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With this hacked painting in your shop all of your employees motives energy, comfort, fun, bladder ect. will be refreshed automatically when ever they drop a little just buy the sign and hang it on a wall.
If you have any servos they get refreshed & recharged automatically as well.
EP3 is required to use this mod.

1/16/07 I added max environment & refresh pets.
4/3/07 Prevents sims from freezing or getting to hot.
 
If you don't have nightlife installed download one of these files: OFB_RefreshEmployeesv1.2a_Non_NL.zip it's a hacked fruit painting.
OFB_RefreshEmployees&SleepoverNon_NL.zip(Sets all greeted sims to sleep over status doesn't max enviroment)
 
Only download one file:
OFB_RefreshEmployees&MaxEnvironmentV1.0a.zip(Keeps sims environment Maxed)
OFB_RefreshEmployees&EnviromentAlternate.zip(Keeps sims environment Maxed)
OFB_RefreshEmployees&SleepoverV1.0a.zip(Sets all greeted sims to sleep over status doesn't max environment)
AutoRefreshSleepover&MaxEnvironment.zip(Sets all greeted sims to sleep over status, keeps environment maxed, & refreshes pets)
AutoRefreshSleepover&MaxEnvironmentEP5.zip(EP5 Required)
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Another very needed mod! Many thanks again!!

Yes i agree with Kathy again, thanks for this much needed mod...:beer:

This is great !!!!
:clapp: Thank you very much for making our simmie life easier :clapp:

Hoorah!  Now I don't have to manually refresh everyone over and over. Thankies! :B

Fantastic! This is just what I need for all my shops, thanks.

perfect for my maybe i can tell when the gett mad b/c they keep quitting, i do know if you do cntl shift c and hit max moitves your employess and family's moitves will max out but you can only lock your family by "moitve decay off"

:ot:  ps it's my 20th bday today:smt113

Squinge, I am so happy to see you here. I have been a loyal follower of your brilliant work. I use this hack and it is perfection.

Welcome Squinge! I've recently become a fan of yours and with you here at InSim now, it will be much easier for me to keep track of your hacks :D

I don't use all of them but I'm very pleased with the ones I do use...and I think I spotted another one I might be interested in *wanders off to look*

Ha ha, now my worthless, er..valued employees can work even longer, work drones, work.

i agree with sleepycat completely lol well said with this mod maybe i will actually have employees instead of dragging the whole family to the shops,i did fire one who refused to quit i saw money being paid out to an employee thinking i had sent them all home and found him in a hottub his whole shift lol.
wellll if i can't get paid irl for sitting in a hotub al day my sims won't either snicker

You know I thankful for this I can't wait to rub it in those "I quit" or "I wanna quit employee" faces.  I'm seriously just because I say work until the next day and no break is a ridiculous reason to quit.  Thank you Squinge I'm off to gloat :drool: :devill:

Thank you very much everyone.

thanks! this is great:D

any way to make it so it only refreshes employees, and not sims who live in the home business?

Ok i just changed it so you can enable/disable owner auto refresh.

I second this. This works incredibly well, keeps the employees working, but unfortunately the sim who lives there, never sleeps, eats, etc. The other problem is that it seems to refresh the customers and they will not leave the shop even when the closed sign is up. (not sure but that may be one of my other mods)

It must be another mod causing the customers to stay because the only way this refreshes customers is if you click on the refresh customers menu.

Going through them now. Most of my mods are yours that I have left. Only a couple from Two Jeffs.

Ok let me know if you figure out what is causing it.

This sounds very convenient ^_^
Thanks :)

I had your original version of this, and the only problem I ran into was customers occasionally freezing in front of the cash register and holding up the line.  The only way to fix this was to use move objects on and delete the bugged customer.  Taking the sign off the lot stopped the problem from happening, so I'm curious as to whether you were aware of this before and have fixed it with this version?

That has never been reported before & I have never experenced it myself with the painting, but before I ever made the painting I had customers get stuck like that at the register so i think that bug is from maxis.

Ah, I see.  It must have been coincidence, then.  Thank you for responding. :)  And thanks for the updated hack, too.

