I don’t know about destroyed, but if you leave it somewhere it should be taken to the impound, where you can retrieve it for a minor sum of cash. I think the impound can only hold 2 cars though, so if you value your car I wouldn’t leave it there too long, it might get replaced by another car you left somewhere, or maybe the impound could already be full because of earlier cars left around the city, so your current car wouldn’t be able to be stored there. The impound only shows on the map if there are cars there, I think it’s just a car logo?
Is the crew cross-platform (at least as far as membership goes)? I know we’re a mix of PS3 and XBox (I’m the latter); if both platforms join the crew, will we automatically see our respective platform-mates when online?
No idea. Try and sign up for the crew and see what happens.
My favourite Trevor-moment so far is jumping into him riding a scooter on the highway following someone else on a scooter, and Trevor shouting random ‘scooter-buddy!’ phrases at him.
I will look up the crew tonight. Additionally, anyone can add me as a friend if you wish, my 360 gamertag is chargerrich 
Crews are platform-neutral (though of course cross-platform play is impossible). If you are active in a crew, you will see the crew acronym next to your name online, as well as those of anyone else. You can create one Crew of your own, and be a member of up to 4 more, though you can only be active in one at a time.
When you go to start a job, you have lots of options on how to invite people - you can invite friends, crew members, people from your current session, people from your last job, and auto-invite (which may prioritize the above, but basically is an open call).
When you join a session online, it is supposed to prioritize crew members and friends. It’s possible to launch sessions that are Crew-only or friend-only, but I think that can only be done via the online menu when you launch it from single player. I could be wrong on that, though.
I’m off to join the SMDB crew!
I haven’t started the online part yet but I’ll join up tonight.
I did like that one. But now my favorite is when I jump in to see him in bed spooning Floyd. I love how the apartment is getting more trashed.
I’ve joined the ‘Crew’ (PS3 deadfred77); hope you don’t mind. As I’m on UK time I’ll be waking up just as you get in from a hard night’s ‘gang-banging’ (I think that means something else over here, too…).
With reference to real life, both meanings hold true, but in the context of your sentence, I understand what you mean… unless… I’m pretty sure that you can’t do that in GTA:V, unless a new “Hot Coffee” comes out…
I logged on briefly last night but didn’t see a way to search for other crew members. I haven’t friended any Dopers, though.
Has anyone managed to crew it up at all?
Have signed up.
Handle is Cumbrian7 - am on PS3 (if that makes a difference) and am on UK time (again, if that makes a difference).
Yet to start online mode, as have been away on holiday - hopefully will be able to get involved by the weekend though. Looking forward to it.
So far my GTA Online experience has been humbling. I thought I was pretty good at driving but I keep coming in dead last, or close to it, in races.
And regular death match mode gets boring pretty quickly (it’s surprising how tiresome and unfulfilling non-stop senseless carnage can be) but I’ve never been much of a fan of that mode in any game.
Character skill plays into it a little bit, too. I lost a character that had really good driving stats, and started again and emphasized other stats, and the new character is a much worse driver, even in the same cars.
It’s not as noticeable for driving as it is for flying. Try handling a helicopter sometime without a decent flight skill; it’s nearly impossible.
Seriously. Steal a helicopter as Trevor, then steal one as Franklin (assuming he didn’t go to flight school in your game). It’s quite noticeable.
I’ve been playing around with Trevor’s new fighter jet. A few things I noticed: missiles and cannon fire appear to be endless. Missiles are guided or heat seeking or whatever; you can automatically lock onto to “hostile” targets and fire and forget. Just keep the target in your field of vision, and marked as a target with the reticule, or the missile might (probably will) miss.
Also, you cannot blow up commercial airplanes. You can target them, and launch missiles at them, but they will not die.
All those police and SWAT and so forth in helicopters and in cars and trucks? Fire at will. Muwhahahaha! Who knew Trevor had so much domestic terrorist in him?
In other news, I’ve been playing my online character (Zaparthes in the SDMB crew). You make the most money the fastest by doing job “jobs.” Races (unless you can reliably win, which I cannot) and Deathmatch are much slower. Jobs are also repeatable; if you get a good crew (the temporary kind) doing a job, you can repeat the job at will and earn $ rather quickly.
I’m not doing so well in races either - are my losses going to reflect badly on the Crew as a whole? I can’t imagine real-life gang-bangers worry about these things…
Nah. A lot of the people who are really good at races 1) played the online racing in GTA IV a lot, and 2) aren’t using the default game controller but rather gaming steering wheels and similar accoutrement.
I’ll probably have to demote you, or risk losing the respect of the rest of our cut-throat gang of murderers and layabouts.
One short question, how long is the main story? I just completed the missions where I
stole the nuke with the submarine and stole from the armored car fro the FIB and my save game already says 25%. I certainly don’t feel like I could be a quarter of the way through the game already. I’ve maybe explored half the map and I’ve only done a few side missions.