This guide provides comprehensive tips and tricks on how to come out top in the content of one of GTA Online's major DLC releases, Further Adventures in Finance and Felony. This was the biggest and deepest update at the time of its release, not to mention the most divisive among the community — all this, in addition to providing effective new ways to earn GTA$.
There has always been animosity... well, actually, there has always been seething hatred and disgust between the griefer and non-griefers among the GTA Online playerbase, but never has it been as pronounced as during the heyday of this update, which forced players to transport destructible cargo of great value in public sessions with passive mode off.
We'll cover how to navigate those particularly risky missions, as well as all the other new content added to GTA Online with Further Adventures in Finance and Felony.
Griefers vs Non-Griefers
Finance and Felony has players make investments of several million GTA $ in the form of crates that need to be taken to warehouses and later delivered to buyers. Thing is, these crates have the tendency to burn or blow up when shot repeatedly with high velocity projectiles.
You can imagine the moist squeeing this realization spawned from those handful of pre-pubescent players who love flying around in Hydras and repeatedly killing other players who are minding their own business. On the other hand, those GTA fans who wanted to immerse themselves in the new black market mechanic saw this as more than a nuisance.
While we've covered anti-griefer techniques in the past, put together a quick tutorial on how to get into your own empty public lobby whenever you want as well as a guide of our own regarding Finance and Felony, Rockstar's own guide has some pretty handy tips.
Since you unfortunately cannot do any black market missions in private lobbies — which, we admit, is a fault of the DLC — you can hop through lobbies until you encounter one with no asshole players around. Trust us, these are more frequent than most online forums would have you believe. Alternatively, have one of your associates hop into a Hydra of their own and grief the assholes right back.
Background
Further Adventures in Finance and Felony builds upon what was possibly the best received DLC since Heists. Executives and Other Criminals was added to GTA Online back in December 2015 and brought with it a new level of gameplay with the VIP and Bodyguard system.
While more than enough words have been written about being a great VIP and a reliable Bodyguard, it never hurts to re-iterate how influential that DLC was. After all, it is SecuroServe which provides CEOs with associates in this update too.
The Office
The crux of becoming the biggest shark in the pool (which in this case is Los Santos) is getting the right office. There are four offices on offer, each with a different price tag. Functionally, they are all identical — the players with the cheapest offices have the same chances at success as the ones with the most expensive offices.
With the pricier HQs, you really just paying for the location, size and bragging rights. In this sense, being a CEO in GTA Online is much like being a CEO in real life — tossing money out the window for some flashy luxuries is in direct relation to your social standing.
Each office also gives players access to the same optional bonuses — if you pay extra, of course. These include a gun locker, a safe and accommodations.
Apartments
The accommodations turn the office into a proper apartment, allowing characters to sleep and change outfits in the office, while the gun locker finally brings weapon loadout customization to GTA Online, allowing players to dump unused guns in order to make weapon selection quicker.
All stock offices come with boardrooms with a cool 3D map of Los Santos that has both purchased and available warehouses marked, a home cinema with a gaming system (and hence a mini-game) and your handy SecuroServe desktop which will be used to coordinate your corporate activities.
Your Personal Assistant
Another bonus that all CEOs in GTA Online will get with their office is a personal assistant, the gender of which can be freely chosen by the player. The assistant does all kinds of nifty things, like keeping you notified of the happenings regarding your business; they call in Pegasus vehicles to your office's landing pad; they recover impounded rides and enable fast travel back to the office.
However, undoubtedly their most useful feature is refilling your snacks.
For free.
That alone earns them a raise, no.
SecuroServe
Once you have the office, you should simply access that SecuroServe terminal we talked about and register yourself as a GTA Online CEO (if only it were so easy in real life). There are fewer restrictions in place for CEO-hood than there were for being a VIP — there is no required minimum bank balance, there is no time limit nor is there a cooldown period after un-CEOing yourself.
Warehouses
Next up, in order to become a black market kingpin you need stuff to sell — but before you acquire said stuff, you need someplace that stuff goes. That someplace happens to be a warehouse — or, actually, up to five warehouses. These come in small, medium and large flavors, but buying one isn't final as you can always upgrade.
These warehouses all come stocked with a workbench which can be used to apply special upgrades to delivery vehicles. These upgrades are particularly useful against socially insecure players who live out their fantasies in GTA Online as they include the likes of armor plating and homing missile jammers.
The temptation to go for the flashiest office and to stock up on large warehouses early on might be strong, but we suggest not to take that leap — it will set you back several million which you won't earn back quickly, but you can always upgrade later. Black market missions need time to get a move on, so you'll be doing a lot of work before turning a profit — however, once things start up, you'll be making tons of dough.
Players can purchase warehouses in a range of sizes—small, medium, and large—each with a specific crate holding capacity. Large warehouses offer the most holding space, while small warehouses offer the least.
Buy Missions (Crates)
Once you're set up with a warehouse, its time to go on your first buy mission. These missions are where you acquire crates of cargo that you will later sell for a greater amount, hence profit. You can choose to carry one to three crates at a time, however the more you carry, the greater the risk.
These crates will attract the attention of other players and NPC enemies as well, so you need to make sure your team is ready for opposition. Sometimes it is worth doing multiple 1 crate missions instead of risking the three, however at other times the opposite is true.









