Even though everyone more or less agrees that Grand Theft Online was an enormous disaster that squandered its great potential due to Rockstar’s incredibly poor economy driven by the need for Shark Cards, fans everywhere have basically given up pushing back against the rise of microtransactions in favor of just accepting life as it is. As a result, Red Dead Online is booming in popularity despite Rockstar having learned nothing from their last outing. If you’re one of the brave few trying to enjoy the game’s onlinᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe half without gꦓiving into Gold Bars, you’re probably struggling, but that’s why we’re here.
Although making money online is both time consumඣing and initially difficult, it is by no means impossible. Rockstar is not so evil where players who refuse to give into microtransactions will be barred from progress. You’ll need to dedicate some time, of course, but there are some surprisingly easy methods for money making online. Some are even deceptively simple, making use of ideas that almost seem too obvious to work. That’s the beauty of any online world, though- sooner or later, players will discover the most optimal ways of progression through trial and error, and teamwork. Rockstar’s economy might be🦄 intentionally horrible, but that doesn’t mean we can’t game the system.
25 The Stone Hatche💙t And You
The Stone Hatchet is one of the best weapons you can get in Red Dead Online, at least insofar as melee weapons go, but actually getting the hatchet requires you to play a fair bit of Grand Theft Online. If you don’t🌊 have access to both games, moജve along because you won’t be getting this hatchet.
In GTO, do five bounties for Eccles and then you’ll unlock the hatchet. With the hatchet, slaughter 25 opponents with it and you’ll unlock access to it in Red Dead Online. Hop onto RDO and you’ll need to find the🐎 Stone Hatchet near the burial site. It’s a bit of work, but it isn’t difficult to get done by any means.
24 Don’t B♌𓂃uy Clothes
In an online game, it’s only natural customization play a key role. Ultiꦑmately, every player will want to carve out their own personal identity in the economy of the game. Doing so requires money, though, and buyiꦗng new clothes to customize your avatar is going to run your wallet dry fast.
Get used to those default clothes.
This does mean, unfortunately, you shouldn’t be buying clothes. Ever. The less you spend on clothes, the 𒁏more money you’ll naturally be spending.꧅ You should only buy clothes when you have a surplus of money that you truly do not need. Otherwise, you’re throwing your cash down a virtual sink with no bottom.
23 ﷽ Or Upgrades 🐼
On that note, this also means you should avoid buying upgrades as much as possible. This is a bit more problematic since upgrading your weapons will actively make the game a smoother experience, but this is a luxury we can’t afford. Literally. You’re better off savinꦆg your money and getting accustomed to the guns as they come. A skilled or talented player won’t need upgrades to play well. Does it eliminate your in-game identity even more so? Most definitely, but that’s just an unfortunate consequence of Rockstar’s online game design.
22 🍒 ✤ Hunting Perfect Pelts
If you don’t stop to study every single🀅 animal in your path, you simply aren’t hunting correctly. When you study a new animal, you specifically get information on how to obtain a perfect pelt from skinning them. As hunting plays such a large role in making easy money online, you’ll naturally want perfect pelts.
Only fools don't study their prey.
Whenever you see an animal on your hunt, simply steady your study on them and adjust your equipment to match what the blurb suggest you hunt them with. Keep in mind that your equipment not only has to be exact, you need to aim for a clean kill without damaging the animal ไtoo much.
21 Never Eat
You need to eat to survive, this is not debatable. Should you stop eating for long enough, your stats will decrease and you’ll find it incredibly difficult to have enough stamina to get around anywhere. Did 🃏you think we meant real life? You know what kind of article you’re reading. That said, let’s not eat, alright?
For every can of beans you feed your virtual avatar, you’re throwing away precious money that can be placed into your wallet. Sell your food, don’t eat them. Sometimes you might need to eat in order to actually survive, bu♛t… don’t. It’s counterintuitive, but it’s an easy way to make money. If you want to eat, get ready to be poor. Online’s weirdly realist🅰ic, isn’t it?
20 The Le💙isure ꧂Of Fishing
Red Dead Redemption II might actually have one of the easiest fishing mini-games in the entire medium. Traditionally, a fishing mini-game requires quite a bit of effort on the player’s end, but Rockstar decided to go easy on our thumbs. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing as it means you can catch fish online incredibly fast. Regardless of which fish you catch, you’ll fi♕nd yourself with more than enough soggy critters to trade into the butcher, earning you a respectable payday from just lounging about.
19 ꧂ Catching The Steelhead Trout
The Steelhead Trout is easily one of the best fish you can find in the game. Not just because it makes for a good and reliable meal, but because it fetches a ni𓆏ce price. All you need is some worm bait one of t♍he cheapest baits in the game) and to fish in either the Kamassa River, Flat Iron Lake, Lannahechee River, Lower Montana River, or San Luis River.
Don't even think about eating that trout, though.
If you can manage to catch a few Steelhead Trouts, you’ll be able to cash in a bigger profit than you would just be 🐟leisurely fishing. Of course, the fish’s notorܫiety does mean you’ll likely be competing with some players so there is still a benefit to fishing elsewhere. If you can get a quiet spot, though, the Steelhead Trouts will be kind to you.
18 Alligator Skinning 🎀 💜
Go to any swamp on the map and just start going to town on alligators. Well, maybe not “to town” since the key to hunting is ensuring you get a perfect pelt each time, but꧅ the point is that alligators will fetch you quite the pretty penny. Slaughter as many alligators as you can (cleanly, of course,) and take them to the butcher for a handsome payday.
So long as you can gun down alligators fast enough, you’ll never be in any real danger and the ease of taking t🐻hem out will pay for itself before you know it. Thankfully, alligator hu🍒nting isn’t all too popular as of yet so this is a reliable and peaceful way of making some easy money. So long as you get those perfect pelts, of course.
17 ꦍ Shoꦦot Every Bird
There are a lot of birds online, and we do mean A LOT of birds. You cannot go anywhere on the map without looking into the sky and seeing flocks of birds in the distance. More often than not, you’ll only notice these birds when you’re on your way to a new location, but you really should take the🐠 time to shoot them down.
The world's got enough birds.
So long as you shoot every single miserable bird in your path, you’re going to end up with an incredible amount of feat✨hers in your satchel. While feathers may not fetch much of a price on their own, a surplus of them will net you a nice payday, especꦡially if you sincerely do take your time to shoot every bird you see.
16 ꧃Race Series ▨
Although the main draw of the online component is the freedom of playing as your own character in the game’s overworld, there is a more organized set of multiplayer modes unified through the “series” moniker. In a “series” mode, you basicalജly play through conventional competitive modes for money.
The Race Series is one of the most reliable- and most fun thanks to how unique it is- pitting you against other players as you race your horses on different tracks. This really isn’t muc💜h different from the first game’s racing mode, but it does make for a reliable of earning money. If nothing else, it’s easy enough to boot up and play.