I have a PA, and I've got some notifications. But I've also seen resignations without prior notice. (Okay, maybe I've missed a few, wouldn't swear an oath on that...)i've tested and cannot replicate. once they drop to 0, they go into 1 week grace period. if you keep it above 10, they'll stay.
you dont get notified if they're unhappy if you dont have HR employed. this PA will send you a mail that they're unhappy.
also dailly happiness loss is limited to -30, cannot drop more than that.
i have to investigate more.
I had one staff member which was close to 100 for quite a while. Suddenly he appeared in the lower range and... he was gone! There was no notification. I'm pretty sure he never dropped to zero.
30 per day is still a deep dive. If you check only every other day it's already 60.
During the last session the number of losses was already quite low. But all the cases were rather weird IMHO.
Now I decided to do absolutely nothing, just watch. For maybe 2 or 3 game weeks. I've kept the production queue as full as possible.
Happiness drops sometimes into the 60s but is usually well beyond 90. No further losses.
But now all training sessions were finished. Most of staff must have reached their cap.
Maybe that's the point? Hire a bunch of rookies, let them learn on the job and they learn way to fast?
The whole trouble started about 2 game months before, when I noticed that the complete staff of a studio was gone!? I had no fucking clue what just happened. Only later I found the resignation mails. (no PA at that time)
I cheated me a full complement of lvl 10 staff for the vacated studio. But continued normally for the other one and the next one to come.
One by one I lost almost all of the "normally" hired staff. But I lost only one of the cheated lvl 10 staff.
Oh and a PS:
The male MC and the girls all have rather average and healthy proportions.
All the other boys are somewhere around 90cm and 220kg.
And none of them was tagged as a "Quarter Ton Hobbit"!
Thankfully there is no faithful visual representation of this.