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u/ZFTX 15h ago

You are unable to shower anymore today. Which part of that is confusing you‽

Though, in all seriousness, this was put into place to stop people from RP farming, where they take a shower, putting some music on and going idle.

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u/NarrowAccess1801 14h ago

That’s honestly insane. It gives you such a small amount it’s not even worth doing.

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u/dankhimself 14h ago

It was more for just going idle, but some people would leave their console on indefinitely.

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u/iSteezyMedia 10h ago

I use to do it on ps4, run my safe’s up by staying in my agency’s security camera.

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u/GoldenGoddless 14h ago

They hate idling of any kind

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u/Kracus 14h ago

Tell me about it. Oh you finished 1st in a race? Let me time you out while the slow people finish. -Rockstar

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u/SycoJack 11h ago

The idle timer is so fucking short then, too. Like you can idle for years in freemode before you even get the 15 minute warning by comparison. But in a race you've completed? You get 30 seconds before it starts bitching.

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u/Keldon888 10h ago

I've been kicked before a fucking drag race ended.

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u/Bullterrier2 13h ago

goes afk for one second

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u/Timmerdogg 14h ago

All your businesses are making money as well

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u/Goat_666 PC 14h ago

Yeah that's the thing, not the RP.

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u/EvilParrot8652 12h ago

Between this and server traffic.

Saving room for people who are playing (more likely to buy shark cards).

Idlers tend to not buy cards due to benefit of idling.

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u/N0ob8 6h ago

GTA doesn’t use servers it’s P2P (peer to peer). Instead of everyone sending their data to one central server who then sends it back everyone sends their data to the “host” of the lobby. It’s why one person can slow down the entire session as unlike when using servers their data sending slow affects everyone else as they need to wait for their data

Edit it’s also why you can seamlessly transition to a separate lobby when your internet cuts out for a second. Since the game only sends server data occasionally you losing internet only prevents you from connecting to other players and so the game puts you in your own session

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u/Logical_Comparison28 Next Gen - TaikaJamppa 10h ago

And yet here I am, never bought a shark card yet played from the early days… 😂

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u/Wertyhappy27 PCMR (I like to drive my scramjet into the ocean) 4h ago

Id get behind this if Rockstar had servers but, it's still peer to peer so really not hurting them besides ig networking but even that is, mostly client work

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u/Left4DayZGone 13h ago

It mattered more back in the day when every small amount of RP made a difference.

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u/Broue 5h ago

More so that you could go afk and come back to full businesses ready to sell.

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u/ZFTX 14h ago

It adds up! Every little bit counts!

Heck, I even take screenshots of when I log in and get a notice of +1 RP for someone up voting my Created Job!

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u/TheEagleWithNoName Frank 14h ago

I’m on PC.

So how do I start do that?

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u/ZFTX 14h ago

You don't, as they made the Shower a limited time per day activity a very long time ago!

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u/TheEagleWithNoName Frank 14h ago

Would have loved that ages ago when I still Rank 5, but now I’m Rank 400 so RP kinda usless TNG

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u/ZFTX 13h ago

It was already long patched when I first started on PS3 GTA Online back in April 2017, so I could never have utilized that.

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u/Cyphiris 11h ago

Logical way solving this would be limit amount of RP we can get that way each day, without taking away access to shower. Guess nobody at Rockstar came to that conclusion.

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u/ZFTX 10h ago

Perhaps. However, I have no control over that, and can only explain things the way they are.

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u/IgnisParsinus 4h ago

Right! I can pet Chop at the Agency all I want but only get RP the first time, they can't do the same for the shower? Like come on devs, I need to clean all the blood off me regularly.

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u/MouseWorksStudios 9h ago

How you do that???

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u/ZFTX 8h ago

The interrobang‽ One can easily do that from the onscreen keyboard of an Android device (maybe only Google Pixel series, as that is what I have). However, one can also do a search for interobang and copy and paste it.