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Should I waste 3 hours of my life to get from 80-90? I want a heavy sniper, but holy 🤬, grinding is boring as hell.
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I've been finding different ways to keep it interesting. One round I'll use only the sniper, next round only a pistol. A few times I've stayed behind and erased all evidence of our attack with stickies and gasoline. :D
 
I suppose I'll go online soon and ride my bike out to see if the cops will destroy my Fugitive so I can get it back.
 
We are definitely not getting our own homes. The reason: Multiple players owning the same home, the game can't create a separate instance. With apartments, you can because there's multiple levels. With a mansion, you can't, for obvious reasons.
 
CallmeDan
We are definitely not getting our own homes. The reason: Multiple players owning the same home, the game can't create a separate instance. With apartments, you can because there's multiple levels. With a mansion, you can't, for obvious reasons.
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It'll probably work like people with the same apartments. You buzz, and it gives you a list of people to buzz.
 
Well, I made level 75 from all of this weekends double points goodness. That seemed like a good target to achieve but now I look at it, it doesn't really make sense. My rational was 'Reach level 75 to unlock RR so I can grind to higher levels without relying on other people'. To reach level 75 I have played so much RR that I am sick of it. The same goes for Coveted, which I did to try and break up the boredom of doing one mission over and over again.

What I did discover, and I'm glad I did, are all the other missions and races out there. About the time I reached level 70 I all but stopped doing RR and started joining any random mission that was offered. It was through this I found my new favorite mission to replay, Satellite Communications. I also found more than a dozen awesome races (and quite a lot of pretty terrible ones too) just by jumping in to one at random.

I have also come away with a lot of ideas for making better race tracks. Simple things like making the race last 4 minutes so people are tempted to return if they are RP grinding, and effective use of jumps.

So, while the x2 RP and $$ for the weekend has been pretty awesome, the biggest bonus for me was the incentive to explore the different races and missions, which I would not have ordinarily done.
 
Paulie
I suppose I'll go online soon and ride my bike out to see if the cops will destroy my Fugitive so I can get it back.
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I got my Fugitive back!:dopey: It had been destroyed at the phantom impound when I went online today so I could claim it on insuance.

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Well, I made level 75 from all of this weekends double points goodness. That seemed like a good target to achieve but now I look at it, it doesn't really make sense. My rational was 'Reach level 75 to unlock RR so I can grind to higher levels without relying on other people'. To reach level 75 I have played so much RR that I am sick of it. The same goes for Coveted, which I did to try and break up the boredom of doing one mission over and over again.

What I did discover, and I'm glad I did, are all the other missions and races out there. About the time I reached level 70 I all but stopped doing RR and started joining any random mission that was offered. It was through this I found my new favorite mission to replay, Satellite Communications. I also found more than a dozen awesome races (and quite a lot of pretty terrible ones too) just by jumping in to one at random.

I have also come away with a lot of ideas for making better race tracks. Simple things like making the race last 4 minutes so people are tempted to return if they are RP grinding, and effective use of jumps.

So, while the x2 RP and $$ for the weekend has been pretty awesome, the biggest bonus for me was the incentive to explore the different races and missions, which I would not have ordinarily done.
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I know what you mean, I've been enjoying some off-road races lately (not that I ever have anyone to race against, I normally have to do it solo).
 
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FTFY
 
Katiegan
It'll probably work like people with the same apartments. You buzz, and it gives you a list of people to buzz.
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No. It won't work. Hear me out.

Apartments have multiple levels, so there can be 16 rooms (Or instances) per apartment building. When multiple people owning the same apartment join a game, they get placed into their own separate instance, which can be on another floor, or to the side. Garages work by placing them under the map near the apartment. There are very few underground obstructions (Subways, etc), so it's a perfect place to put them.

Mansions (Or other private residences) are just one property. You can not have multiple instances in the exact same location because this will only lead to a whole host of glitches (You try to drink a glass of wine but another player randomly pops up in front of you and keeps drinking, you have a random stripper that you didn't call for dancing by a chair, etc). You can't just move the instance up, down, left, or right. The view from your window would not correctly align with the exterior of the house.
 
