SpacePimpin is a round-based sci-fi crime strategy game. You build an empire, spend turns, manage workers and gangsters, keep supplies flowing, watch your exposure, and decide when another player looks just a little too comfortable.
The short version is simple: make money, protect it, gather intel, pick your moments, and do not let the Space Police become overly interested in your business plan. They are famously poor sports.
Your account is permanent, but your empire lives inside a round. A round is a timed game world where every player starts fresh and tries to climb as high as possible before the clock runs out. The current live round is entered from the Games page, and the dashboard becomes your main control room once you are inside.
For now, new players start on Earth. Travel and off-world systems are being held back until the player population and the surrounding mechanics are ready for them. That keeps everyone close enough for rankings, attacks, syndicates, and drama to actually matter.
A fresh round account is not rich, but it is not helpless either. You begin with enough to run a few turns, buy a little stock, test the buttons, and make your first questionable decisions in a controlled environment.
You start with no blasters, disruptors, weed, or stims. Morale starts in the middle rather than at perfection, which means your first real job is not world domination. It is basic management. Very glamorous. Tremendous paperwork.
Most of the game turns around one loop: spend turns to make money, use money to improve your position, then decide whether to grow quietly or pressure another player. Pimping is the main income action. Stores let you buy supplies, weapons, and gangsters. Profiles and scouting help you decide who is vulnerable. Attacks let you act on that information.
Turns are your action fuel. The round shows your current turns and your current cap in the header and dashboard. Turns regenerate over time, but they stop accumulating when you hit the cap, so hoarding forever is rarely clever. Spending them is how your empire moves.
Small spends are steadier. Large spends can produce stronger rewards, especially on income and recruitment, but they are more volatile and they can leave you sitting on a pile of fresh cash while everyone else is suddenly very interested in your location. Big turns are not wrong. They are just loud.
Pimping is your main way to earn money and attract new workers and gangsters. The result is not a fixed vending machine payout. Bigger runs have more upside, but also more swing. A large run can be excellent, underwhelming, or mildly embarrassing depending on morale, supplies, reputation, exposure, and plain old variance.
Your workers generate gross revenue first. Their cut is removed from that total. You keep the rest. This is why the worker cut matters: reducing it can improve your immediate take, but the people doing the earning will notice. They are not decorative.
Worker morale is mainly driven by how well supplied your workers are with crack compared with the size of your workforce. The worker cut is a second pressure point. Around 10% is the rough floor before the cut itself starts becoming a serious morale problem. Above that can help morale. Below that can hurt fast.
Running out of crack is not a small inconvenience. It is mismanagement, and the game treats it that way. If your workers have no supply, morale can collapse, recruitment suffers, and workers can leave. Stims can give a small morale nudge, but they are not a replacement for feeding the actual worker system.
Gangsters defend your empire and power your attacks. They need weed to keep morale up. If you let gangster morale fall, your armed strength becomes less effective, which matters when another player decides to test your door.
Weapons have different power values. Phasers are basic, blasters are stronger, and disruptors are the serious option. Gangsters prefer the strongest weapons available first, then work downward. A pile of expensive weapons with too few gangsters is not an army. It is inventory with opinions.
The Armoury sells gangsters and weapons. The Back Alley sells weed, crack, and stims. Selling items back gives you less than you paid, so stores are not a free bank with extra steps.
Net worth is your visible strength score. Cash counts directly. Workers and gangsters count as assets. Guns and drugs count too, but at a reduced value so the rankings do not explode just because somebody bought a large pile of stock and admired it.
Exposure is the game's awareness meter. It represents how visible your operation has become to law enforcement. Exposure does not stop you acting. Even at dangerous levels, the game lets you take the risk. It simply means the consequences can become unpleasant.
High exposure can trigger Space Police intervention during pimp runs. They can confiscate cash, arrest workers, and seize supplies. At very high exposure, the danger becomes much sharper. Exposure cools down over time and is wiped clean overnight, but if you keep making noise before it drops, you are choosing to juggle lit fireworks indoors.
Profiles show public information first: name, rank, net worth, planet, and whatever public profile text the player has chosen to display. A profile is also where you message someone, open attack options, or inspect what your scouting has uncovered.
Scouting is how you turn a public profile into useful intel. Deeper scout layers reveal more about the target, moving from surface details into crew, cash, weapons, drugs, and stims. Scouting costs turns, adds exposure, and can fail. A failed scout can cost gangsters and may alert the defender.
Attacks are where SpacePimpin becomes player-versus-player. They cost turns, raise exposure, and can shift reputation. Successful attacks improve your standing. Failed attacks damage it. If you lose a fight badly enough, other players may notice that too.
Raid is the direct strike. It uses gangster strength, weapons, and morale to try to break the defender. A successful raid can kill defender gangsters and steal a slice of cash on hand. A failed raid can cost the attacker gangsters and reputation.
Poach targets unhappy workers. If the defender's worker morale is high, there is not much to steal. If morale is below 90%, the door opens, and the worse their morale gets, the more workers may decide that your empire looks less terrible.
Party is a costly worker-kill attack. You choose how much crack to bring, and the defender's stims can reduce the damage. Party only has a real chance when the defender has no gangsters protecting the workers.
Scout is the intel move. It does not affect reputation, but it can reveal what a target is hiding. It becomes more useful with each layer, and more painful when it goes wrong.
Solar Mail is your inbox. Direct messages live there, but it also receives alerts, incoming attack logs, auction notices, admin notices, and sent messages. Attack logs are incoming only, so they tell you what happened to your empire rather than listing every move you made.
The navigation badge lets you know when something unread is waiting. If you are attacked, invited to a syndicate, moderated by an admin, or later rewarded by a system event, this is where the game will tap you on the shoulder.
Rankings are mostly about net worth. The table shows who is strongest in the live round, and it includes planet information plus quick access to attack options. Net worth matters because it is public, comparable, and wonderfully easy to resent.
Reputation is different. It is a measure of how your actions are seen inside the round. Pimping can still move reputation slightly, but attacks are the main driver. Win meaningful fights and your reputation rises. Fail attacks or get beaten badly and it can fall. Higher reputation gives modest income and worker recruitment benefits, but it will not make you untouchable. That would be dull, and also suspicious.
Syndicates are small crews of up to three players. Creating one requires a reputation score above 150. The creator chooses the name and four-letter tag, and that identity is permanent unless the syndicate is disbanded.
A leader invites players. The invite arrives in the Alerts inbox, where the player can accept or decline. You can only belong to one syndicate at a time, and members cannot attack or scout each other. Syndicates also have their own private noticeboard and rankings based on combined member net worth.
Auctions have their own section for Weapons, Drugs, and Escrow, but they are holding pages for now. Travel is also disabled for the current stage of the game, so do not worry about being stranded on the wrong planet. At the moment, Earth is where the action is.
Future rounds can expand into more planets, markets, auctions, round creation tools, and preserved finished games. The important thing now is learning the live loop: earn, supply, scout, attack, message, and survive.
Start by opening the dashboard and checking your turns, cash, morale, supplies, and exposure. Do a modest pimp run, then look at what changed. If workers joined, make sure you have enough crack for the larger workforce. If gangsters joined, remember that weed keeps them useful.
Next, visit the stores and understand prices before spending wildly. Look at Rankings, open a few profiles, and get a feel for who is nearby. Try a scout before a serious attack. If exposure climbs too high, use Lie Low or stop drawing attention for a while. The best players will not be the ones who click the biggest button first. They will be the ones who know when the biggest button is worth pressing.