How many (crate) warehouses can you have?

[jorgrmcr]

Is there a limit on the number of CEO warehouses you can own? I currently have 2 small ones, but I would like to add another small one or a medium one, and maybe later a large one

[in]

5

[ShelLuser]

I believe the maximum amount is 5. But for regular gameplay you really don't need that much, unless you're also playing with friends and such.

See, the problem with warehouses is that bigger warehouses don't always make you more money. Because you'd normally also buy more crates to fill 'm up quicker, but the more crates you buy at once the higher the price so you'll end up with less profit.

And in the end selling (for example) 16 crates in a small warehouse (= fully filled) pays exactly the same as selling 16 in a medium sized warehouse (when you got 32 crates you can also sell half (so 16)). Of course the only difference (in my situation) is that I get 2 crates at once for my medium sized warehouse and 1 crate for my small one.

1 costs you 2k, 2 cost you 8k. So: 16 crates in a small warehouse (1 per purchase) would have cost me 32k whereas 16 crates in a medium sized warehouse would have taken me 64k (16 only) or in my example of 32 crates and selling half it would have been 128k; that heavily eats away in your profit.

Which is also why having more warehouses doesn't always result in more profit.

[in]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

I believe the maximum amount is 5. But for regular gameplay you really don't need that much, unless you're also playing with friends and such.

See, the problem with warehouses is that bigger warehouses don't always make you more money. Because you'd normally also buy more crates to fill 'm up quicker, but the more crates you buy at once the higher the price so you'll end up with less profit.

And in the end selling (for example) 16 crates in a small warehouse (= fully filled) pays exactly the same as selling 16 in a medium sized warehouse (when you got 32 crates you can also sell half (so 16)). Of course the only difference (in my situation) is that I get 2 crates at once for my medium sized warehouse and 1 crate for my small one.

1 costs you 2k, 2 cost you 8k. So: 16 crates in a small warehouse (1 per purchase) would have cost me 32k whereas 16 crates in a medium sized warehouse would have taken me 64k (16 only) or in my example of 32 crates and selling half it would have been 128k; that heavily eats away in your profit.

Which is also why having more warehouses doesn't always result in more profit.

That's completely opposite, special cargo scales depending on how many crates you sell. So big warehouses are much more profitable. Btw you can buy 1/2/3 crates for all warehouses. In any case buying 3 at once is a way to go. Anything else is a waste of time. Even if you pay more for 3 that's nothing in the end.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by in:

In any case buying 3 at once is a way to go. Anything else is a waste of time. Even if you pay more for 3 that's nothing in the end.

You're wrong.

See, if I buy 3 crates for a small warehouse (which can hold a maximum amount of 16 crates) then I'm paying 18k per purchase, which means 6k per crate.

Filling up 16 crates means 5 hauls with 3 crates and one with a single crate. So: 15 crates for 6k and 1 for 2k. Meaning that I'll pay 90k + 2k = 92k. You can sell for 240k no matter what so your profit will be 240 - 92 = 148k

If I fill up my warehouse with one crate per time then I only pay 16 x 2 = 32k for my crates. So I make a profit of 240 - 32 = 208k.

So you're basically saying that 60k is peanuts which I have to disagree with.


The problem is that you're overlooking the one main rule for making money on GTAO: it takes time. Missions which end quickly will always make you less money than those which take longer (and are harder). You see it contact missions (finish it quickly and you don't earn that much, take longer and you'll also make a lot more money), you see it in VIP missions (payout of sightseer vs. headhunter for example) and also CEO missions.

Saving time means earning less, it's as simple as that.

[Saps]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Saving time means earning less, it's as simple as that.

facepalm

[BnN]

..the hell

[Saps]

if you sell 16 then you have 15K per crate.
if you sell 42 - you have 17.5K
111 = 20K per crate
for large warehouse: if you buy 1 crate at once then you have 1998K profit
if you buy 3 per once then you have 1554K
BUT
1 crate per once is 120K per hour
3 crates per once is 230K per hour

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Saps:

if you sell 16 then you have 15K per crate.

That depends on the price for which you bought the crate. And if you buy more crates at once then the price per-crate also goes up. It's really basic mathematics.

Too many players only look at the price for which they sold the stuff without looking at the costs they had to make to get there. You don't get crates, you buy them. So your real profit is the amount for which you sell minus the amount for which you bought them.

Don't tell you me also believe that you make 100k out of selling top-range cars either? You don't. You make 80k at best, probably lower if you damaged the car somewhere during picking up or delivery.

