Ever since the Further Adventures in Finance and Felony update was released for GTA Online, the new CEO missions have become the best way of earning money. Granted, the griefer issue has become a lot more pronounced than before, but you can always drop into a public lobby where you are alone by following these steps.
The NPC opposition is negligible, and since you are alone, the mood-swings of other players' internet won't affect you due to the peer to peer server architecture, making a disconnect unlikely. Soloing (or running with a few associates) crates rivals heists in terms of profits in GTA Online right now, making the new content one of the best ways to stack up cash for those bigger purchases.
Thanks to some helpful members of the GTA community, we've been able to find out exactly how much you'll earn by running heists and how to distribute the bounty if you are hosting. Now, once again with the help of the community, we can compare those figures to the exact amounts of cash you'll earn while running special cargo crate jobs.
Finance and Felony added an all new black market mechanic to GTA Online, wherein as a CEO you must buy one or more warehouses of varying sizes, buy illicit goods, take them to your warehouse and eventually sell them off to the right buyer. There are a number of factors at work here, such as the size and number of warehouses you have, how many crates you move at once, how long they stay in your warehouse, how much of a given good you own, whether it is special cargo or not and much more.
With all of these factors, it might be tough figuring out which course of action is the most profitable. Add to this the possibility of getting your crates blown up by some jerk in a populated public lobby, and the whole affair seems pretty risky. While there can be no gain without risk, it is better not to put millions of GTA $ on the line — if you want risk, you can always try Premium Races.
