Pacing?

[Superpower34]

Ao first game I decided to play as Capone. Aside from the bug on the mission to save Frankie,

I feel like game has pacing issues (but perhaps it's me)

I have almost 400 notoriety rating, and haven't really left my starting neighborhood yet. I've got 3 precincts and just started my 1st war vs a major gang.

Are you supposed to get noteworthy so quickly?


Also, is there a way to lure/hire gangster away from another faction?

 

[scarcrow303]

Ao first game I decided to play as Capone. Aside from the bug on the mission to save Frankie,

I feel like game has pacing issues (but perhaps it's me)

I have almost 400 notoriety rating, and haven't really left my starting neighborhood yet. I've got 3 precincts and just started my 1st war vs a major gang.

Are you supposed to get noteworthy so quickly?


Also, is there a way to lure/hire gangster away from another faction?

Yes becoming king of a neighborhood is all part of your climb to the top

 

[dconner]

The pacing does seem a little weird, as I typically spend a large portion of the game maxed out at 1,000 Notoriety, but with a bunch of powerful bosses still active.

Once you're in the endgame, there isn't really anything to do except invade a lot of neighborhoods to fight your more distant rivals, wait until you can buy them out, or some combination of the two.

As for hiring away gangsters, generally you can't, but transferring gangsters is an option you can suggest or offer in a sitdown negotiation. I try it once in a while just for the hell of it, and it almost always is rejected, until once I got surprised by someone giving me their single hired gangster at our "temporary business arrangement" meeting, which usually gets me at best a few dollars or barrels of swill.