Just a comment....
evileeyore may have played the whole game but he missed some things. He said " So I'm not sure this part of the game even works (the whole "they play tricks or act out" or whatever. They never do. "
take from me, they
do play dirty tricks on each other... I especially like the one where they leave Kara suspended in mid air during her shower.... and there are others...
If I missed things‡ it's because either it's too easy to keep people happy (frex the Pilot stayed at 7+ for most of the game, probably due to $$$$ because it certianly wasn't from the lack of attention the MC paid her under my control, I think she finally dropped to 4 or 5 right before the final end mission sequence) or it's so subtle I missed it. Since Tiffany and Pilot (and Kera and Tiffany, and basically Tiffany and anyone except Doctor) are snidding at each other before the game even begins, I just ignored any cattiness as being "background noise". But I never saw anything I'd call "pranks" or tricks"... but again, I kept earning from trades so aside from that first end of week where you don't have anything in the bank (I could have had a pay day if I'd have not followed your Walkthrough on that day, but I agree, it's better to do a trade on that day and have cargo rather than give the girls a payday), they were immediately earning $1k-2k+ and rapidly earning $10k-20k... so I may have broken their 'emotions' and papered over any 'desire to do pranks' with fat stacks of credits.
I will say one thing, the AVN just suddenly sending you to a different location for a main mission cut sequence and then dumping you straight into the Sunday evening payday scene... was annoying the couple of times it did it to me. So protip to anyone else,
Always Do A Trade And Fill Your Hold with a product, because deciding "Hmmm, I have 700k+*, it's Friday, let's head to [LOCATION] where I can really buy at low and resell elsewhere for huge gains..." and then instead going into a main mission sequence only to end up splitting that 700k with the crew and having 25k for trading†... yeah, that was annoying.
* I had almost 800k because the AVN had skipped two paydays in a row due to main mission interference, so the issue wasn't "has 700k+ and losing it", but that the main mission doesn't signal when it's going to cut in so on a Friday I didn't budget to to have a hold full of goods going into Sunday evening payday.
† I mean, the game also never has you needing to save up 200k+ in personal funds, so I did just transfer from MC's own pocket into the ship's purse to "jump start" the trade funds again, so it's not even a real setback. It was just a mild annoyance that was immediately mitigated because the MC's personal stash was overflowing. I think paying them out a percentage of the gain, rather than a percentage of the entire fund would be a better mechanic, but... it still works fine. Or rather the MC having to make the tough call as to how much they pay out, and having that impact their moods would be a better, but more complicated, mechanic.
‡ I did miss two sequences, and possibly a whole side mission (the other named bar mission - but that might have been a part of the end?), because they never got stars. There are a small number of "side scenes" that don't get stars at all (on the ship conversation scenes) and at least two "side sequences" with the Doctor that you have to notice their star goes from blue to silver, which I almost missed both times (it probably went silver for several days before I noticed because I was in the habit of just ignoring the Dr's star as I wanted nothing to do with her).
