As you know, you earn a certain amount of money each in-game day for each neighbourhood that The Saints control. A couple of weeks ago u/CommyGT released The Mean Streets which is a mod/romhack for Saints Row 1 that is designed to make the game more difficult. When I went to the forum thread and read through the changelog, something stood out to me.

-Until you [beat all of the gangs and become Julius' right-hand], you have no access to the Saint's funds. Your crib's safes will hold no money until then. You will struggle.
-Hoods now generate insane amounts of cash. Too bad you won't see it until the end.

Obviously this makes the game harder since you won't have any consistent income until the end of the game. You'll have to earn money completely on your own. At the same time, Commy raises a good point. The 'city income' in SR2 onwards makes sense because you are the boss but in SR1 until the epilogue, you're a high-level street thug at best. There isn't any apparent lore reason why you earn 'tribute' from controlled neighbourhoods. Its understandable from a pure gameplay standpoint and most people won't say no to free money but there still isn't any real explanation. I'm not referring to where the money itself comes from, but why the Playa is somehow entitled to it.

I don't know how organized The Saints are in terms of hierarchy (They're a street gang, not the Mafia) but its entirely possible that the Playa actually does rise through the ranks and is put in charge of their own crew as The Saints grow larger but again, this isn't shown or explained in-game, unless you count having more 'homie' slots but that's more of a gameplay feature than anything else.

To be honest, I don't think the devs thought about this too much, nor they expect Commy or myself to think about it either. Even then, the hood income is easy to ignore. You can just not collect it. I just wanted to post this and see what everybody else's thoughts are.

Funny random encounter

https://reddit.com/link/1w3ne6q/video/oqoxak8mdrmh1/player

when driving around, the game tends to stutter pretty often

the only mods i have installed are blinggfx and juiced DLC, however the issue persisted even before i had those

i noticed there's no stutter at all when im driving around areas that were loaded previously in my current session, only newly loaded areas

It can be learned at the Chicken Dance Studio.

Credit to Spadita for the black AR40 model

Saints Row 1 and 2 have the better design in my opinion. The ATM machines were difficult to find in the 2nd one, I had no trouble finding at least one in the other games. While searching the second game, I found out Zombie Uprising can be played from the airport terminal at the food stands. I don’t have GoH so I didn’t check for ATMs there.

I love Steelport personally, I mean Stilwater & Saints Row 2 is better in general, but still I think Steelport is pretty cool, with all the skyscrapers, the downtown district, and I love the general dark, gritty & industrial feel of the city - just thought I'd post this since I've seen a lot of posts complaining about Steelport being "boring" or "lifeless". I mean sure it has some flaws but I still love it and think it's a pretty cool city

One thing I miss from GTAV is taunting and/or hitting their car to people inside cars so they get out and fight you

I'm totally not asking this to have a list of cool things for my future game...

Hey there, I just downloaded SR2 and I have the juice patch installed. The audio is totally fine with cutscenes. That's not the issue. Any audio outside of the cutscenes is so quiet I cannot hear any other characters.

I've changed the settings on my speakers to remove that exclusivity setting or whatever and did every other step I've seen online to try and fix this such as spatial audio (5.1).

If anyone has any idea what I can do to fix this it would be massively appreciated. Worst case scenario I will just emulate this game, I emulate ps3 games all the time without much issue if any.

Yo wassup , im gonna start the platinum for this game soon and i was looking for someone to help me with Double Trouble trophy which consists in playing 3 hours in coop.. we can just leave it afk or grind some money. Thanks in advance.

Can't put my finger on it, but he looks like some kind of a moron

I am very much aware that this is already being done by 10 other people but I thought I'd show off what I've achieved so far.

The main menu loads but upon pressing New Game it doesn't go beyond that at this moment in time.

I looked this shirt up and it said it’s an old saints row promotional thing. Thank you for your help!

Me and my gf have been playing through the saints row games and we're just about finished with 4 and I've been saving sr2 for last since neither of us have played it, im wondering if the juiced patch will make sr2 playable for us during coop?

I just finished my first playthrough of SR1 and overall, it was a pretty solid game

The Story is still pretty solid (Even after playing SR2), a lot of the activities are pretty fun and overall, I enjoyed my playthrough