If you really want to game the system, save the game, then bet everything you have at an "Inside Track" betting shop.If you've managed to collect a nice little arsenal, consider reloading to save yourself the cost and trouble of acquiring your guns again. Another hidden cost of getting wasted or busted is the loss of all your weapons. If you save regularly, you can just reload the game instead and avoid the costly medical bills, although they aren't really that high. Getting busted or wasted will cost you money.You can also use sniper bullets to waste them from a distance. They tend to be short-tempered and well-armed, but if you snag a heavy vehicle like a semi-truck and flatten them, they won't have much of a chance to fight back. Drug dealers not only grant you respect when killed they're also a great source of money.Eventually, CJ can purchase businesses to provide him with regular income, but until that point, saving your money whenever you can afford to will grant you significant advantages later. Missions provide a good amount, of course citizens can also be killed for their cash. Fairly early on in the game, it's possible to start making a decent amount of money if you put your mind to it. Killing your own gang members, or letting them die, reduces respect. Killing drug dealers, police officers, and members of rival gangs grants slight increases to respect.
Tagging over another gang's graffiti grants a small increase. Conquering another gang's territory and annexing it (by starting and winning a gang war, which essentially involves killing a whole bunch of gang members) will raise CJ's respect by a whole bunch (about 30%).You can also increase respect passively by making sure CJ wears green, the color of his gang, whenever he's inside Grove Street Families territory. Respect is gained in the normal course of the game by completing certain missions.Having a posse alongside you can make many missions significantly easier than they would be otherwise, so it pays to build a lot of respect. The higher your respect level, the more members of the Grove Street Families gang you can recruit to help you with missions. Respect is another stat that can be raised in GTA San Andreas, but unlike most of the stats listed above, it's next to impossible to raise it significantly from the beginning of the game. Try shooting from nearby a save point or change of clothes, both of which will reduce your wanted level when used. It can be difficult to safely train CJ's weapon skills, since shooting people will get you into trouble with the police in short order, and shooting vehicles only counts until the vehicles are destroyed (at which point they explode).CJ will deal more damage with a melee weapon if his muscle mass is high. These include thrown weapons like grenades, sniper rifles, all melee weapons (baseball bats, spades, etc.), and all heavy weapons, such as the rocket launcher. Weapon skills are trained by shooting people or vehicles, and range from “Poor” to “Hitman.” At the Hitman level, CJ can dual wield some weapons, including sawn-off shotguns, pistols, and machine pistols (the Micro-Uzi and the Tec-9). CJ's weapon skills are trainable just like his vehicle skills unfortunately, as opposed to those, there's a separate skill gauge for nearly every individual weapon. If you're practically out of fat, eat anything else to gain it back (up to 3% per meal), then work it back down to around 5% before each mission.īecome a weapons master. Whenever you eat, if your body fat is above about 3%, order a salad, as it's the only food that doesn't add fat. Eating most foods will cause CJ to gain some fat, but food is also very important to building stamina and muscle mass. Don't forget to eat properly as you train.Lung capacity isn't exceptionally useful except in a few scenarios. Finding oysters on the ocean floor also has a minor effect on it, and after collecting all fifty hidden oysters, lung capacity is removed altogether and you can stay underwater for as long as you wish. Lung capacity can be trained by swimming underwater until the last second and then resurfacing for air. You may also want to build up CJ's lung capacity, allowing him to stay underwater for longer periods of time.Body fat can be lowered to about 5% with no ill effects get rid of it completely, and CJ may lose muscle mass during strenuous physical activity. You're aiming for a rating of around 75-85% to maximize physical strength without sacrificing speed or agility. To build muscle mass, lift weights at the gym. In addition to stamina, CJ has muscle mass and body fat whose percentages can be altered by working out.