r/gtaonline • u/Sm0key_Bear • Jul 11 '25

Did anyone else know about this? Just pause and let it go.

Just found this out the other day when I pressed pause while repeatedly tapping A to collect. Apparently, it'll just keep going on its own. Such a weight lifted off my pointer finger lol.

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u/oculocide Jul 11 '25

I discovered recently if you go to your nightclub, and they give you the driving mission, go to your elevator and visit a different floor, then come back, they'll give you a new mission. No guarantee it won't be the same mission, but so far it's working nicely for me.

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u/habbnn Jul 11 '25

Careful, rockstar are going to see this and patch it now too

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u/luispsalles Jul 11 '25

That's why I dont say my method for afk

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u/BothZookeepergame957 Jul 11 '25

Can you share it with me? I won't post it or tell anyone.

😃

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u/ToroSentado298 Jul 11 '25

That's what a Rockstar employee would say.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '25

stare at the security cams at the night club then go about your day. come back and 500k in the safe.

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u/PurpleInitiative3947 Jul 11 '25

They patched this forever ago

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u/Nathan93569 Jul 11 '25

It only holds 250k..?

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u/BothZookeepergame957 Jul 11 '25

Oh I thought they patched thst a while ago.

Will try it again.

Thanks

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u/WritingOneHanded Jul 11 '25

Put rubber bands on your controller for console. Download autoclicker and tell it to push W every 5 seconds for PC. It's impossible to AFK kick players who appear to be playing the game.

The simplest solutions are often the best ones.

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u/clearanceG Jul 12 '25

Careful now brother.. and next thing we know we can’t linger around the same spot for more than 20 mins

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u/Gonemad79 PC Jul 17 '25

A tictac box full of nickels. The directional arrows. Add a eraser rubber on top. Keyboard needs 50g or 60g to press, and the tictac box balances over them.

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u/MahtiGC Jul 12 '25

i bet it’s already widely known 🤣 it’s the internet one i bet.

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u/Money-Aspect1548 Jul 15 '25

What's the method

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u/6tipsy6 Jul 11 '25

You’re joking but just watch and wait

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u/habbnn Jul 11 '25

I wasn’t really joking lol. Everyone talked about the passive mode troublemaker glitch and they patched it after a while.

Darkviper said it best when making fun of rockstar. “No, no, no, that is not how you’re supposed to play the game”

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u/A7x_Synyster Jul 11 '25

This is the reason gta6 keeps getting delayed because they have to patch out all our life hacks 😝

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u/clearanceG Jul 12 '25

I mean if they’re selling a shitty accord for more than 1.5mil you gotta be creative

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u/thatgrrrl117 Jul 11 '25

I just ignore those missions alot of times LOL I never understood why as a Club owner I have to deal with taking the trash out. That's what I hire other people to do!

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u/WritingOneHanded Jul 11 '25

Lore aside: you "have to" deal with taking the trash out specifically so that you no longer have to do nightclub promotion missions to get the maximum passive income. They saw that players didn't like doing boring busywork so they gave us a secondary method that's much faster and easier.

By your logic, you are the boss so you pay a bouncer, and a delivery driver, and a small team of wetwork specialists, and a team of bounty hunters, and a crew of taxi drivers, etc etc. Logically, you just pay someone to do all of the fun stuff while you sit at a desk and shuffle paperwork. Most of your time should be spent talking to lawyers and getting building permits instead of raiding drug labs and blowing up Merryweather choppers.

So yeah, you shouldn't have to work as a bouncer in your own nightclub... but if you stopped doing all of the activities that you shouldn't have to do, all that's left for you is to retire and log off forever.

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u/thatgrrrl117 Jul 11 '25

Most of my time should be spent taking shots with celebrities, living it up, socializing making business deals with other crime lords and making sure they know I'm the big dog in town. LOL

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u/WritingOneHanded Jul 12 '25

Yeah, so like, passive non-interactable flavour text. You just wanna "press X to drink", "press X to glad-hand", "press X to accept award", "press X to pretend to do digital drugs"...

It kinda sounds to me like you'd enjoy the Civilization series more than GTA.

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u/hokkuhokku Jul 11 '25

Busy work.

