Kairosoft Game Guide and Walkthrough

General Hints
Try not to demolish scenic/environmental objects like flowers, snowmen or oases. They boost Attraction for your Resort Hotels, sometimes even more than flowers or a flowerbed.
Try to pace yourself between expanding the colony and inviting new residents. For a good part of the game, you won’t be able to get rid of trees and hills so you’re limited on space to place facilities. Once you get the Logging option, you can start clearing trees in the plains area, and can substantially increase the amount of space you have.
There’s a good chance you will uncover the Tentaclus race before the Planta race while exploring the snowfields. However, it’s recommended that you go to Planta first before Tentaclus, as the pirates on the Tentaclus planet are significantly harder than those on the Planta planet.
If you ever return to a planet to get a resident that you couldn’t get before, then just bring the cheapest resident that you can, as you will go back to the exact spot of that person, and once you invite them, you come right back, so it saves money.
If you click on a Resort Hotel on the map, you will see purple squares which indicate the range of how far the aliens can move when they leave it. Build processing plants or whatever you want outside of that range and they won’t mess up your production.
The number of stars listed when exploring a region is nearly always equal to the number of times you will need to renew your exploration budget to fully explore the area.

Bottomless Chasm
Generally speaking, all melee units are preferred in the Bottomless Chasm (with Drills/Force Sword and Powersuit 3), but ranged units should be put in the third row with the Sharpshooter Skill (with Multi-Bazooka and/or Plasma Rifle) .
Upon clearing floor 16, you will receive the Kairo Suit, which acts exactly the same as the Chimpan Z Suit, but with much more respectable defense. Upon clearing floor 17, you will receive the Fast Button, which allows you to go through all battles in the Bottomless Chasm in fast mode. Upon reaching floor 40 in the bottomless chasm, you will receive a “Bonus Mode” in which all of your residents will look exactly like your first resident when you start a new game.
Try placing your highest Health units in the second column (with melee weapons), your lowest Health units in the back column (with ranged weapons) and your mid-range Health units in the front column (with melee weapons). This will allow you to preserve your strongest units for the truly difficult enemies, whilst maximising your damage output against them by combining both melee and ranged attacks.
After clearing each floor, the next floor will have approximately 5 more enemies, and the reward for clearing the floor goes up by $500.

Name	Position	Weapon	Armor	Skill
Wes Smasher	Front Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Battle Cry 3
Keiko O’Hare	Front Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Power Strike 3
Johhny Archer	Front Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Rage 3
Gordi Forge	Front Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Rage 3
Khandy Singh	Second Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Power Strike 3
Malcolm Treed	Second Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Guard 3
Siles O’Hare	Second Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Guard 3
John Astro	Second Column	Force Sword	Kairo Suit	Guard 3
Tom Berlin	Back Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Power Strike 3
Lana Torres	Back Column	Drill	Powersuit 3	Power Strike 3
Holly O’Hare	Back Column	Multi-Bazooka	Powersuit 3	Recovery 3
Zeb Cochrane	Back Column	Plasma Rifle	Powersuit 3	Rage 3

Note: John Astro is the default name of your starting character in all subsequent playthroughs.