The briefing
Published 13 August 2021. This archival report describes the announcement and offers of that period; temporary rewards do not remain active indefinitely.
The Los Santos Empire was a fan concept for expanding legitimate-looking fronts for criminal wealth. It proposed seven business types, including a comedy club, clothes store, restaurant, car wash, hotel and cinema, with multiple locations and customization options.
The design imagined upgrades that would add ten percent to customer revenue and suggested NPC-operated examples in a refurbished Rockford Plaza. Those numbers and properties are part of the proposal, not purchase opportunities in the actual game. The concept’s interest lies in broadening the player’s everyday ownership and giving existing criminal earnings a visible commercial setting. Compare it with real business updates as a design discussion, while keeping its invented costs, revenue systems and missions out of the factual property catalog.
Grow Your Empire Over the past few years, our GTA Online character has been running a variety of false-front "legitimate" business ventures as a way to launder their criminal cash. Be it a nightclub, a retro arcade, or more recently, an auto shop. As we build our criminal empire across Los Santos, we will need more money to justify our financial gains to the IRS. That's why I've came up with seven new seemingly innocent business ventures as a way to launder any dirty blood money we gain. Purchased from the CEO office on the new "Financial Ventures" website at the CEO's desk (Similar to 'The Open Road' from Bikers) players can indulge in a variety of new exciting and interactive businesses, each with a hidden underground bunker holding the s ame level of storage space as seen in After Hours' nightclub business, as well as a safe to bring in passive income from civilian guests. Each of the businesses will have four or five locations around the map, with an NPC-run variant of most available in the newly-refurbished Rockford Plaza mall in order for players to experience the social aspect of the content tied to them – Much like The Music Locker compared to the ‘After Hours’ nightclubs. Player businesses will be able to be upgraded in order to bring in more over-time revenue from customers. Each upgrade will add a 10% boost to revenue. As this money is flowing in, players can hire NPC employees to gather the player’s various types of illicit cargo from across the state to be sold in bulk – Much like the ‘After Hours’ Nightclub warehouses – Only now, the cargo can also be sold in invite-only lobbies so long as the player invests in the all-new $1,450,000 “Cargo signal jammer” for the business they’re choosing to sell from. It’s a steep price at a first glance, but it’s for something priceless – Peace of mind. Naturally, all businesses will be able to be customised with the typical walls, floors, colours and accents available with Rockstar’s recent businesses, and can have a player-set name to really bring in the personal feel. Financial Ventures The Comedy Club
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| Irish-American Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham comes to the stage with his merry band of puppets, pushing the edge of comedy. |
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