How long did it take you to grind all that money? What was your process?
It's been a while so I might not have the exact details correct but basically
- I would start by filling up an Import/Export warehouse. Basically you collect low and medium quality vehicles and sell the high end vehicles. You eventually reach a point where you have collected *all* the low/medium quality vehicles so only high end vehicles will spawn to steal.
- From there I would buy supplies for my coke business and gun running business. Since I did everything solo, the key was to hit the right amount to get the right amount of vehicle drop offs. I think this was done by just buying one round of supplies but I can't remember for sure. I have no idea how efficient you could improve this by working with a team to steal them/sell a full load. Once the Nightlife update came out, I incorporated the passive income from this into it as well.
- I start by selling a high end Import/Export vehicle. I would do this by using the Cargobob to air ship it to avoid as much damage as possible. Then I'd immediately steal another high end vehicle, and while the sell cooldown was going I'd start alternating VIP work (Headhunter and Sightseer I believe) using the Buzzard. I upgraded to the oppressor and MKII as they came out and it increased my completion time. I also started incorporating the Client Jobs with the VIP work once I got the Terrorbyte.
- Once the sell cooldown was done, I'd sell the car and start the process again. Once my Coke/Guns/Nightclub sales were ready, I'd sell them and reup on supplies. I did all of this in solo public lobbies to avoid griefers, and tried to switch lobbies every 40 minutes to avoid daily fee's as best as I could.
I owned all of the biker businesses and multiple warehouses but mainly stuck with coke because I calculated it had the best profit out of buying the supplies for it. The other businesses were basically a waste until Nightlife came out and were incorporated into it's passive income system. I had toyed with the idea of doing a warehouse job once every day to very slowly fill them up and hoard them until Rockstar would do a 2x event on their sales, but by the time I thought of this the burnout had really set in and I realized I had as much money as I needed so I never actually went through with it.
How long did it take? Can't really say. I didn't start the process until I think Smugglers Run came out so that would have been sometime in 2017? I'd bought everything before that by grinding heists, but I was so sick of dealing with randumbs by then that I figured this system out with some people on GTA Forums.
I can't say how long it took, because even at my peak of playing I would go a day or two without playing. I think I figured out at some point that if I did at least one round of it (meaning from buying coke/gun supplies to coke/gun sale) a day I could pull somewhere between 6-8 million a week. I at least remember thinking it was close to what the biggest shark card was at the time. I realized in 2019 when I had around 65 million that I was grinding for absolutely no reason because I no longer raced so there was no need to buy the "best" supercars, they never released anything I wanted to buy for aesthetics after the Cheetah Classic and even if I *did* want something new in an update I had more than enough to buy it and just start the grind again. I ended up buying the arcade to do the Casino Heist, but besides that I never had much incentive to play or grind for anything again.
