Hello, ladies and gents.
Today I want to talk about the police pay. By the word "pay" I mean anything and everything that makes a player money for being specifically a cop. The post will focus directly on comparing how much money players who play more of the cop job make, compared to criminals, how much they make in various ways. And all of this is compared as you were to be max rank, that is level 100 and rank 10 cop.
So, first of all, I do not have a list of all the actions a cop specifically can make to earn money and how much money they make for each action, if someone can provide that, would be great!
I did a test over this week. Every day, during prime-time (the time when there are the most players on), I went on the cop job and played in 2 different ways.
Method 1:- I geared my character out from the cop store with various weapons that I'd need in fight and chases, bought armor, medkit all that good stuff.
- Used a police car. That is normal cruiser and sometimes the fast cars, like Infernus, Bullet etc.
- Chased any and all criminals that were yellow or higher.
- All oranges/reds I tried to deliver to pd, if they resisted, arrested them without the bonus.
- Tried to stop as many bank robberies etc. as I could.
Method 2:Because the /bribe is completely dumb right now, you can just get bribed all day long without any cooldown or punishment.
- So I just sat at the police departament near the cells and just offered bribes and took bribes. I didn't only take $500 bribes, but also asked for 1'000 and sometimes even 2'000, mostly to players that I know can afford w/o issues.
- Watched Netflix in the process
So, I'll remind you that I did this for 5 days, both methods.
I pulled average stats across the 5 days.
Method 1:- 1 hour :: ~$15'000
Method 2:- 1 hour :: ~$40'000
So, that's the information I gathered. Doing your work, pays terribly. Only accepting bribes and half-afking in the pd awarded me with 40k per 1 hour of afking.
I want to also do criminal comparison to cop, but logically, you can rob the bank 1 time per day and get like 14-20k every time you rob it, so in 1 hour you should be able to do it 3 times, so 45-60k. I don't remember the times, since I haven't played that seriously in a long while. Also as a criminal you can go get safes, rob stores, etc.
One thing you should take in to account is that I was lucky with my measurings, because all the time I measured, there was a decent amount of cops online, so it was easier to capture criminals and also bribe them in prison. If there are too many cops, Method 2 will be really bad or won't work at all, but if there is a shit ton of criminals, you won't be able to do Method 1, because you'll just get killed over and over again.
