How to Get Permanent Residents

How to Get Permanent Residents
So you've built a station but are running low on cash, to start making money you'll need some aliens to move in.

Of course you've followed the tutorial so you know how to build a Solar Panel and a minimum of 9 tiles room assigned as a Living Area. You should have also built at least one Oxygen Generator in your living area (preferably 2) and have opened your station to visitors who are now wandering happily through your station. Before they will move in there are still a couple of things you will need to do, first you'll have to make sure they are happy in your station, this means keeping them fed and well rested. You can monitor their various happiness measures on a characters stat card by clicking their name in the Resident List.

In order to keep them fed you will need enough Food Replicators operating in your station, for the low population you'll have early on, one or two should be enough.

In order to keep them rested you will need enough Cryosleep Chambers, once again one or two should be enough.

Finally you need somewhere for the permanent residents to live, this means building some minimum 2 tile, fully enclosed rooms and assigning them as Private Rooms.

If you have done all of the above then it should be a short matter of time before you are alerted that some a visitor has moved into your station. Be sure and assign that alien as an Officer to get access to the Command and Control options, otherwise your population will remain capped at 1.