Employees hate me, why?

[roanock]

Hi, I've got the cheapest smithy, Hired on Pat Cowe, Old Jacob, Ash Brown and John Bows. And for some reason the first three default to hating me. I'm not sure why that is as I'm paying them 2 copper more than the expected amount and their energy bars don't seem to be empty. Is there something I'm missing?

[burntgyoza]

NPCs have "initial friendship". After meeting you for the first time, some are neutral, some are friendly, some are unfriendly. The Cowe(s) are the unfriendly type. You have to befriend them by doing task/giving gifts.

[iNol]

If you been running the shop 24/7, even with 4 workers to lessen the work load per day, it makes everyone cannot regen energy well somehow. Eventually they would run out of energy and hate you. the energy will regen everyday, but not to full and i heard the hate never goes away.

[greypoe]

Give mr Bows some gooseberries, give lucy strawberries, Mr Cow give some milk from his cow.

[roanock]

To clarify some more details: It seems they hate me on the staff page (I guess it means they hate working there?). They have the red mask faces next to their portraits in the shop ledger (Except for John who's happy for some reason). In terms of the hearts relationship, Pat is at -3 hearts, Old Jacob is at +3, and the other 2 are neutral. I alternate their shifts so they either do 3 hours or 6 hours a day, so I don't think they're being over worked.

[Kyle]

currently there is no way to raise it and there is no real downside either, a lot of us on the discord are just setting them to 1 brass and having them work alternating shifts so we're open 24/7

i think it impacts forging xp they get, albeit that also doesn't have much of a benefit as far as i can tell

[burntgyoza]

Originally posted by roanock:

To clarify some more details: It seems they hate me on the staff page (I guess it means they hate working there?). They have the red mask faces next to their portraits in the shop ledger (Except for John who's happy for some reason). In terms of the hearts relationship, Pat is at -3 hearts, Old Jacob is at +3, and the other 2 are neutral. I alternate their shifts so they either do 3 hours or 6 hours a day, so I don't think they're being over worked.

So you CAN overwork them???
I hire Ned Scrumpy 9hours/everyday since finishing his quest.
So he is gonna hate me?

[iNol]

Originally posted by tatalin_:

So you CAN overwork them???
I hire Ned Scrumpy 9hours/everyday since finishing his quest.
So he is gonna hate me?

I make Icabod work 12 hours a day, no issue. Just come early to your shop and see his energy, if it is full, it is sustainable. Also come to last hour of his shift and see his energy, if not too close to zero, it is fine. This is as long as you dont run the shop 24/7. If you do, it wont be sustainable even 6h shift a day for each worker. Dont ask me why, it is just like that currently.