I started a play through where the plan was to do some training on each of my random slaves before I sold them to increase their sale value, mostly just reducing them to negative willpower. That did seem to significantly increase the sale value of the first slave I did that with. I reduced her willpower to -15 before I sold her and got almost $5k for her at auction. I think the instant sale price was less than $1000.
The problem I'm running into is that if I capture random females as often as they appear, I don't have time to train them before I sell them. By the end of month 2 I have only managed to get 1 slave to negative willpower and sell her so far. I have 5 randoms added to my house, some with respect, some not. And I have 4 more female slaves unprocessed but captured waiting for a spot to open up. 3 spots are taken by Rebecca, Mai Lynn, and Caitlyn.
Are people able to keep up with the flow of randoms if you capture all of them as soon as they appear? Or do you just accept that early on you're going to have to sell some of them without training?
This is the first game I've tried to really focus on it. I suspect it will get easier as my skills go up but early on I felt it necessary to spend a significant amount of time upgrading my house and training stamina up around 100. My starting charm and manipulation are both 45. I also took the academy class that gives you Daria's Gift. All but 2 of the randoms I captured started with more than 80 willpower and despised me. 1 of them started with less than 10 willpower and is the only one I've actually sold so far. 1 of them started with about 20 willpower and she's down at about 0 now so I'm making progress on her.
Maybe I should have waited a bit on buying Caitlyn and Mai Lynn until I made better progress with the randoms, not sure.