Fastest Way to Earn Money?

[Yeazt]

Okay so this my first time playing any Rockstar game and holy **** are they fun. 

 

I was in Valentine for some reason and this prostitute asks me for help, wanting some ho or points/money I agreed. She wanted me to dispose of a body into a pig pen, weird and risky but it was night time and I really needed the money. So I pick the dead body up, go to the pig pen and leave the gate open (which is dumb of me); one of the ****ing pig escapes and decided to catch him after u drop the body in the pen. I lasso the pig and some bitch reports that as a crime - so I shoot him. Now some other dude saw me shoot him and runs off to the sherif and soon enough like the whole ****ing police department is after me, I kill like 6 of the ****ing officers and then die giving me a $300 bounty. Which ****ing sucks because I only have $150 and was wanting to save up to pimp our my horse. 

 

So I’m just exploring parts of the map near black water and some O’driscols are robbing a stagecoach, I intervene and save the dude and he says I can loot the stagecoach and take it with me (which I do) as I’m taking the stagecoach back to Horseshoe overlook I get jumped by O’driscols or bounty hunters I don’t remember and I die. I come back and I see that the stagecoach is parked next to the other horses and decided to sell it later, once I come back it’s gone.

 

So now I get jumped by bounty hunters frequently and the whole town of Valentine like hates me. So my questions are: if I pay off my bounty do the people like me again and how can I make money fast (in a legal way but I’m okay to do some illegal sh*t)

[GarthAlgar]

A quick $ grab method are the treasure maps. They don't involve any combat or law breaking. Start with the Jack Hill Gang map ( eventually you'll find gold bars worth $1000 ) or the Poisonous Trail map which results in more gold bars.

If you did the stranger mission "all that glitters" then you have the first jack hill gang map.

[rick249kdr]

Stop shooting people in towns. 

If you want to avoid high bounties and keep your money, avoid weapons in town completely. Especially against lawmen.

Surrender at every opportunity. Spend a couple nights in jail and you only pay 80% of the bounty! 

Best advice I can give is don't treat this as a shooter. Trying to shoot your way out of situations will always result in high bounties and/or death, which also costs you. 

Play it straight and you should accumulate cash pretty quick. 

[HuDawg]

I actually enjoyed reading the OP story about what happened to him...lol