[[[THIS GUIDE IS FOR STATIONMASTER 0.16]]] ==CONTROLS== Most of the actions you will do will be done with the mouse. WASD, or moving your mouse the the edge of the screen, will pan the camera around the station. Middle mouse button + Q/E will rotate furniture/items/rooms. ESC will bring up the menu, where you can save, load, quit, go to the help section, or go to the settings. Right mouse botton will cancel the current build option, whether it be a room or furniture. ==DESCRIPTIONS OF ROOMS AND BUILD MENU== The 4 arrow symbol: this is the delete tool. if the area you selected has furniture in it, it shall delete that furniture first; if not, it will delete the area of the room selected Hallway: As of the time of writing this (version 0.16) these dont serve much use other than to increace the appeal of your station. Slave Sleeping Quarters: This is where your slaves that are not in your suite or perma-restrained will sleep. You can also build a few things to help with slave modifications, pregnancy, etc. here. Brothel: this is where you send your slaves to earn cash — disobedient slaves go to the arcades, obedient ones go to private rooms. Port: this is where people enter and leave your station. Apartments: This is where your civilians live. Hotel: This is where tourists stay. Bar: This is where civilians and tourists relax for bit; you can earn some small change here. Dairy: This is where you extract milk from your slaves. This can be a real cash cow but not for early game. Suite: This is where you will oversee your empire and where your personal harem of slaves stay and entertain you. Slaves can dance, have orgies, or be pets here — or even be broken. Military Base: This is where your fleet shall be stationed. Build ships here to increace the power of your forces. Spa: Send disobedient slaves here to increase obidience and reduce fear. Arena: This is where you can send slaves to fight: non-lethal, lethal, or xeno (alien fights). You earn money by letting tourists and civilians watch. Porn Studio: Send slaves here to give you income from making pr0n films. Education Room: Train your slaves so that they can do certain jobs better and be worth more. ==TIPS== To create rooms, select the room type you want to build, then click and drag. If you click inside the room, the menu panel (where you chose the room) will change to show you the furniture you can place in that room. There is path-finding, but the NPCs will teleport if they can't find a path to their destination. Civilians will only pay for the tier of house they can afford, e.g. poor civilians will only go into poor apartments, rich -> rich, midle class -> middle class. Tourists, however, will go to the cheapest hotel room there is; if there are only rich-tier hotels then they won't stay unless they are rich. Also, the box rooms will reduce your reputaion. ==HOW TO START== I would start with a 4x16 block of slave sleeping quarters, and place 4 sleeping pods. Then make a brothel and place 4 private rooms (the cheap ones, not the expensive kind). Then make a bar, and place up to 50 of the cheapest stands, it will be fien if you only do 25 but you will need to build more. It's quite posible you are going to need more but you will get money for that later. Next, make some apartments—about 10 should do for now. (I would change the visa settings so that it is 100 civilians and 0 tourists.) After that, click on the shopping trolly (shopping cart) icon in the top left, and find and buy 4 mostly-obedient or obedient slaves. I would recommend the used slave auction. Assign them all to the brothel. If you get an event saying "slave idle", click on the upper body image in the top left, then find the slaves with the lowest obedience and have sex with them until they are 55+ obedience. Then make a port and place 2 portals, or 1 if that's all you have money for. if you need to delete a apartment or a few stands then that is fine. After that is basically maintaining a decent ratio of slaves and entertainment for your tourists and civilians, building more brothel rooms, etc. When you are getting somewhere in the realm of 100K every 10-30 seconds, then you should start to build up your military. Start with basic drones and then go from there. Some planetary bodies are easy to deal with, others not so much. If you select a planet, asteroid, or station on the galaxy map, you will see a % chance to raid (take some slaves and cash) or to conquer (make it yours). My advice is to look for a system that isn't occupied by another faction, or your starting system, simply because they are easiest to take control of. DO NOT ATTACK ANY OTHER FACTION OR YOU WILL GET STOMPED LIKE CRAZY. Unless you can fork out the 900K+ per planetary body for defence and prosperity as a priority. As much as you might think you're gonna be a galactic lord and get lots of cash from this, that isn't the case. You will, however, get slaves for free, and you can train them to be good earners. The majority of your cash will be from the station things, such as the brothel, hotels, apartments, and the dairy. This may change in the future when you can afford to upgrade all your planets or most of them — then you might be able to go toe-to-toe with another power. Other than what I have listed above, there isn't much of a guide that is required. Play how you want to play. Have fun :)