What's the "offshore" account?

[ArgyleSocks]

Hello, new player here. I'm noticing that the payout of each mission mostly gets tossed into something called the offshore account which you can't do anything with, while the real payout is a fraction of that. What is the offshore account? Is it some sort of player score, or something else?

[Copy & Cat]

Money that youbuse for other things, like offshore cassino where you can get more drop cards and the money that you use to buy contracts

[Chigbunky]

You buy specfic contracts with your offshore account, and can gamble it into random cards.

[Scimitar95]

Originally posted by Christmas Heat:

Money that youbuse for other things, like offshore cassino where you can get more drop cards and the money that you use to buy contracts

or burn it for trophy and coins

[RICK BO]

heister usually funnel most of their funds away to an untouchable offshore account in the case they get caught. They do keep a portion on hand to spend. In Payday this is mostly the same, except the uses of the offshore accounts are quite limited; You can wager offshore dollars in the Offshore paydays for those card drops, or you can use th offshore to back a specfic contract. If there it a heist you want to do at a specfic difficulty level; instead of waiting for it appear you can contract it yourself.

[O_T]

Originally the offshore account was thought to customize the safe house but this wasn't implemented. Some years later a upgradable safe house was implemented but there was to many money on the players accounts. To avoid that most of the players are unlocking everything for the safe house just seconds after release they implemented the Continental Coins as new currency.

You can use the offshore money to buy contracts, go infamous and for "Offshore Payday" only.

[TSense]

your invincible swiss bank account.

Gameplay wise it is a way to control you don't get to much money and that the most expensiv stuff isn't ready after one heist.

Lorewise it is the money you don't reinvest into heisting, but that you put aside for your life. This is the money you and your family will be living off when you end your life as a heister (or die trying).

Wolf for exampel sends his money to his brother, wife and 2 daughters. To be fair he is the guy with the most lore

[E3kHatena]

The offshore account is used to go infamous (I-V only, from VI to XXV it costs nothing), spent on contracts, goes towards purchasing build slots and Offshore Paydays, but otherwise sits just off the DC coast, several million/billion in cash buried beneath the waves where no law enforcement can find it.

I always figured it was a literal "offshore" account

[bruh]

its useless money until you reach to lvl 100 or want to hyog