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Missions vs heists. Which one really pays more?

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Hi y'all, I've seen a lot of people on here recommending grinding out missions for new comers for quick and easy money.

I've tried that, and for some reason, I just have crap missions that pay out about 10k each on hard mode.

What I'm proposing, is why not grind out the pacific standard heist? That's what I've been doing for years now, and it's my quickest method of making money.

I know missions are more reliable cause its easier to complete, and I agree with that. Except for the Pacific Heist. It's seriously like the easier thing ever. There's a quick way to do each setup, including the heist itself.

Let's run through the setups:

Vans: it's a 5 minute, single player mission. Even if your 3 teammates troll or don't do dick, you can still do it by yourself in about 5-6 minutes. Payout is 20k (I think)

Signal: take the helicopter straight to the island, snipe everyone, fly avi back in helicopter. Takes about 10 minutes. Payout is 26k

Hack: 3 drives straight to the site, 1 gets van. Kumura to kill everyone, it's clear by the time the fourth gets there with the white van. When it's time to leave the area, have 1 in the white van and 3 in the black. As soon as you get in the black van, 2 people get out imediately and get back into the kuruma. Then escort the 1 black van driver to the destination. Payout is 26k

Convoy: Finally, the only setup that doesn't have an extremely cheap and easy way to complete it. Still easy tho. Trip skip to save yourselves 5 minutes. Snipe the heli. Kill everything with a kuruma. Drive to the turn in point. Not hard at all. Payout is 26k

Bikes: literally the easiest setup ever. Kill with kuruma. As long as you take a good path and don't crash, you shouldn't die. If you can't, just wear your super slow and thick armor vest and crash as much as you want. I cannot understand how people die on this mission. Takes about 5 minutes to complete. Very very short. Payout is 26k

Heist: demo grabs all the cash. 1 person (usually me) does the entire run alone to the bikes using an rpg (it's seriously so easy with an rpg). You blow up the bikes, wait about 15 seconds, commit suicide. This spawns everyone at the bikes checkpoint, blow bikes again, go grab the kuruma and drive to the cliff jumping thing via the highway. At most you should only lose like 30k, and that's to the cliff diving. Payout is 670k

All in total, if you run the full heist in one sitting with moderately competent teammates (seriously, 90% of their job is to not die) it shouldn't take you any longer than an hour or two to run through the whole heist.

So for the total earnings: if it's your heist, you'll make around 670k - 100k for startup fee, leaving you with a total earnings of 570k

If you're just a member, you'll still make ~126k from setups and 190k for a total of $316k

I'd say 570k and 316k isn't bad at all for about 2 hours work, and the more you do it, the more time you'll shave off also. Especially if you have a pre made 4 on skype or something. Every setup is extremely easy and quick.

I've been doing one or two a day for a while now and it racks in millions, depending on how much free time I have, I usually make around 2-4 mills per week or so. My dude is seriously loaded. You name it, I have it. I earned it all through robbing the pacific standard.

What do you guys think? I didn't work out all the economics of heist vs missions, but I prefer running the pacific heist personally.

edit: Y'ALL please stop telling me about the main issues with heists, the entire point of this thread isn't about why you don't heist, but to offer a counterargument to the preconceived notions with heisting. I'm trying to explain that all these issues you guys are having are avoidable and fixable issues. Once you get the proper way to run this heist down, it's suprisingly effective. I swear by it. Anyone who wants a Yatch or the Deluxe air vehicles, try it yourself or hit me up on PC (I'll run through the heist with you) and you'll see that it doesn't take long at all to make 10m.

urbanowls

Posted Feb 21, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC · edited

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