Is it possible to reduce gang density?

[HalfOfAKebab]

I'm aware of the method of increasing density in a zone, but is there a way to reduce it?

[OrionSR]

Yes, but it's awkward to reduce Grove density. Reducing rival gang (Ballas and Vagos) density is easy enough. Each wave of a gang war will award about one third of their density to Grove, with all remaining density awarded after the third wave. "About one third," so it might be difficult to make precise calculations. You can reduce the density of non-rival gangs (Aztecas, etc.) by increasing the density of a rival gang beyond that of the non-rival and starting a gang war. Grove should earn density from any every gang in that zone. But then, what to do with all that Grove density.

 

To reduce Grove density you need to roll over the byte that stores these variables beyond 255; add one more and density will roll over to 0. If you are playing on PC or Android, where it's easy enough to view your zone densities, you might be able to completely empty a zone of all gang density. Otherwise... What exactly are you trying to do? Did I read you played on X360? Do you have a way to view your saves?

[HalfOfAKebab]

What exactly are you trying to do? Did I read you played on X360? Do you have a way to view your saves?

I'm not planning on doing anything specifically. I'm thinking about getting really high densities in a lot of my Grove territories, but I want to make sure I'm not burning any bridges by having them really high should I ever decide that there's too many Grove members and not enough innocent civilians to prey on .

 

I'm playing on PC and PS2. I don't want to view my saves, because I feel like I might as well mod the game if I use an external tool to find out information about my saves .