And that is after he bought his rat-infested, piss-stained house on the outskirts of Vinewood Hills.

To do the VIP role, you need to have $1m in the bank - so will try and stay above that figure.
My apartment is nice, saved me about 30k, has a pool and had a great view of the city. I'm quite happy with that.

Didn't find being a vip particularly great to be honest.
 
My apartment is nice, saved me about 30k, has a pool and had a great view of the city. I'm quite happy with that.

Didn't find being a vip particularly great to be honest.

I agree on the VIP front - I think if there's 4 or fewer, then it can be a way to create some things to do. It was good that the bodyguards get regular payments - I didn't notice that coming out of my bank, but not sure if it does or not?

Some of the VIP objectives - such as stealing the tank - could be kinda cool things to try and do together, but I think you need to be in a lobby with just the VIP organization. I know the other people in the lobby are there to stop you, but in practice I don't think it played out well, as it was just literally getting in the way of trying to accomplish something. It wasn't as though the non-org people had the same objective of stealing the particular vehicle, instead their goal was just to try and stop the others. That, plus the number of soldiers spawning made it frustrating more than anything.
 
Updated:

Levo - $9.8m
Duffy - $2.3m
Stoney - $1.7m
Swoosh - $1.1m
Parmo - $389k
Red - $218k
Damien - $151k

Not sure if @Levo is considering a yacht - but that would put @Duffy at the head of the crew - impressive effort. And that is after he bought his rat-infested, piss-stained house on the outskirts of Vinewood Hills.

To do the VIP role, you need to have $1m in the bank - so will try and stay above that figure.

my bank account is looking so bad next to these
 
Will be on later after apprentice.

It's a shame you can't launch heists from your yacht - would be a cool starting point.
 
I agree on the VIP front - I think if there's 4 or fewer, then it can be a way to create some things to do. It was good that the bodyguards get regular payments - I didn't notice that coming out of my bank, but not sure if it does or not?

Some of the VIP objectives - such as stealing the tank - could be kinda cool things to try and do together, but I think you need to be in a lobby with just the VIP organization. I know the other people in the lobby are there to stop you, but in practice I don't think it played out well, as it was just literally getting in the way of trying to accomplish something. It wasn't as though the non-org people had the same objective of stealing the particular vehicle, instead their goal was just to try and stop the others. That, plus the number of soldiers spawning made it frustrating more than anything.

That tank one needs to be done again tbh. What we could do is get more than VIP and bodyguards and then use the extras to help out jus to see how much cash its worth.
 
Thought about buying a shark card to get a yacht but a £65 card only gets you $8m and I'll be dammed if a fancy boat is with 70quid or more of my hard earned money
 
Thought about buying a shark card to get a yacht but a £65 card only gets you $8m and I'll be dammed if a fancy boat is with 70quid or more of my hard earned money
Nah no way it's worth that.

Do the CM challenge and you'll have plenty enough :)