I don't consider myself stupid, but answers online confuse me re Warhouse techs

[Sanfranman491]

Ok, I have an office, bunker, MC club, Nightclub, and cash creation. I use MC president instead of CEO. I WAS a CEO and had Special Goods crates running. And also my bunker is closed Because it's at the top of the map.
With all that said, my Nightclub computer is slightly confusing. I have 2 techs hired, because Cargo and shipments, and cash creation were both highlighted, so I figured I needed a tech assigned to each. But I'm not running my CEO crates or my bunker so where are Cargo/shipments coming from?
Ok that's one of my issues. The other is the icons.
Why is one tech a checkmark and the other a person icon? If they're both working, why aren't they the same? And, if I actually have a cash factory, should that tech have the tick or person icon? Do I need a 3rd tech if those 2 businesses are only ones open? Should I open bunker despite its location?
Cargo stock is 7/20. If running solo, when should I sell?
If you read all this and took time to answer, you are a very good person, because it's alot and I'm sorry about that. I will look on YouTube for clarification as well.
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[kr3m]

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

Ok, I have an office, bunker, MC club, Nightclub, and cash creation. I use MC president instead of CEO.

Depending on what you're doing, you may want to consider registering as CEO or MC President. Each has their own perks. CEO can recover health when taking cover, and organization employees can recover health as well by taking cover within proximity to the CEO. MC members are able to use their MC submenu in the interactive menu to instantly summon any motorcycle (including the mk2). When I say instantly, I mean your bike shows up as soon as the menu closes; no waiting for a delivery like with the mechanic or vehicle request feature in the interactive menu. So if you're running preps in free roam, MC President might be the way to go, but when it comes to doing a heist or the final mission, going CEO might give you a little better of a chance.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

I WAS a CEO and had Special Goods crates running. And also my bunker is closed Because it's at the top of the map.

Research is something you'll want to do. Always order supplies as stealing takes several missions to get the same amount of supplies as 75k costs. Even Simeon missions can make you that money in the same amount of time and are much easier than trying to steal supplies in a session with a griefer. Research is the only way to unlock special ammo and special weapons for vehicles, and other similar things (like thermal scope for the heavy rifle). Worth keeping open just for research, then you can shut it down after.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

With all that said, my Nightclub computer is slightly confusing. I have 2 techs hired, because Cargo and shipments, and cash creation were both highlighted, so I figured I needed a tech assigned to each. But I'm not running my CEO crates or my bunker so whee is Cargo/shipments coming from?

I'm not 100% if you need the business active or not, all I know is the only passive business I bother with is the NC because I simply dislike the delivery missions and don't like relying on others to help me make deliveries. So I have my other businesses active, but I don't supply them so there's no product to run and I don't have to worry about raids.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

Ok that's one of my issues. The other is the icons.
Why is one tech a checkmark and the other a person icon? If they're both working, why aren't they the same? And, if I actually have a cash factory, should that tech have the tick or person icon? Do I need a 3rd tech if those 2 businesses are only ones open?

Checkmark means the employee has been assigned to accruing product for that category. The person icon means that employee is currently selected. They should be assigned to the product with a correlating person icon. If the person icon has an exclamation mark in it, that means they have completed filling said product and cannot work on it any further.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

Should I open bunker despite its location?

Yes, for research if nothing more.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

Cargo stock is 7/20. If running solo, when should I sell?

No matter the size of the cargo or amount of supplies you have in the NC business, you can move NC product solo. This is why the NC is the only passive business I'll do deliveries for.. The catch is the NC has it's own delivery vehicles and YOU have to purchase them. Maybe that's why I like the NC deliveries even more tho, that custom pounder with mounted rockets is a good line of defense against cargo griefers.

Tip: Tony will collect 10% of the action but is capped at collecting 100k. So if you upgrade NC storage to max, fill up all of the product categories, and sell all the product at once, you can gross about $1.6m on the single delivery. The downside is this takes a substantial amount of game time to rebuild the stock. I average about one delivery every couple weeks.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

If you read all this and took time to answer, you are a very good person, because it's alot and I'm sorry about that. I will look on YouTube for clarification as well.✌️

Cheers and good luck

[kr3m]

Worth noting, depending on the size of your delivery, you will need different sized vehicles.

For small deliveries, like 20/20 cargo for one category, you'll need the Speedo Custom. This is a van that you can put a wedge, plated armor and a remote mini gun on.

For medium deliveries, like a fully upgraded cargo warehouse where one category is completely full (80/80; 100/100; etc), you'll need the Mule Custom.

For large deliveries, like selling everything all at once as previously mentioned, you will need the Pounder Custom.

All 3 of these vehicles can be purchased from Warstock Cash & Carry and can be modified in your NC Garage #1. All 3 of these vehicles can also be summoned at any time in freeroam using the special vehicles selection of the vehicles submenu in your interactive menu.

