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Respect	Members
1%	2
10%	3
20%	4
40%	5
60%	6
80%	7

You can get gang members for your crew. The more respect you have, the more gang members you can have.

[edit] Total Respect

Your total respect is calculated as follows:

• Running Respect: 40%
• Mission advancement: 36%
• Territories owned: 6%
• Amount of money: 6%
• Muscle (physical fitness): 4%
• Progress with girlfriend: 4%
• Appearance: 4%

[edit] Running Respect

Running respect is everything you do in general, which is amounted as thus:

• Killing a drug dealer: +.005%
• Killing a rival gang member: +.5%
• Killing one of your gang members: –.0005%
• One of your gang members dies: –2%
• Territories won: +30% (a major part of the Los Santos section of the game)
• Territories lost: –3%