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Sleeping on the floor also raises taming. Trade a bit of energy for quicker obedience.Despair is bad, but isn't as bad as spoiling, because its pretty easy to get rid of. I rarely ever have a slave that isn't at least on despair 2 on the early parts, because you'd want her fear up at least by 2 rather quickly so she'll at least be workable. Just gift her the blanket, go on dates, spring baths etc. Usually by the time I get them to D+ the despairs long gone.
Spoiling requires me to put her in the dungeon, and sleeping on the floor reduces stam, so its technically worse than despair.
You can use violence, sometimes with certain slaves its nearly unavoidable, but never go beyond necessary, and certainly never above the guilt meter. The key is to raise their fear so they're at least workable, no further than that.
I should perhaps mention that Im doing all this because in this game you're sort of pushed to get results quickly. You can grind your slave slowly so you dont ever need to raise her fear at all, but the game is pretty harsh in that if youre too slow you'll lose more money than you get off your slave. For me, they'd have to be D- within 3 days, or Id consider it a failure.
3 days to D- isn't always possible. It's not necessary to rush through the disobedience phase, because there are many ways to accelerate training later.