Edit: I think the Speedo is provided with the NC, but the Mule and Pounder have to be purchased separately.

[Sanfranman491]

Thanks so much. Good stuff

[Sanfranman491]

One thing I'm curious on though: my cash factory is active, my CEO crates are not. Which icon do I assign the techs for my cash and for cargo, between the check ✔️ and statue?
Also, if I change to CEO for a bit, will my cash factory stop producing due to being a MC Club operation?

[in]

Nightclub runs on it's own and produces it's own product. You only need to have other businesses running for assigning itself. It's best to keep them empty cause they suck and just cause extra problems.

[jas385]

kr3m provided the most comprehensive answer, but I've got just a few points to elaborate on:

1. The Speedo Custom does indeed come with the nightclub.

2. Your shipment will use the smallest vehicle that can accommodate it, so I wouldn't bother buying the Mule Custom at all (it's fairly slow), just the Pounder Custom for deliveries too large for the Speedo.

3. You do need the businesses set up and open in order to accrue product, but you don't have to be actively using them (i.e., you can have your biker businesses open but not supplied). You can also accrue CEO product (crates) and MC products simultaneously even though you can't be registered as both at the same time. (I'd recommend not registering as a MC president unless you're actively running the businesses, since they seem to get raided more often than your other businesses. You can't be raided if you aren't registered.)

In short, you can set up all your businesses and just ignore them, and your NC technicians will still work.

[kr3m]

Originally posted by in:

Nightclub runs on it's own and produces it's own product. You only need to have other businesses running for assigning itself. It's best to keep them empty cause they suck and just cause extra problems.

This.. if you chose to supply the MC businesses for passive profit, they will continue to produce product from supplies as long as you have supplies and are in game. I do not believe it matters if you are MC, CEO or even passive and not registered at all. The MC businesses, like the Bunker deliveries, will often require help, or will take nearly all of the allotted time to complete solo.

Additionally, MC businesses with product in stock tend to initiate/trigger "Raid" events in the game. These are the worst because they happen as soon as you complete something and there's no way out of them without accepting defeat/loss. They can be very inconvenient when it comes to having other plans. For the combined reasons mentioned, the MC businesses are a personal preference that I personally don't feel is worth the BS.

Originally posted by strickerj:

2. Your shipment will use the smallest vehicle that can accommodate it, so I wouldn't bother buying the Mule Custom at all (it's fairly slow), just the Pounder Custom for deliveries too large for the Speedo.

Good point, thank you for covering that. Mule and Pounder's are only necessary after upgrading to larger storages. I think I can do a full 100% delivery on a fully upgraded storage for a single category with the Mule. I only need the Pounder when I'm selling 1.7m worth from all 7 categories at once.. Screwing Tony out of 70k xD

Originally posted by strickerj:

In short, you can set up all your businesses and just ignore them, and your NC technicians will still work.

they still cost you money daily, but you don't have to worry about upgrading the MC businesses or supplying them.. fair warning, if you do upgrade the businesses, your daily costs of operations for that business will go up..

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

true nc is separated and by far is best on its own for passive money

[jas385]

Originally posted by kr3m:

Originally posted by strickerj:

In short, you can set up all your businesses and just ignore them, and your NC technicians will still work.

they still cost you money daily, but you don't have to worry about upgrading the MC businesses or supplying them.. fair warning, if you do upgrade the businesses, your daily costs of operations for that business will go up..

The one nice thing though is you don't accrue those daily fees unless you're registered as a MC president. (It's the same with the warehouses when you aren't registered as a CEO.) That and the raids are good reasons to not be registered unless actively managing the businesses. (You will incur the fees immediately upon registering as a MC president if you've been in the current session at least 48 minutes - it's based on that rather than just time actively registered.)

[Sanfranman491]

Geez....I always register at beginning of.my session, for either cuz I just assumed there's perks available. I'm rank 75 to give you idea how long I've been playing and I've always registered as either.

[Levianne]

You don't have to be registered at all and all your active businesses will still produce income, but you have to register as CEO, MC President or V.I.P. to access (and manage) the Night Club computer and to see that your businesses are still doing their job (if enough technicians are assigned, that is). So if you're not registered, your businesses still do work and you can go your way, do what you like, sell cars, do missions, bully people or whatever, but to actually earn that money from them, you have to register and manage the stuff (do the specific delivery from your Night Club, which also sucks when you have to do that in public, fortunately Solo Public trick still exists).

[jas385]

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:

Geez....I always register at beginning of.my session, for either cuz I just assumed there's perks available. I'm rank 75 to give you idea how long I've been playing and I've always registered as either.

Yeah I used to also until I realized there was no need. I'll still sometimes register as a CEO when not running businesses for the CEO Vehicles and Abilities, but there's really no upside to MC President.