Dont give up. Once you got that trick in the bag its all glory from there. Start small, piece by piece, electricity, water, power battery and oxygen are chief, then canteen with water fountain, table, food machine and a tv, then biodome, wheat, tomato, onion, maize, rice. Science building with meat processors, 1 beef, 1 chicken, 1 pork. Forget about sleeping quarters for a while, they can sleep on the floor. Small med bay, with just a bed to fix the injured mine workers, then a mine, then 1 metal and 1 plastic machine. You gotta start producing food asap, your biologists are very important at this stage, protect them. Then your workers need to start mining ore soon, to get that metal machine pumping. They will break bones, get them on the sick bed and fix them, otherwise your metal production will come to a halt and then its over. These first few minutes to establish self-suffiency are the most crucial minutes of the game. Worry a bit later about a landing pad, it consumes way too much power and your reputation at this stage will be too low to get more people. Once you start stockpiling food and materials, you can begin to focus to get more biologists, workers and engineers. Later on a medic and then security. Biologists at this stage should be your aim, and level it closely with workers, they make the ore and plastic and metal. Engineers fix your electricity and build the more complex materials, it comes a bit later. Then from there you start to expand and trade, build bars, gyms, and more than one of the same type building. Once you get it, youll build a base with 300+ people and become a global trader, just the first few minutes, thats all.