How are people making so much money in online?

[Boomer Click Bait]

I have been playing online for a few days now and I have seen videos on YT and they have like 150k and 100+ gold bars. How are they getting so much money? This game seems so counter productive to play online because missions award you with like 7 or 10 bucks and it takes 11 dollars to fast travel. 1800's income with 2020's prices.

[SolidusPrime]

Once your streak gets up to 21 days or something you get .5 gold bars from everything. Streamers play every day, some for hours and hours on end. It adds up pretty quick at that point.

Also - they take money they make from videos and buy game stuff with it to keep viewers interested.

[chaosdemon122]

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

I have been playing online for a few days now and I have seen videos on YT and they have like 150k and 100+ gold bars. How are they getting so much money? This game seems so counter productive to play online because missions award you with like 7 or 10 bucks and it takes 11 dollars to fast travel. 1800's income with 2020's prices.

Either they're using a cheat tool of some kind, or they are ignoring the fast travel system, and focusing on purchasing the most important things instead of spending frivolously. Though, relatively speaking, it IS possible to build up your cash by doing the trader stuff.... I've already hit 2k in cash in a matter of hours today, and I'm only rank 25 (rank 2 in the trader role). It's just a matter of being persistent with doing the missions for the gold: Bounty Hunting role, and stranger missions, but some honest people consistently repeat the story missions, 'helping' new players, but specifically for the rewards upon completion.

[Boomer Click Bait]

God I can barely get story missions to work takes 10-15mins to match make then when I finally get a group after all that time waiting all of the players leave the session which is I am sure the game's fault. I loved the SP but this online mode is trying it's best to get me to stop playing. I really want to enjoy it but it's just so hard.

[Annihilator]

Some youtuber have used glitch on money for that reason have so many. About gold probably farmer it.

[Boomer Click Bait]

I have been matching making this entire time I am now on my 4th attempt to find players.

[Boomer Click Bait]

You know what a good idea would be awards for helping other complete story missions. Like give you double or triple pay for helping someone do a story mission.

[Dr. Peeper]

Originally posted by Annihilator:

Some youtuber have used glitch on money for that reason have so many. About gold probably farmer it.

I have 12k in cash and have hardly played since Jan. It's easy to get cash and gold if you put the hours into it. Trader farms cash big time and 50% more right now as well. Collector will as well. Gold is from Daily Challenges, esp once you own all roles. .5 gold each to eat 3 stews, get drunk, play with band, serve drinks, dance, haircut, etc. It's easy to rack up that gold, even just doing select challenges.

[chaosdemon122]

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

You know what a good idea would be awards for helping other complete story missions. Like give you double or triple pay for helping someone do a story mission.

True true

[Annihilator]

Originally posted by Dr. Peeper:

Originally posted by Annihilator:

Some youtuber have used glitch on money for that reason have so many. About gold probably farmer it.

I have 12k in cash and have hardly played since Jan. It's easy to get cash and gold if you put the hours into it. Trader farms cash big time and 50% more right now as well. Collector will as well. Gold is from Daily Challenges, esp once you own all roles. .5 gold each to eat 3 stews, get drunk, play with band, serve drinks, dance, haircut, etc. It's easy to rack up that gold, even just doing select challenges.

15k is farmed but 100k and over is glicher only. I know one youtuber ads glitch for the money.

[Dr. Peeper]

Originally posted by chaosdemon122:

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

You know what a good idea would be awards for helping other complete story missions. Like give you double or triple pay for helping someone do a story mission.

True true

That's actually a really great idea, even if only for weekly promotions. Submit that idea.
https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadonline

I'm sure they would appreciate ideas for promotions to keep from having to recycle them as often. Same with challenges.

Kick 3 Rabbits is a Daily I want to see. I love chasing and kicking the bunnies.

Or Achievement for Floppy Eared Genocide - Kick 100 Rabbits to Death

Extra points if you do it in front of Harriet ;)

[Terrapin]

As to the op, dailies are your friend. I have every role except Moonshiner and I can get 3-4 gold in 1/2 hour or so doing only the easy ones. If it takes looking up a youtube vid or guide I don't even bother. The key is consistency, if I have a busy day and am afraid I might forget, I get up early and feed my horse 5 times or whatever the easiest one is and then logoff.

[Eminem]

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

I have been playing online for a few days now and I have seen videos on YT and they have like 150k and 100+ gold bars. How are they getting so much money? This game seems so counter productive to play online because missions award you with like 7 or 10 bucks and it takes 11 dollars to fast travel. 1800's income with 2020's prices.

Look at their TOTAL playtime hours, that will answer your question

[Erynar]

It's really not that hard - especially if you play regularly. Once you get your daily challenge streak to 21 days, as long as you retain the streak, every challenge gets you 0.5 gold bars. So, it's pretty trivial to have 100+ gold bars if you're playing every single day (especially if you're playing for multiple hours a day) - even more so if you don't spend gold on much.

Having 150k cash is harder, but if you've been playing for months and don't spend cash often, it's very feasible. The roles make you a _lot_ more cash than stuff like stranger missions do (e.g. a maxed out trader can make $625 for a long distance delivery), and until the Naturalist update, the online collectors map made it trivial to make thousands of dollars a day just from collecting sets for the collector role (after the update, they're far more randomized, so while getting collectibles isn't harder, completing sets is). People who were spending most of their time just grabbing collectibles were making insane amounts of cash. You had a lot of players spending most of their time just doing "collector runs," and plenty of them are mad about the Naturalist update screwing with that.

Also, if you're watching people who play on consoles, they've had about a year longer to play the game than the PC players, meaning that they've had that much more time to rack up gold and cash.

If you're just starting out, it's pretty hard to make either gold or cash quickly, because it takes time to build up your daily challenge streak, and most of the stuff that makes you good cash requires that you have bought and ranked up roles (which require gold to purchase). Also, you end up spending a lot of your cash early on to buy weapons, upgrades for your camp, items for the roles, etc. So, the game just sucks up cash early on, but once you've gotten most of that stuff, it just starts piling up, since pretty much all you have to spend it on are clothes and consumables (and most consumables don't cost all that much and/or can be obtained pretty easily via looting or crafting).

If you're new to RDO, I suggest that you read the info on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDeadOnline/comments/casmw6/red_dead_online_player_guide_new_players/

Also, while they're not necessarily useful right now, you'll want to read this on bounty hunting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDeadOnline/comments/e4mwj9/bounty_hunter_payouts_and_tips

and this on trader: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDeadTraders/comments/dev0dr/red_dead_online_trader_role_materials_value_list/

The online collector's map is here: https://github.com/jeanropke/RDR2CollectorsMap/wiki/RDO-Collectors-Map-User-Guide-(English)

So, those resources should help you figure out more about what's going on as well as how to earn XP, cash, and gold more efficiently.

[chaosdemon122]

Originally posted by Dr. Peeper:

Originally posted by chaosdemon122:

True true

That's actually a really great idea, even if only for weekly promotions. Submit that idea.
https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadonline

I'm sure they would appreciate ideas for promotions to keep from having to recycle them as often. Same with challenges.

Kick 3 Rabbits is a Daily I want to see. I love chasing and kicking the bunnies.

Or Achievement for Floppy Eared Genocide - Kick 100 Rabbits to Death

Extra points if you do it in front of Harriet ;)

GOD YES!!!

[Terrapin]

Oh, I forgot about this one. Once you get the collector role, this is the single most easy way to grind cash if that's what you want. The problem is it gets pretty boring just running from location to location over and over again.

https://jeanropke.github.io/RDR2CollectorsMap/