User blog:Rechner2/Fast way to grind safes

Overview
In this blog post, I'll mention a few ways to grind cardboard and/or metal Safes easily (and, more importantly, fast). Aced ECM Overdrive makes some of this faster, but this isn't a requirement.

These methods rely on the fact that safes are added to your inventory as soon as you pick them up, unlike cash and XP which are added at the end of a heist.

As all of these methods are fairly quick, you won't have to worry about fighting any enemies.

If you don't know which safes I'm referring to, view this article.

Note: These methods will not get you any XP or cash, they are designed specifically to get safes.

Setup
All of the methods will be done on R&B Bank on, higher difficulties can be done as well but contracts for those are more expensive and as we won't be getting any money or XP, it's not worth it.

Important: Make sure that your lobby has restarting enabled, otherwise this won't work.

General Method
This method is a compromise between metal and cardboard safes, after doing this for half an hour I got 112 cardboard safes and 38 metal safes, with an average of 3.7 cardboard safes per minute and 1.3 metal safes per minute.

Steps:


 * 1) Mask up.
 * 2) Do something to raise the alarm, the best options are to break glass in front of a camera or to kill a civilian. (If your weapons aren't silenced, you can just shoot as well.)
 * 3) Get the safe on the desk near the entrance of the bank.
 * 4) Get the safe by the tellers.
 * 5) Go upstairs and get the safe near the stairs.
 * 6) Run to the vent entrance and get the cardboard safe on the right of it. By now the police should be alerted.
 * 7) Enter the vent system and collect the metal safe on the right.
 * 8) Drop down into the guards room and collect the safe there.
 * 9) Run outside the bank and go right to the fountain, collect the metal safe there.
 * 10) Run into the parking lot and collect the safe on the ground floor.
 * 11) Reset the mission and repeat from the start.

A few things to note:


 * Collecting the cardboard safe at the top of the parking lot is not advised as it takes quite some time to run up there.
 * Completing all the steps takes about one minute, depending on how fast you do everything.

Cardboard Optimised Method
This method focuses on cardboard safes, it is faster than the general method, taking about half a minute. After doing this for half an hour I got 153 cardboard safes with about 5.1 per minute.

Aced ECM Overdrive is advised for this one.

Steps:


 * 1) Mask up.
 * 2) Run inside the bank and collect the safe on the desk near the entrance.
 * 3) Collect the safe inside the tellers room.
 * 4) If you have ECM Overdrive aced, enter the guards room and collect the safe there, otherwise do something to raise the alarm.
 * 5) Proceed upstairs and collect the safe close to the stairs.
 * 6) Collect the safe near the vent entrance.
 * 7) If you have already collected the safe in the guards room, break one of the windows, jump out, and run to the parking lot.
 * 8) If you have not collected it yet, go back downstairs and enter the guards room (the alarm should be raised and the room should be open by now) and collect the safe in there, then run to the parking lot.
 * 9) Collect the safe on the ground floor.
 * 10) Reset the mission and repeat.

Metal Optimised Method
This method focuses on getting as many metal safes as possible, this is useful for getting diamond or infamous safes. After doing this for half an hour, I got 52 metal safes, with about 1.7 a minute.

Steps:


 * 1) Mask up.
 * 2) Run upstairs, enter the vent system and collect the metal safe.
 * 3) Backtrack out of the vents, jump out the window and run over to the fountain.
 * 4) Collect the metal safe there.
 * 5) Reset the mission and repeat.

Hope this helps some of you, if you have any suggestions on how to improve this, leave a comment or post on my message wall and I'll improve it.