Do the guild quests. For equipment and slave requests, check to see if you can buy an item or slave and sell them right away for a profit.
For the combat missions, the ones with the tent icon are easy fights (but watch out for rebels), but do the dungeons too. Don't be afraid to back out after a couple of fights at first, but do them anyway. You'll capture slaves in the dungeon that you can use to fill out your roster, or sell for gold. Look at getting five slaves fairly quickly. You can use them as canon fodder in the dungeon and set them to "service" when at home.
Do this and you shouldn't have too much difficulty meeting your loan repayments, but what you really want is to get all four guilds to 500 reputation - that will gt rid of the loan and you can really start to play.
Don't for get, you can use your dating options to keep slaves happy. Every time you raise their loyalty they gain loyalty points that can be used to buy perks for them. You'll need basic servitude (needed for almost anything!) dating, basic sex, and then look at the loyalty boosting perks. Get the Swear Loyalty perk and loyalty will stop decaying. You can also use some items (collars, cuffs and the like) to slow loyalty decay as well.
Speaking of equipment, make sure everyone takes advantage of armor, weapons and tools.
Once your finances are under control look at upgrading the mansion. You'll want to upgrade the room count early, but getting some production will help a lot.
Probably more, but that should get you started.
For the combat missions, the ones with the tent icon are easy fights (but watch out for rebels), but do the dungeons too. Don't be afraid to back out after a couple of fights at first, but do them anyway. You'll capture slaves in the dungeon that you can use to fill out your roster, or sell for gold. Look at getting five slaves fairly quickly. You can use them as canon fodder in the dungeon and set them to "service" when at home.
Do this and you shouldn't have too much difficulty meeting your loan repayments, but what you really want is to get all four guilds to 500 reputation - that will gt rid of the loan and you can really start to play.
Don't for get, you can use your dating options to keep slaves happy. Every time you raise their loyalty they gain loyalty points that can be used to buy perks for them. You'll need basic servitude (needed for almost anything!) dating, basic sex, and then look at the loyalty boosting perks. Get the Swear Loyalty perk and loyalty will stop decaying. You can also use some items (collars, cuffs and the like) to slow loyalty decay as well.
Speaking of equipment, make sure everyone takes advantage of armor, weapons and tools.
Once your finances are under control look at upgrading the mansion. You'll want to upgrade the room count early, but getting some production will help a lot.
Probably more, but that should get you started.