Week 4 Patch Notes - Staff

It has now been one month since the game was first released in Early Access. I would like to thank you all again for the incredible support you provided over the course of this month!❤️

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If you come across any issues or bugs while playing the game, don't hesitate to reach out to me!

What's coming next?

• Store Expansion - It's time to expand the store. This gonna be released in two separated parts, one where it will be possible to expand the store in the ground floor and next, different floors!

• Bank Loan and Bankruptcy - One of the most asked features you asked is the possibility of taking loans. It's coming! Also need to introduce some kind of bankruptcy 😅

• More Furniture - Expect a bunch of new furniture in the next big patch. In all categories!

New Features

Staff Application (Tablet)

New Staff application will be unlocked when achieving half your first reputation star.

In this app you will find two tabs:

• Recruitment - Where you can post job ads, spend money, and search for candidates. The number of candidates that apply is influenced by two factors: the amount of time or money spent advertising and the reputation of the store. Stores with a higher reputation will attract job candidates with better qualifications.

• Employees - This is where you can find a list of all the currently employed workers. You can review task assignments, current progress, and schedules. You can assign a work schedule for each employee and task. In addition, you have the option to terminate an employee's services if you no longer require them.

The current employee tasks are:

• Steam post image Restocking - Check the empty shelves and get the products restock. In first place, if some product is available in a storage rack and not placed in a shelf, the employee will try to get those first. If there aren't new products, they will try to restock the shelf with lowest product quantity.

• Steam post image Cleaning - While cleaning, employees will complete four tasks to keep the store clean: cleaning dirt from the floor, picking up papers, retrieving any bags dropped by customers, and emptying the trash bins.

• Steam post image Cashier - The employee will go to one of the available cash registers and scan all the products.

Employees

Each employee will have three main stats:

• Speed - Affects the speed of tasks like scanning products at the cash register or cleaning the store.

• Attention - Affects the attention to details like the products on the cash register. This will make the employees scan the products correctly without missing anything. And don't forget, a perfect attendance at the cash register means a bonus tip 🧙.

• Motivation - Affects the overall performance of the employee. Less stamina and happiness will be consumed while doing the tasks around the store.

Beside that main stats, there are two other stats that define how employees behave:

• Stamina - Performing tasks consumes stamina. When this stamina gets too low, the worker will look for a comfort item (like a chair) to sit on and regain some stamina. The task being performed will be paused until the worker has recovered.

• Happiness - Overall happiness of the worker. For now, it's just a base stat that is consumed while working in the shop. If the happiness gets too low, you may end up losing the employee.

Both these stats are recovered during rest or when the employee is off duty.

Would like to leave it here noted that the current system is a base for further exploration and will be improved over time. It is by no means finished. Also, you can't really train employees at the moment. You will have to hire new employees with new stats.

Staff Comfort Items

Now staff will actively seek comfort while resting. Items while in the chair will help increase the stamina recovery. More items will be added soon! 😁

Notifications

New notifications have been added to let you know some store management important decisions:

• Recruitment Started - Who started the recruitment and how much it cost.

• Recruitment Finished - Recruitment process finished and how much candidates it found.

• Employee Hired - Who hired who!

• Employee Fired - Who fired who! Can't fire your friends 👌

Customers

• Better route - Customers will now look for the best way to pay for the products and leave. This means that if a new cashier is open or a self-service cashier is free, they will try to go to it. This allows players to effectively run 2 or more cashiers at the same time. If you need to speed up the payout, you can go to a new cashier and see the queue of the older ones split into the new one 😍.

Administration App

• Staff Costs - Now you can check the daily costs of all employees in the Administration tab. Are they even worth 🤔?

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where the drop bags could be stuck outside zone or at store wall.

• Fixed an issue where was impossible to skip night after readjust the store schedule.

Language

• Fixed translations errors in german and spanish.