Okay, this may seem silly but unless you have played the game already or had a real-life relationship with someone OR had a FaceBook account, the game mechanics will seem tricky. Even then, you might still be confused. This guide is here to help.

Check the following thread to see achievement unlock criteria. Hopefully it will continue to be updated!!!
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/247870/discussions/0/648811852411278551/

I have listed some specific romantic activities to help boost your love life and keep your partner interested in you. They are in the "Maintenance" section. If the specifics of the event match a person's interests, they can easily be used to start a relationship!
As time goes by I will try and add screenshots to the specific activities for clarity.

Bear in mind there are specific achievements and in-game events that require you to be in a relationship and with high-status characters. I don't have much advice for those situations as their respect meter is slow to rise and they can be very fickle, changing hobbies faster than you possibly can!!!

The following are some suggestions on how to start, maintain, and end a relationship in the game.

Okay, first of all you need a relationship to maintain. Try not to irritate people and climb too far up the social and professional ladder, or you probably won't have those people to choose from.

Starter tips:

• Lower your "Away" missions and peoples' fickleness to the minimum. I want to say "play on Endless Mode" but it requires an extreme amount of time to playtest achievement unlocking. I haven't seen any warnings on no achievements unlocking on Endless...but still, check the discussion board. Play on Endless at your own discretion!!!
  
  
• Be positive and outgoing! Be flexible! Take care of your HP meter / health! Being depressed does not earn you brownie points!!! Sometimes you have to sacrifice your higher education to maintain everything else!
  
  
• I don't think you can be in a ROMANTIC relationship unless you are SpaceBook friends. Your reputation meter won't rise much more than around two thirds until you are friends
  
  
• People who do not list your gender on their "Interested in" space will never get into a relationship with you and almost never flirt back with you.
  
  
• People who you work with and never talk to will need to be invited to many events before even being interested in you. Be sure to cater to their hobbies! Always respond to messages and SEND them messages! Don't just write on their wall!
  
  
• People interested in one specific gender or "All" are equally hard to maintain relationships with in this game. You need to be sure you are active and aggressive about finding a partner. Sometimes someone will cheat on their partner and send you a relationship request....Ignoring a relationship request will not hurt your reputation. I recommend being negative (rude) to unwanted romantic advances!!!
  
  
• Be open about your gender or you will need to be more actively searching for a partner
  
  
• I don't suggest being interested in everyone though, as many of your spacebook friends will end up getting jealous of you and your group activities will flop - resulting in little stat gain!!!
  
  
• If you are going the schmoozing way, start building up your stats in certain areas of interest...by looking at the career tree. Flirt with the supervisors...or your current boss. Look at the job application requirements for the higher ranked jobs as a back-up plan....
  
  
• Beware, many high-profile characters will be fickle regardless of your start-up settings..They will change their main interests often. It's hard for YOU to do that considering it's a sort of percentage overall of what you spend your time doing. And just getting up to their rank you will need to do a lot of things, especially increasing your schmoozing skills for those high-rank jobs!!!
  
  
• To start making friends with high-profile people, start by viewing the "Check-in" tab. Click on the profiles of the people at the fancy bar/restaurant listed. Start interacting with them. When possible write on their walls, and remember: don't send requests unless you are near their rank and have similar interests.
  
  
• You need to be both lucky and diligent to work up your reputation with those people in order to even be friends with them, let alone maintain a relationship. Writing random positive messages on their wall helps. Don't invite them to events until you are friends, as they will not join unless their rank is at or below yours AND it will lower their respect for you!

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The last time I checked, Ambassadors are very hard to maintain a relationship with as they come and go often. When they do go, their profile is deactivated. Don't ask me for advice on this, as it takes an extremely long time in-game to even get to that point...I did manage to get into that position, but regardless of all the romantic dinners and stuff, they seem to go poof anyway..

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Trying to have a bite with your significant other will not work out as a group if they don't like a group activity member.

But most times to keep the quality-time requirement satisfied you shouldn't be inviting anyone else anyway!!! Just do the events for 2 or others will have the opportunity to be depressed about not being invited...

Key points:

• Always respond to your cupcake / hubby's / [insert term of endearment]'s messages
  
• Always flirt on their Spacebook profile before work (starve yourself and eat the basic 20-25 credit food from the store - not events page - after work)
  This is essential for killing time until the weekend!!! (see next suggestion)
  
• Always do romantic stuff on the weekend
  
• Always rotate which romantic events you do
  
• Never ignore an invite to an event that came from or includes your partner!!!
  
• Never flirt with other people!!!

An occasional event with others is fine, but watch out if your partner messages you that you aren't spending enough quality time with them...

Notable activities:
Always do activities for 2

• Recreational activities at the holo-theme park
  
• Dinner in quarters
  
• A walk on the holo-deck / park (?) [the one for 2 people]

For whatever reason you may want to end a relationship. You can't be a polygamist in here!

• If you want to start a new relationship, let your partner down easy. Simply always treat them well and dump them when they most respect you. They may nag you to "come back!!!" But if you don't want them, ignore the request. Their respect for you won't drop. NEVER ignore their messages, they will lose respect!!!
  
  
• If you want to be really (messed up) efficient, just don't make many spacebook friends in the first place and only start inviting non-friends to activities if you are interested in them. It's as shallow as a kiddie pool, but it works!!!
  
  
• To keep your friends happy just be objective and respond/reject friend requests.
  Future events will see non-attendance due to people disliking other attendees. Keep that in mind and get a partner with similar interests in the future.

Hopefully these tips give you insight on how to maintain relationships!!!
Remember, I didn't make this game, so I don't know everything about it, there's still much for myself to learn.
Take care!

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