But hey, whatever floats your boat ;)

[Saps]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

It's really basic mathematics.

i guess profit per time is too complicated for you. your limit is addition and subtraction

[Kain]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Originally posted by in:

In any case buying 3 at once is a way to go. Anything else is a waste of time. Even if you pay more for 3 that's nothing in the end.

You're wrong.

Saving time means earning less, it's as simple as that.

That's where you are wrong, please check your math. I'd rather source 3 crates and earn 1,5m in about 5 - 7 hours than source one at a time and earn 1,9 - 2,0m in 14 - 18 hours.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Kain:

That's where you are wrong, please check your math. I'd rather source 3 crates and earn 1,5m in about 5 - 7 hours than source one at a time and earn 1,9 - 2,0m in 14 - 18 hours.

You do realize that buying multiple crates also often means that you get to haul one crate at a time back and forth to your warehouse? Something you don't have to worry about with purchasing 1 crate. This whole thing isn't as clear cut as you think it is.

Not to mention that if you really want to make money you'd be combining activities anyway, so there's no way to pin point spent time on cargo missions alone. Right now I can fill up my small warehouse using 1 crate at a time in roughly 8 hours, which bags me 240k, but that's in combination with other activities as well (such as filling up my medium sized warehouse, TB missions, VIP missions and MC businesses).

I've heard the "money per hour" argument a lot of times but it's overhyped and often misunderstood in my experience. As shown above: buying multiple crates also often means longer missions (hauling one crate at a time) which players usually also completely ignore.

Everything is better if you simply leave out facts ;)

[Kain]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Originally posted by Kain:

That's where you are wrong, please check your math. I'd rather source 3 crates and earn 1,5m in about 5 - 7 hours than source one at a time and earn 1,9 - 2,0m in 14 - 18 hours.

You do realize that buying multiple crates also often means that you get to haul one crate at a time back and forth to your warehouse? Something you don't have to worry about with purchasing 1 crate. This whole thing isn't as clear cut as you think it is.

Not to mention that if you really want to make money you'd be combining activities anyway, so there's no way to pin point spent time on cargo missions alone. Right now I can fill up my small warehouse using 1 crate at a time in roughly 8 hours, which bags me 240k, but that's in combination with other activities as well (such as filling up my medium sized warehouse, TB missions, VIP missions and MC businesses).

I've heard the "money per hour" argument a lot of times but it's overhyped and often misunderstood in my experience. As shown above: buying multiple crates also often means longer missions (hauling one crate at a time) which players usually also completely ignore.

Everything is better if you simply leave out facts ;)

Jesus your last sentence almost made me puke. It's about raw money making with just CEO warehouses. No one is talking about the best money making strats with VIP missions and all that. Yes, you have to drive back and forth for each crate, but its not like you wouldnt have this for 1 crate. .you are also missing out on the fact, that you don't always have to drive back and forth, since not all missions have spread crates, but just one vehicle to deliver.

Yes, you still drive to the point, pick a crate up and then deliver it. The difference is, that you won't drive 3 times more often to your office. 3 times the cooldown for the warehouse and so on.

Even with all kind of VIP missions put between the sourcing, it still doesnt change the fact that I spend less time with a 3 crates mission than with a 1 crate mission.

There is literally data everywhere, people did the math and you are still trying to cover your false claims by saying, we should just leave out the facts? The hell? Do whatever you feel like doing, but dont spread false information. The time difference is there, and people make more money from it.

[jorgrmcr]

Well I bought a medium warehouse, with my 2 small ones I have made a strategy, I leave my bunker making guns, I sell around $140000 point since I can only need 1 car (always selling to LS so make it $220k.

While my bunker is filling, I go and collect crates, I first alternate between my medium one and a small one, when the 1st small is full I then continue with the small empty one and keep filling the medium one.

I just filled 1 small one and I can sell it for 255k +115k from a rare crate. In my medium warehouse I have $325k and in the other small $81k

[Leeric]

Literally took me 30 seconds to google.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/4nszzk/crate_profits_v20_updated_to_111_crates/

And it confirms what mostly everyone knows. 3 crates makes more money vs time, that includes the time to gather all the crates and turn them in, on average. Which means its the most profitable.

[qrees1]

crates is very bad ( unless u just start the game )

Terrorbyte gives u 30k in 3-5 m ( if u do the mission ur way / not wasting time game design )

top range cars - Terrorbyte

Cocaine - meth ( upgrade )

with this ways u can 1.5 - 2 m in 5h