GTA Online

ToolGuild builds interactive tools for GTA Online: you put in the figures your own game is showing you, and the tool works out the answer.

There are three here. The Heist Split Calculator turns a take and a set of crew cuts into what each player actually walks away with, and shows what the host is left with once the setup costs they entered come out. The Grind Time Calculator takes what you have, what you want and how fast you earn, and turns them into hours, minutes and sessions of play. The Business ROI Calculator takes what a business costs and what one cycle of it earns, and works out when it has paid for itself — in cycles and in elapsed time — for up to three businesses side by side.

They have something in common that is not an accident. None of them contains a payout table. What a heist pays, what an hour of play is worth and what a business earns are all figures Rockstar changes — permanently, and again for the bonus and discount periods it runs — and none of them is the same for two players, so every one of these tools asks you for the number your own game is showing you. What ToolGuild encodes instead is structure and stated rules, each with the Rockstar page behind it.

They also lead into one another. If the Business ROI Calculator tells you a setup costs more than you have, it will hand the figure straight to the Grind Time Calculator, which works out how long that is at your rate. More GTA Online tools are planned, and they will appear here when they exist rather than as empty pages waiting to be filled.

Every game rule ToolGuild encodes for GTA Online names the current Rockstar Games source it came from and the date somebody checked it. Where Rockstar has not published something — how a cut that does not divide evenly is rounded, for instance — ToolGuild says so instead of guessing.