Every time I've gotten a chance lately, I've looked over the web for info on this game, found some guides, emailed some people only to have emails bounce, and never found anything that even mentions the problem I'm having other than an unanswered gamefaqs question.

Here's the problem. My hoods are deserting me and i have no idea how to prevent it.

My first thought was "raise their pay." So even though raising the pay of 60 hoods one at a time was tedious, I did so anyway, and made sure one guy's pay was maxed out at 999 so he for sure wouldn't leave. The next week, I look at my gang loyalty, ad it STILL went down. Not only that, but mister 999 left me too.

My second idea was "make an example of them." I looked at the list of deserters and picked out a few names, and located them on the unattached gangsters list. I chose a team to carry out the hits, but when I clicked on the "kill" order, the unattached gangsters list was no longer selectable. It is impossible to select them for ANY order.

So my only other option was to recruit, recruit, and keep recruiting. I tried playing like this for awhile, annoying as it was, and eventually, they started stealing money from me. It got so bad I absolutely could not progress any further. HELP!!!