can they be alive Vito and Burke?.

[WJP-WajP]

in such a way that Vito he expanded the city? (Vito Ending)

[Jet City Gambler]

You can finish the game with all three of your underbosses alive. You'll get the ending for whichever one has the most territory, so if you want the Vito ending just give him an extra district.

[captainpatch]

In order to "give Vito an extra district", one of the other underbosses has to end up with fewer districts than the other two. To be precise, giving him a fourth district means that either Burke or Cassandra would only have 3 and whichever underboss didn't get 3 will have only 2.

4-3-2 -- Doesn't that lead to A LOT of bickering? Whoever the 2 is will most likely be VERY rebellious. Maybe even the 3 underboss will also not be too happy. That makes Donovan's advice at the end VERY important: "Those scumbags you've been working with, kill them all. Do it before they decide to do you."

When Lincoln finishes with Marcano, Father James wants him tojust walk away. Head out to California and take that job in the shipyards. If Lincoln does NOT take that advice, he must then decide to A) rule alone, or B) share power with the underbosses.

I have ALWAYS decided to share power. Further, I have ALWAYS made sure that each underboss had as many districts as the other two. "Fair and equitable", that's me. So I have no idea what happens if Lincoln DOES play favorites. Doing that always struck me as a formula for disaster.

[WillieSea]

Underbosses can rebel, but considering what Mr Clay has done already, they are easily quelled.

If you decide to kill all the underbosses, you are in for a surprise! Don't say I didn't warn you.

Decide who to give districts to based on the 'perks' you get from them. I like Cassandra for the weapon upgrades. Vito gives good health upgrades and a nice rifle. I never really saw much use for Burke.

[captainpatch]

The perks I valued most were from Vito: access to his Consigliere (who I refer to as my Banker or "mobile ATM"). Being able to hand off cash instead of running off the Sammy's basement every 20 minutes -- or worse, keeping it on your person -- made life MUCH easier for Lincoln. And Burke is where get access to a fleet of personal cars that you can summon most anywhere. If you plan on doing the racing circuit introduced in Faster, Baby!, that access is a must. It's nearly impossible to win all ten races without modifying (Rick's Body Shops) some of your car fleet vehicles.

The highest level perks -- the ones you get by giving an underboss a fourth or fifth district seemed kind of unnecessary to me. They can make winning easier, but not really required to succeed.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by captainpatch:

...The highest level perks -- the ones you get by giving an underboss a fourth or fifth district seemed kind of unnecessary to me. They can make winning easier, but not really required to succeed.

I agree. And since these perks are only available at the 'end' of the game, the perks are almost useless since the game is almost over at that point, so most of your game playing will be without those perks.

[Jet City Gambler]

You can do a 4-3-2 split and still keep all your underbosses loyal. In my experience, it's the time between awarding districts that gets them agitated. Give three in a row to Vito and the other two will almost certainly rebel.

For example, you can go Cassandra-Vito-Burke-Cassandra-Vito-Burke-Cassandra-Vito-Vito and everyone will still be with you at the end. Do the side missions, of course, that increases their loyalty.

During the sitdown if someone says something like "The next one better come my way" you know they're getting irritated. As long as you space them out it should be fine.

[captainpatch]

I wondered about that. I suspected that doing the side missions could offset the district shortage irritation.

Something else I've wondered about: Whenever you assign a racket to an underboss, you can immediately perform an additional side mission for that underboss. (I'm pretty sure that's correct.) HOWEVER, after having assigned a racket to Underboss A, and the second racket to Underboss B, After assigning those two rackets, you could therefore do a side mission for A and another for B. BUT THEN you can subsequently assign the district to Underboss C. Does it follow that you could then perform two ADDITIONAL side missions for Underboss C? That would mean that those two rackets would then have had TWO side missions steered their way.

[WillieSea]

Wouldn't that make Underboss A and B mad that you took districts away from them, offsetting any gains?

No idea how extensive the system works in the game.

[Racuch Zawodowiec]

They can all have 3 districts, but some of them are earning more money than the others, it's the amount of money they earn total that matters.

[captainpatch]

The "taking away" aspect gets offset by the fact that later it will be _them_ that are the beneficiaries of a racket swap. That is, right now you may have taken a racket from Burke and given it to Vito. But eventually, if you stick to the pattern, you WILL be taking a racket from Vito and be giving it to Burke. It all balances out in the end.

[Gringinkol]

Alright so I want vito to have 4, Burke 3 and Cassandra 2. What order should I choose Underbosses and which District for each Underboss

[JuiceWSA]

I split everything evenly and push Vito up through Downtown first to gain the Consigliere/Inside Man perks first (I can halt before teaching Tony to fly - the perks have already arrived at that point - Cassandra/Burke can come along later at a more leisurely pace, but that's just how I play.

The Big Machine Gun you get for Vito and giving him 4 districts is noisy, but a good pistol does more damage. I found the upper tiers for any of them... Meh... I never really had a need to steal an occupied car silently - or whatever that is that Cassandra does.

[captainpatch]

Originally posted by Mysteri Boi:

Alright so I want vito to have 4, Burke 3 and Cassandra 2. What order should I choose Underbosses and which District for each Underboss

I've never experienced a rebellion in the ranks -- I _always_ divvy up evenly -- but I would think that a 4/3/2 would assure that the 2 would rebel.

IF it's possible to get the 2 NOT to rebel, I think you would have to give that 2 underboss the second district FIRST. (But expect trouble when you run out of districts to hand out.)

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by captainpatch:

I've never experienced a rebellion in the ranks -- I _always_ divvy up evenly

Me either - and I do the same.

I did take a district away from Vito once - when I gave him a racket by mistake in what became Cassandra's District. All evened up later tho.

Mysteri Boi can let us know what happens.

[Gringinkol]

Originally posted by Jet City Gambler:

You can do a 4-3-2 split and still keep all your underbosses loyal. In my experience, it's the time between awarding districts that gets them agitated. Give three in a row to Vito and the other two will almost certainly rebel.

For example, you can go Cassandra-Vito-Burke-Cassandra-Vito-Burke-Cassandra-Vito-Vito and everyone will still be with you at the end. Do the side missions, of course, that increases their loyalty.

During the sitdown if someone says something like "The next one better come my way" you know they're getting irritated. As long as you space them out it should be fine.

What order should I do if I want 4 for Vito, 3 for Burke and 2 for Cassandra?
Edit: I think you can go like this:
Burke-Vito-Cassandra-Burke-Vito-Cassandra-Burke-Vito-Vito