CallmeDan
Mansions (Or other private residences) are just one property. You can not have multiple instances in the exact same location because this will only lead to a whole host of glitches (You try to drink a glass of wine but another player randomly pops up in front of you and keeps drinking, you have a random stripper that you didn't call for dancing by a chair, etc). You can't just move the instance up, down, left, or right. The view from your window would not correctly align with the exterior of the house.
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I disagree. It's the same case with apartments too, as anyone is able to buy any of the rooms. When you buy an apartment floor, it'll be at the same place as another person that bought the same floor, because you are both on that level. If not, people could do that but one would be higher than the other, which would be silly.

It'd essentially be the same in having everyone buy one floor of an apartment.
 
Once the High Life update comes and I find my own Bagger, I'd love to go on a motorbike cruise with other players some time, I think that'd be fund.
 
CallmeDan
No. It won't work. Hear me out.

Apartments have multiple levels, so there can be 16 rooms (Or instances) per apartment building. When multiple people owning the same apartment join a game, they get placed into their own separate instance, which can be on another floor, or to the side. Garages work by placing them under the map near the apartment. There are very few underground obstructions (Subways, etc), so it's a perfect place to put them.

Mansions (Or other private residences) are just one property. You can not have multiple instances in the exact same location because this will only lead to a whole host of glitches (You try to drink a glass of wine but another player randomly pops up in front of you and keeps drinking, you have a random stripper that you didn't call for dancing by a chair, etc). You can't just move the instance up, down, left, or right. The view from your window would not correctly align with the exterior of the house.
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If there can be multiple instances of an apartment, and 2 people live in the same apartment in one lobby, how come you always have the right view? If it does work how you have described, then you'd often be entering your apartment to find that it has a different view to earlier. Mansions would work in exactly the same way as apartments. And all (10 car at least) garages are actually in the same place- under Legion Square, Downtown LS.
 
I don't know if it's possible to break the game any harder... @Grand Prix

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E28
If there can be multiple instances of an apartment, and 2 people live in the same apartment in one lobby, how come you always have the right view? If it does work how you have described, then you'd often be entering your apartment to find that it has a different view to earlier. Mansions would work in exactly the same way as apartments. And all (10 car at least) garages are actually in the same place- under Legion Square, Downtown LS.
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Precisely. ;)
 
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CallmeDan
We are definitely not getting our own homes. The reason: Multiple players owning the same home, the game can't create a separate instance. With apartments, you can because there's multiple levels. With a mansion, you can't, for obvious reasons.
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That would only be true if mansions worked the same way as they did in SP, as in they occupy a physical space on the map. I suspect that mansions would function the same way as apartments, as in you approach the door and it plays the animation and teleports you to the interior of the mansion.

And, as @E28 mentioned earlier, the actual garage space is underneath Legion Square. Now sure about apartment space, but I suspect it's nearby. Go into the full view map when you're in your apartment and the cursor will start centered on Legion Square - in some higher latency sessions it will even show your character blip there.
 
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Mudd
I've been finding different ways to keep it interesting. One round I'll use only the sniper, next round only a pistol. A few times I've stayed behind and erased all evidence of our attack with stickies and gasoline. :D
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I was sniping on RR for a while, then my brother pointed out that it's easier to just run up and smack them with the auto shotgun. Take out the 3 out front, walk in and get the 2 in the middle, then walk back toward the front of the building and gun down the others. Cut the mission time down to 3-4 minutes.
 
fatman_5050
I was sniping on RR for a while, then my brother pointed out that it's easier to just run up and smack them with the auto shotgun. Take out the 3 out front, walk in and get the 2 in the middle, then walk back toward the front of the building and gun down the others. Cut the mission time down to 3-4 minutes.
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Or you can go around the back and blast them with a minigun. But that's my personal preference.
 
Just playing Nurburgring and not paying attention, when I forget to pick a car. And because the Futo is in the Sports class, and the race was Sports, I ended up in my Futo instead of my Jester. :grumpy:

The Futo should be in Compacts, not Sports.
 

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