GTA Online Guide: Your Ultimate Wiki and Walkthrough Resource

1. Play story before starting online. At least enough to get familiar with the map and basic game mechanics. Stealing a taxi and doing fares and stealing a helicopter is what i did to learn the map.

2. After the intro play online in invite only, alone or with friends, to learn the basics before entering a public lobby. Public lobbies have predictably high occurrences of random amounts of chaos.

3. Most of online is playable in a private lobby. Multiplayer races, survivals, and missions can be joined from a private lobby. Business stuff needing a public lobby can be done by tricking into a solo public lobby if desired. Also private lobbies have better frames rates, shorter loading, free of griefers, and free of modders/cheaters.

4. First thing for making money is to buy the cheapest office and become a CEO. Then take advantage of everthing that is free. Think before you spend for expensive vehicles and cloths. Buy the armored Kuruma before buying a super class car.

Sound advice from @NoCode23 here kids.

@NoCode23 5. Accept the fact that there are thousands of f****** w****** playing the game who you'll never be able to kill because they spend their life playing it. Definitely not from bitter experience.

@uptownsoul yes you pay an insurance fee. The cost depends on the upfront cost of the car up to $20,000 I believe. Also just crashing it you don’t have to pay anything. Only if you blow it up.