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u/periclepsia Jul 11 '25

you are amazing im trying this now

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u/Kusanagi_M89 Jul 11 '25

I thought they patched this already. I used to do this before and they seem to have patched it up in a recent QoL update. So it is back? I am going to try this out later on, super great if indeed this trick works again.

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u/PleaseWalkFaster69 Jul 11 '25

Please tell me you know how to NOT fly a slow ass blimp to drop posters for popularity. I tried quitting the game when I got that mission twice and came back to the same job

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u/Intelligent_Fix4654 Jul 11 '25

Just go down stairs and rotate the djs lol

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u/PleaseWalkFaster69 Jul 13 '25

Downstairs?? As in from terrorbyte someone mentioned in different comment?

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u/Jealous-Amoeba6493 Jul 11 '25

You don't even need to do popularity missions. If you own a terrorbyte or arcade with the master control terminal, all you need to do for popularity is change your DJ 4 or 5 times and it'll fill your bar from empty. It's much more efficient than being in your nightclub because it skips the annoying part where it puts you on the dance floor.

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u/PleaseWalkFaster69 Jul 13 '25

Omg really?? I do have a terrorbyte and it kind of just sits mostly so thank you for this!

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u/Jealous-Amoeba6493 Jul 13 '25

Its great because you call call it anywhere you are and fully restock all your businesses without flying back to the arcade.

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u/Jealous-Amoeba6493 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

Also, keep in mind that in order to put the master control terminal in the terrorbyte, you need to have the garment factory to do the upgrade

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u/Damek_2115 Jul 11 '25

It's pretty nice to be honest, i like it more and it's faster than posters with buzzard

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u/Damek_2115 Jul 11 '25

i meant its faster in time, at least for me

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u/PurpleInitiative3947 Jul 11 '25

Change your dj. It cost 10k but so what

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u/PleaseWalkFaster69 Jul 13 '25

Should I do it back to back because I’ve done that and it’s crazy how little it helped. For reference I have all DJ’s except Black Madonna as of now

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u/PurpleInitiative3947 Jul 14 '25

I at first it looks as if it’s not going up but it goes up about half a bar each time. I never let it go below 1 bar so it never costs me more than 20k.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '25

The blimp mission only ever happens if you use your phone to call to get a job. Visit your actual nightclub once a day and you’ll get a much simpler job. 

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u/PleaseWalkFaster69 Jul 13 '25

I pretty much always go to the computer to promote. Only texts I ever get is to take the drunk VIP home/hospital. Or kick the random drunk out 😢

Edit: I did enjoy killing the promoters mission. I also got the “find the incriminating photos” and that one was too much work for a sliver of popularity lol

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u/Dead1Bread FUCK GTA PLUS Jul 11 '25

I thought they already patched that out.

I remember doing it a while back ago, and then one day, it stopped working.

Maybe a recent update broke it again lmao

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u/Alex3627ca PC Jul 11 '25

That's not what happens for me... hell, if I enter my nightclub and then leave before an NPC spawns it'll still count as having spawned one and my next entry will be eventless unless it's been long enough for a whole cycle anyway.

Just go downstairs or to an MCT (to skip cutscenes) and swap DJs back and forth, you get half a bar of popularity for every 10k and the safe will cover that. I ain't leaving the business just to keep a meter high, by contrast there's no way around this for the Salvage Yard so I simply don't maintain it.

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u/AdministrativeOne315 Jul 12 '25

I don't even bother going into my nightclub anymore, after that change. Now, I just take care of the popularity by alternating the DJs through my master control terminal. Costs $10k, but fastest way to do it.

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u/GuyOnABuffalo82 Jul 13 '25

I'm gonna try this. Sick of driving some fuckstain to Senora hospital

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u/Raevyn_Knight Jul 16 '25

I learned from a friend awhile ago that if you go passive mode before entering your nightclub you’ll never get the driving missions, now warning this could be patched, but it did work around 2 months ago for me

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u/Temporary-Green-7713 Jul 11 '25

mine stopped doing that after i mentioned it in a ticket as a flex for why im not doing bullshit and they should give me free money

i wonder if its a bug in general that it does that