WHy laundry the money

[Bryant800]

Why its neccesary to laundry

[lilsnowball]

You need to launder it to avoid the authorities asking where the money came from

[TeqkillaWarlorde]

ATM deposit limits

[IvoryTemplar]

Because you can only deposit 10k a week. If you want to progress very slowly, you can avoid laundering money, but I don't see why anyone would want to do something that dumb.

[killerdecoy]

money is dirty handled by lots of people, need to clean it up.

[Skinny's Books]

TBH there doesn't seem to be a big point in it. You can stash cash in storage shelves and safes. Beyond needing money in the bank for deliveries, there's no real downside to just stashing it away. Worst case scenario, you get busted and cops take some of your cash.

You can buy almost everything with cash via the warehouse. You have to pay employees with cash. Dead drops take cash. In person meets take cash. The thrift store takes cash. The only things that need bank money is the hardware store, gas station, boutique shop, realtor and car dealer. Gas station is the only place you may hit regularly because after getting the warehouse, the only thing you'll need at the hardware store is just fertilizer and soil.

The dev could make it necessary and limit the places we can spend cash but as it stands, there's no benefit to it really. You can play with laundering or ignore it. Won't really effect anything. Most of your XP comes from making deals, not depositing money.

[cdog]

you need large amounts of money on a bank account to buy the properties and vehicles

[Freeze]

Some places take cash in person but you have to pay in advance for home delivery. that takes the bank money

[KellyR]

The weekly cash deposit limit is an actual thing in RL (The government requires banks to report cash deposits in excess of a certain amount each week. So basically if you were regularly depositing more than that, the FBI may show up to ask you exactly where you're getting all that cash.

So it's simulated in this game with the $10k a week deposit limit. And you launder your cash through businesses so that when the feds come to ask you can be like "Oh I made that money from my legitimate laundromat business dawg."

[Manimaniac]

So it doesn't stink

[KellyR]

So, protip: Time stops at 4am, and many processes stop progressing, like your plants stop growing. But other processes keep going, so you can, for instance, keep mixing products until you run out of ingredients.

More salient to this post though, money laundering is one of the processes that keeps running.

So once 4am rolls around, you can basically keep setting up new money laundering orders every 24 minutes (Since one RL minute = 1 hour in game), and if you're willing to sit there and wait through several cycles of that, you can launder as much as you want in a single in-game "day".

[StrangeAK47]

because of all the horse semen

[Cherub]

what I don't like is I bought businesses to launder yes, but these businesses otherwise give zero profit. why? cheap ass businesses

[KellyR]

Nguyên văn bởi Cherub:

what I don't like is I bought businesses to launder yes, but these businesses otherwise give zero profit. why? cheap ass businesses

Money laundering works by pretending that your cash is profits from the business you're laundering through. This means that if the business is profitable, it's harder to hide your drug profits, because they would make the profits look unrealistically high.

But if the business makes no real profit to start with, then you can hide more money more easily, You can use creative accounting to make it look like the business is running a small, totally believable profit that way.

So that's probably why the businesses make no money. If they were profitable you wouldn't be buying them.

[KingeOrge]

Nguyên văn bởi Skinny's Books:

TBH there doesn't seem to be a big point in it. You can stash cash in storage shelves and safes. Beyond needing money in the bank for deliveries, there's no real downside to just stashing it away. Worst case scenario, you get busted and cops take some of your cash.

You can buy almost everything with cash via the warehouse. You have to pay employees with cash. Dead drops take cash. In person meets take cash. The thrift store takes cash. The only things that need bank money is the hardware store, gas station, boutique shop, realtor and car dealer. Gas station is the only place you may hit regularly because after getting the warehouse, the only thing you'll need at the hardware store is just fertilizer and soil.

The dev could make it necessary and limit the places we can spend cash but as it stands, there's no benefit to it really. You can play with laundering or ignore it. Won't really effect anything. Most of your XP comes from making deals, not depositing money.

In the late game, if you want to make advanced mixes and you need a lot of stock, you will have to spend large amounts of money in the bank as the material orders are paid via bank account. It is not uncommon to spend $5000 to $7000 a day on material at that level, I talk about stacks of 160 units per item, (a large stand) and for example a récipe with 8 mixes you need 160 units multiply by 8, thants a lot of money vía account and not cash... so laundering is necessary since $10,000 a week at the ATM is not enough.

[Capo Rip]

The Realtor is why the money laundering is useful. That's the thread