As requested I posted an alternate version that keeps all sims enviroment motive maxed, the owner/employee auto refresh is disabled by default in the alternate version but you can enable them if you wish.

Thanks so very much for the max environment! Woot! :D

EDIT: I just tested this in the game and it works fine.

However, I was just wondering, is there any way to recolor this painting so it's invisible in the game? The triangle painting is such an odd shape that it's a little hard to cover up with a normal painting over it.

See, all I'm using it for is the max environment options. :) I'm not using the other functions... well, at the moment anyway, so I just used 'moveobjects on' and hung a bigger painting over it. lol

Like I said though, the triangle shape is a little hard to cover in the game.

that is great!
now i wont be forced to use so much decoration in every single room :)

I will try it & get back to you asap :)

Okay, thank you so very much. :)

Thanks for this!

I just posted a new alternate version of this mod it set's all greeted vistor's to sleep over status(enabled by default) & monitors visitors motives and keeps them just above the point that would make them leave your lot.

Hmm..  I have a question..  Greeted visitor will be set to sleepover status automaticly IF we PUT this thing on lot , If we DID'NT put this thing on our lot..  Visitor will be just like visitor (They're not set to sleepover status)..  Is it right? corrct me if I wrong..

From my experience with it, yes this is the case. If you have no sign, or disable the visitor option, then nothing will happen. :)

I love this mod. It will be a grate help.Thank you very much.

Thanks so very much for the alternative fan environment painting!

Great work as always. :)

thnx...this is what I needed...but sleepover...does this mean they can go 2 sleep in a bed if u buy 1...?

yes it means the visiting sims can do all the things they do when you invite them to stay the night.

I just posted a updated version of the visitor sleepover, guests will now sleep if there is a bed available.

OK I don't have nightlife so I downloaded that but you have three new things on there. I want the last one is it ok to install both? Sorry little confused:)

You can try downloading the other painting but someone told me it doesn't appear in the catalog if you don't own nightlife, but I haven't tried it myself without nightlife being installed.

Can it be made for non NL people?

Already done, if you don't have NL you need this version as mention in the 1st post by Squinge:  

What would we do without your mods?  Thank you.

Awesome, thank you so much.  Now has anyone seen that hunger hack for when you have a restuarant

Please do a search :)

Thank you!  I've wanted something like this for a long, long time and purely by accident found this.  Now I'm ready to play!
Thanks for your work and sharing.

Hey, before I pick the wrong one, I want to know if the 'OFB_RefreshEmployees&SleepoverV1.0a.zip(Sets all greeted sims to sleep over status)' have the same 'environment maxed' effect that the other two have?

No the sleep over doesn't max enviroment.

Oooh, interesting. I might have to pick up a version of this -- I just hired my first employee at a business, and her needs were in the red the whole time, if that mood ball over her head was any indication. Thanks!

If I get the sleepover version, do I still need to download community lot sleepover hack?

If you want them to sleep on community lots yes.

I just posted another version that includes visitor sleepover for people that don't own EP2.

This is probably one of the most useful hacks ive seen, Great stuff :D

thankees!!

Hello, Squinge. It's me again.

I know it's been a long time since we talked about visitor detention, but I hope you memory of our discussions is still fresh.

I've been doing some fiddling with Housing/Business Lots of late, and I was having some difficulty getting sims to clear off home. Even if I set Visitors Stay to Disabled, they still wouldn't take the hint and get out.

I DL'd Paladin's HCDU(Hack Conflict Detection Utility) and ran it. The Refresh Painting posed NO conflicts at all, but Visitors Never Leave conflicted with Twojeffs' Visitor Controller.

My own fault, I'd totally messed up and forgotten to remove Visitors Never Leave, which I should've done because this painting makes it redundant, right?

Doh!

So, after scrapping Visitors Never Leave, I tested this one again, and even with Twojeffs' hack, all seems well so far...

...but I have two small issues thatI need to raise:

1) WITHOUT this painting on a Lot, and with VNL removed, the game will use the default settings for determining whether or not visitors should go, right? So on all Lots where this painting is NOT present, visitors won't be detained, correct?

