How to deal with Rival gangs without losing the "Dividends of Peace" goal?

[StudlyCaps]

Even if there is only one member in a gang, killing them immediately fails the goal. Sometimes rivals just go to war on you for no reason except that you're nearby, so is there any way to actually deal with them without failing?

[batteyhead]

I think you just have to beat them into submission without killing them, pay them money for truces, and control their spread by closing down their fronts. Not ideal

[StudlyCaps]

Thanks, a bit unfortunate.

Also, since I first posted I have found that you don't lose the goal if you kill an enemy in self-defence, so luring them into a losing fight can work too.

[Robin Banks]

I still wonder how to deal with them. They can suggest a cease fire, I can't - at least I didn't figure how it works yet.

[Lt.Stock]

Remember that the game tracks if you are the aggressor or not. So defensive attacks that puts their muscle in the morgue doesn't cause them to start a Vendetta since they know they started fight.

Being aggressive in your asset accrual is fine and you can throw a couple of punches or put someone in the hospital, but killing them on purpose isnt.

[Coach]

I wish there were more ways to deal with the AI. They just seem so predictable and one dimensional. They lack character and personality. Basically every AI faction is exactly the same. I also wish the AI factions would have a preference to recruit exclusively people from their ethnicity. Like having an AI faction run by an Italian crew, or Irish, instead of having completely mixed crews. My feedback would be:
- make AI faction more interesting to deal with, give them a personality, give us a range of options to deal with them: The better our relationship the more options we have with them, things like trade deals, exchanging things, buying their influence, so we can put other politicians and officials in our pocket (like the Corlones used to do with the rival families)...etc
- make AI factions have a preference of recruits of same ethnicities
- add more newspaper headlines, not just same old this guy got killed, that guy got killed
- Give us the option to automate paying bribery to cops (tedious and repetitive)
- Give us the option to automate collecting gambling debts or dealing with those debtors automatically through the manager in the gambling den
- give us option to heal automatically whenever our guy gets hit by a rival gang member

These changes would make me happy :)

[ItsPaganTime]

12 of 12 legacy goals basically impossible. i spent a couple hours researching on how to do that and no luck... 11 of 12 aint bad