really wish someone would write a guide on what to do in the first 10 days. by day 11, I'm already struggling on money since it feels like the newer update is out to stop us and work against us
You can get help with a "getting started" section on the office computer (the question mark). I also found the following helpful....
- Your goal at first is to build up your bank and get the mission centre and a few girls' rooms built- rep will tank and hover around 1 or 2 for a while so don't stress about that.
-At first most of your income should be client rooms- you can ignore the lobby other than for xp at the start.
-Use the void gate to get 3 A girls. Whoever you like really, but I go for Miranda (org), Samus (org) and Triss (int). There's definitely better combos out there.
-Put those 3 to work in the client rooms if they're "fave girl" or meet a mastery. Otherwise they can do other tasks.
-Start building the mission centre and girls' rooms once you have the cash. Make sure you use someone with high intelligence as the lead builder to make it quicker.
-Don't get attached to your C listers, hopefully they'll be redundant once you start getting B listers. Just upgrade the org of 2 as cleaners. I think you need org of 4 to have the cleaning stay the same, 5 will progress it.
-Similarly, your B listers can only get to level 3 so most just need their energy upgraded to 20 (for client/bar/building duty). Prioritize your A listers as you'll end up with a backlog of potential upgrades.
-I also upgrade Samus and Miranda to 30 energy so they can run missions which will be important for cash during some of the story.
-Don't spend cash on gifts/dates/clothes until your cash flow is solid. You can max relationships with deep convos well enough.
-Eventually switch from chasing coin in the client rooms to meeting the stat needs. This will yield less coin but more rep. This may counterintuitively mean your specialized A listers will be less useful here than your rounded B listers.