Both. It's expensive for sure. Early game you only need to give shooting training to one gang member to be the gunman for robberies. This same gang member can be used mid game to be assigned as a hitman and kill Mabuta. So early to mid game you only really need to do this for one gang member. The muscle job for the cartel is optional and requires a high boxing skill which takes a while.
Once you fully upgrade your first factory you'll have plenty of money to spend on guns. Until that point just train one gang member so you can do robberies.
depends on how you play!
my MC is a millionaire before i hire my 1st gang member!
you can actually play law abiding citizen and become a millionaire before the games 1 year turns!
i mean mostly the wealth will be either factories or stores but turning 50.000 a day or more!
fuck my last playthrough i had over 400 bitches and 100 gang members! plus 3-4 millions a day earnings!
and 700 millions in the bank account plus all the factories and stores and mansion and shit!
all my gang members were perfectly trained driven luxury cars and all the shebang!
should be around my 3rd or 4 year still trying to finish college and reach top boxing skills!
I agree with most of what you said so I'm not sure where the disconnect is. Evil 2 takes place in it's own unique world. It's often difficult to make players fully understand it but we do our best. There are usually good reasons why the game is set up the way it is but players don't always see it.
We can't however make a game that everyone likes (impossible). I'm sorry that we didn't meet your expectations.
i actually play it as an alternate reality!
its eastern europe if serfdom had never been abolished and evolved and thus we have a slavic culture of slavery! (IT'S IN THE FUCKING NAME FFS!)
however that culture is still controlled by the church and state and thus people can bind themselves into slavery but not be born into it!
thus why slaves need to sign contracts and why forcing people into slavery is such an ethical and moral problem,
since then you can get the church on your ass and thus give the state a reason to steal everything you have and treat you as a criminal!
Also helps to explain the amount of drugs and booze issues in the game!
and ofc why are all the girls white skinny and look fairly young!
i mean an husband can not sell their wife or children into slavery!
thus why the church although it does not appear much in the game still hold sway over the majority of the population,
1st it defends slavery against the "western" world view as a cultural thing!
at the same time prevents people from being morally abused by having children born to slaves or into slavery!
you could even post it as a world divide like the cold war on one side the "sea nations" and their anti slavery stance and the "continental nations!" as pro slavery!
its quite funny that slavery only became taboo in the western world when it turned racist,
and racism is only bad cause in spite of your race,
you can adopt a cultural religion and its wrong to discriminate against the believers!
Slavery as been banned in England since the 10th century,
they decided to adopt an anti slavery position cause Napoleon and the french revolution used slavery as both a weapon against the conservative world
and still used slaves in their colonies to produce sugar and feed the French war effort,
not that philosophically there was not a stand against slavery before,
or even theologians during the colonial time fighting against slavery!
Charles the V the hapsburg emperor banned slavery in the colonies
One of the greatest Portuguese preachers and scholarly priest was fiercely against slavery "Antonio Vieira!"
so slavery became taboo and and the abolishing of it became feasible cause it became useful to do so!
even in the USA and its story of slavery, it was extended for 40 more years cause the industrial revolution allowed for it to remain profitable!
cause allow me to elucidate people, the price of a slave was the price of what today would be the cost of an average house in the USA!
yeah paying 600.000 dollars for every "human worker" was not economically efficient.. go figure...
considering the worth of a wage was around 100 dollars a day back than (yeah money was worth more back then... inflation and shit... )
but in my version of history, being a slave owner was too much of a status symbol and therefore it never got banned in Eurasia
and thus the world is divided nowadays beteween slave nations and anti slave nations,
but even amongst the anti slave nations 80% have been "persuaded" by the united states and few atlantic nations who forced everyone they could to abolish,
But Russia was strong enough to tell them to fuck off, meanwhile India and China are officially anti slavery while still "allowing it due to cultural identity!"
but that's just me, and i am sort of weird so! you create your own history and reason why things are how they are in evil2´s world however its more fun for you!
To get my understanding on this i support it on Gugin books actually!
Cause Protestants abolished slavery, based on Catholic arguments, while the Orthodox´s defended it!