Associates

Overview

Associates are tied to your underbosses and each of them provides much needed backup services that will help you in your various tasks. There are associates that provide their services free of charge while the others require a considerable amount of money as payment, in exchange for more risky and high-end services. These services are also further improved when you increase the earnings of the underboss they're associated with. You can access the associates in your weapon wheel. For more details for each associate, refer to the individual list of favors per underboss as listed in this section.

Markers

Markers are used to pay for the premium associate services. You'll get markers by completing story missions, giving your underbosses rackets, and completing optional missions. You can only use markers given by the underboss to avail the service of his/her associate. That means you can't use a blue (Vito) marker to pay for Cassandra's Operator associate. If you don't have enough markers, you can still avail the premium associates by paying them with cash. They're quite pricey especially when they're leveled up so use them sparingly.