How to Start and Complete Ventures in Saints Row: Santo Ileso Exploration 2

Ventures are marked on your map by purple diamonds. These activities are tied to the advancement of related criminal Ventures.

After completing Observe and Report, the A Piece of the Action mission unlocks the JimRob’s Venture. This Venture earns you an hourly income and tasks you with completing Venture activities across Santo Ileso.

Complete the Mission Networking to unlock the [Empire Board]. This allows you to place Ventures in various districts of Santo Ileso.

Seeding a Venture costs cash; early Ventures cost $30,000 to establish. This is followed by a cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) introducing the Venture and spawning Venture activities and Threats in the region.

You must establish one new Venture to complete Networking. Other missions may require establishing new Ventures as prerequisites, such as Eli’s Mission [Rod Warrior] requiring the establishment of [Castle Kraken].

New Ventures are unlocked as you complete Missions and increase your Empire Tier.

To increase your Empire Tier, you must establish and complete Ventures. A mission will then become available that, if completed, increases your Empire Tier.

The Missions that increase your Empire Tier and their unlock requirements are:

• Empire Tier 1: Networking (No requirements)

Empire Tier 2: Drawing Heat (Place 3 Criminal Ventures)

Empire Tier 3: Body of Evidence (Place 6 Criminal Ventures, Complete 2 Criminal Ventures)

Empire Tier 4: Good Cop/Bad Cop (Place 8 Criminal Ventures, Complete 5 Criminal Ventures)

Once a Venture is established, complete its associated Venture activities. The type of activity varies by Venture.

Examples of Venture activities include:

• Vehicle Theft (JimRob’s Garage): Steal a specific vehicle requested by JR. The vehicle may be guarded by enemies. After stealing it, you will likely gain Notoriety from the relevant faction. Fend off enemy pursuit and return the vehicle to JimRob’s.

[Insurance Fraud (Shady Oaks)]: Become virtually immune to damage and prone to rag-dolling. Run into traffic and press the rag-doll button before impact. Earn a target amount of money by getting hit by multiple cars before time expires.

[Food Truck Kingpin (Chalupacabra)]: Locate shady “food” trucks, kill their guardians, hijack the vehicle, and drive it to the Chalupacabra site while fending off hostile pursuit.

[Toxic Delivery (Bright Future)]: Locate a flatbed truck carrying volatile, toxic chemicals (follow glowing green toxic goo). Drive it carefully to avoid upsetting the barrels, or drive quickly to reach the dump site before the barrels erupt.

Completing all Venture activities for a specific Venture marks the region as Saints territory and doubles the passive income from that Venture. Clearing all Threats in the region further increases income.

JimRob’s starts at $1,000/hour, increasing to $2,000/hour upon completing all activities, and potentially $3,000/hour after clearing all Threats.

Tier 1 Ventures earn $1,250/hour base, Tier 2 earn $15,000/hour, and Tier 3 earn $46,000/hour.

Some Ventures have associated Challenges that may become impossible to complete if you underperform during Venture activities. For example, [Toxic Delivery] activities have the [Bright Future] Challenge requiring a perfect toxic barrel delivery and delivering 60 toxic barrels.