New: The Los Santos City Government
- Los Santos now has a city government: the Office of the Mayor at City Hall, and Public Works, who keep the city clean. Its colour is gray.
- Ranks: Trainee, Worker, Senior Worker, Supervisor, Director of Public Works, Deputy Mayor and Mayor.
- The government has no police powers - no cuffs, no arrests, no guns. Members talk on
/rwith each other and on/dwith the police and the fire and medical department. - The Mayor's office drives black Washingtons and a Cognoscenti.
New: Public Works - the city's job
- The Public Works HQ is in Vinewood - the gray truck icon on the map, also listed in
/nb. - To join, apply: press E at the HQ, type
/joinpw, or use/apply. Three short questions - your character's name, your phone number and why you want to join. A supervisor reads it, and once it's accepted you type/acceptfaction. You need 2 hours played, and gang members can't join. - You start as a Trainee. Clock in at the HQ locker (
/locker, the Duty row) - you get the gray hi-vis and a gray name. - On duty, a work order comes every 15 to 20 minutes. Follow the marker, step on it and press E. Three kinds of work, paid in cash on the spot:
- Street Cleaning ($450): sweep 4 spots with slow, steady strokes and push the litter into the pile.
- Property Cleaning ($600): pressure wash the wall, the garage door and the driveway. Graffiti only comes off at high pressure.
- Crossing Guard ($500 + $10 for every Perfect stop): walk 3 people across. Press A or D to stop the cars in the green zone - 3 misses and a supervisor takes over.
New: Trading cards - Series 1: Los Santos
- 60 cards to collect: 30 Common, 16 Rare, 10 Epic and 4 Legendary, plus two numbered specials - Samuel #000 (the founder's card) and Agent Edrian #E01.
- Buy packs at the counter of any 24/7 with
/buycards- $2,000 for a pack of 5 cards./buycards5 buys five at once (up to 10). Every pack has at least one Rare or better. - Type
/cardsand open your packs on the Packs tab: hold the pack (or SPACE) to tear it open, then click each card to flip it. Rarer cards glow before they turn - Epics and Legendaries get their own moment. - Legendaries are numbered: only 50 of each will ever exist, 25 Agent Edrians and 10 Samuels. Once the last one is found, that card never comes out of a pack again. Pull a Legendary or Samuel and everyone online hears about it.
- The Catalogue tab shows every card in the set with what the shop pays for it, whether you own it or not. Click any card to see it up close.
- Sell spares to the shop from /cards: Common $50, Rare $350, Epic $2,500, Legendary $50,000, Agent Edrian $10,000, Samuel $100,000. Selling is final - a numbered card is gone for good.
- Trade with other players: stand next to them and type
/trade[their ID]. Add cards, sealed packs and cash (cash from level 3), both press Ready, then both Confirm. - Complete a set for a cash reward and a chat tag: Wildlife $5,000, Rides $10,000, City life $10,000, Landmarks $15,000, and all 60 cards $250,000 (Series 1 Master).
- /path: the Civilian path has a new step, "Open a pack of trading cards".
Los Santos Customs: every upgrade
/tuneat Los Santos Customs (Burton or LSIA) now has everything story mode's shop has for your car: performance, wheels, body parts, interior, engine bay, xenons, window tint, plate style and horns.- New: respray your car - primary and secondary colour, pearlescent and wheel colour, with a live preview.
- Bikes show their own parts. Everything is paid in cash and saved on the vehicle.
New: Things you haven't tried yet
- Right after you log in, a screen shows the jobs, activities and shops you haven't tried yet, sorted into For you, Jobs, Activities, Shops and You missed.
- Pick one to see what it pays or costs and how to start, then press Set waypoint to go there.
- New things wear a NEW badge. Trading cards, Public Works and Los Santos Customs are on it now.
- Open it again any time with
/explore.
Also new
/tophas a Fish caught board (this month) and an all-time Playing hours board - both for bragging rights./topfish and/tophours print them in chat./nbnow lists every place on the map, nearest first - search finds any of them.- Referrals now work through our partners: if a partner gave you a code, enter it when you register or with
/referredbywithin your first 2 hours./referralsshows your progress.
Fixes
- /events: the leaderboard scrolls again and no longer jumps back to the top.
- "Things you haven't tried yet" no longer takes a while to show up after you log in.