Sorry for the confusion on my part, but it's been so long, and I've mistakenly had VNL running, so I got confused over which hack's doing what.

Yep, I'm an arse.

Sorry.


2) With Visitor Stay disabled, it seems that sims(though they will leave eventually) need an awful lot of motive reduction(more than just 25% Energy stat) before they'll decide to clear off. I guess this is just the standard Maxis default setting... although I understand Twojeffs' VC makes them stay later, but I don't think it alters the motive threshold.

Is there a chance that this could be altered? Perhaps a hack to raise the motive threshold so that they need fewer low motives before going home? For starters, I reckon that IF they're not on a Sleepover, visitors should leave before their Hygene drops low enough for them to shower. That would make sense, no? I mean, if I were dropping in round someone's house for tea but not staying over, I'd use their toilet when necessary, but I wouldn't strip off and get in their bath or shower without permission.

What do you reckon to a wee hack to raise the likelyhood of them clearing off home?

IF you feel inclined, I'll gladly do some playtesting to help ascertain a sensible level for the settings.

In any case, thanks for your work, as always. :)

Adam.

VERY HELPFUL AND USEFUL! THANX

This is great, thank you!

This is definitely needed. It's hard to get my employees out of the yellow/red bubble status and I always end up having to send them home for the day.  Now, I don't feel I will have that problem anymore, of course, thanks to you with another great mod!! You're awesome!! :)

How can I help but love you???
   Your hacks are the best, AND you answer requests!
       THANKS! :D

Hey this is the one that i needed!!!!!
Thanks Squinge.
I just have one question, u said download "only" one mod file, but i want to have employees or visitor/customer to have to max environment/mood and make visitor/customer sleep in the lot (i made a hotel for people to sleep).
So, can u give me any suggestions about this?

I just posted a new version of the visitor sleepover version; it now refreshes pets motives(disabled by default) it also keeps everyones environment motive maxed(enabled by default).
 
If you don't own the pets EP the refresh pets option will not appear when you click on the painting.

Thx for sure.
I really appreciate it.

Oh wow. For some time now (well ages actually) I've been using a painting that I had to manually refresh everyone motives. I had a copy of this, but I don't often play businesses so I never really knew how good it was. About a week ago I discovered just how wonderful it is... then while looking for info on another of your mods, I find you here with them all AND some updates and different pics available for this one. Thank you so much.

Thank you Squinge, this is great!

Just a quick question, if you don't mind.  Now, I know you can turn off auto refresh for the owner of the business, but what about the rest of his family, if it's a home business?  Would it work for everyone but the employees?  Thanks

The owner refresh will refresh the entire family weather you have a business on the lot or not.

Wow, quick answer!  If the auto-refresh is off however, will it not refresh his family then?  

I was actually looking for just refreshing the employees.  I like my playable sims to have natural of lives as possible.

That is correct if the owner auto refresh is off then it will only refresh employees.

Great!  Thank you so much

Your welcome :D

Maybe I missed something while reading throught this thread... I hope not, but will this just work at home to refresh pets motives only... no one elses? Because when I send my pet to work, she is exhausted from staying up all night getting her chew on... and so when she gets home, she collapes from it and then my sim can't teach her a new command so she can get promoted. Maybe that is more info than you need... but I wanted to explain. Thanks much! You are awesome!

AutoRefreshSleepover&MaxEnvironment.zip(Sets all greeted sims to sleep over status, keeps environment maxed, & refreshes pets), you can also set it to max the motives of all sims living on the lot, you can disable the options you don't want to use.

Thank you very much!

*downloads and plays happily*

Did you disable employee refresh?

I just posted a new EP5 version of this mod, it now prevents sims from freezing or getting to hot.

Thank you so much.

A blessing. Thanks

awesome!!

What a godsend! Thank you for creating this!

I believe this will come in handy. thanks!! :)

works for FT? :confused: Thanks

yes it does :D

confused... what file is newer? i have all eps what file install??

i realy like this item as it has a option i like is there any way to make this for the servo only?