i think it would be cool if we got a pop-up window letting us know that the game will be autorefreshing

perhaps a 5 minute warning would be cool

would a sound effect be ok instead?
because you can set up windows scheduler to make a sound at a specific time and every hour after...

It does it every hour, right on the dot.

yah but he wants some sort of signal because people lose track of time when they're not watching the system clock in the corner of the screen... heck, i've sometimes gone 3 hrs before claiming resources and i've been online that entire time