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>Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> writes:
>
>> But none of them just let you steal cars and deliver them to the docks
>> and sell them for cash.
>
>True but then again, there wasn't that much you could do with cash
>anyways. Well, in San Andreas there were quite a few safe houses you
>could buy but the earlier ones not so much. GTA3, Vice City and San
>Andreas all had an extremely similar thing, here's a list of cars,
>bring any one of them for cash and a bonus if you get them all. 
>
>GTA3 had also this emergency vehicle crane which accepted all of those
>for cash but only one each. Vice City Stories or Liberty City Stories
>expanded this sort of thing to boats too. Which was excruciatingly
>boring to do especially with a slow sailing boat... In the end these
>were nothing but fedex quests and you had to be careful too to not
>damage the car at least from SA onwards. They should've added an option
>to hire a truck to take the car to wherever... Or in SA with the gang
>stuff it could've been a car theft management minigame. Hire guys, find
>buyers, bribe the cops etc. Take part sometimes if you want to,
>otherwise watch the money roll in.

I guess what bugs me about the whole thing is that most car theft isn't
the high end stuff that's going to be sold elsewhere - it's the more
middle of the road stuff that's stripped for parts and then the parts
are sold.  The first game reflected this - you could sell pretty much
anything to the dock guy.

The later games - it was a list of high end or rare cars only "steal to
order" not the basic car theft you'd expect in a game called grand theft
auto.

>> Haven't actually played GTA4 yet so...
>
>As I recall you get emails in GTA4 about cars that are wanted and a
>general area where it could be found. Didn't do those much, again not
>much use for money in GTA4. Real improvement over SA though where some
>cars could get seriously rare or only had one specific spawn location.

Again - sounds like the "steal to order" bit which is not the core of
the "industry."

They're called chop shops for a reason - the cars do NOT leave intact.

Xocyll
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