General -- beYou Skill Points

Skill Points are used to progress your profession's level. They are not related to increasing your beYou Level (LEP). See the LEP page for that information.

## What are Skill Points?

Skill points are an additional tool that will help you gain more experience as you try to level your professions. Just like practicing a move repeatedly in a sport or type of tasks helps you to improve, skill points are the markers that help increase your abilities in that category, helping you get one step closer to leveling up a career path.

## Types of Skill Points

There are 7 specific types of skill points in addition to generic skill points one can earn through various activities in beYou. Here we will go over the skills, what they are specifically used for and how to add points to different areas.

* Spirituality
* Charisma
* Logic
* Creativity
* Fitness
* Cooking
* Mechanical

Each beYou Profession requires different skills with specific amounts of points required for each.

For example: Culinary might require 20 creativity points while Farmer and Law require more.

If you go to your beYou profile page and scroll down below your player information you will see your skill points listed by type with the amount you have currently available and not used.

You can earn specific skill points by doing various things in the beYou System such as training, crafting, cooking, farming as well as special achievements, daily quests or missions.

beYou Training Books can earn you assorted types of skill points, including Generic skill points. Generic Skill Points are the only type of skill point that can be transferred to another type of skill point.

If you select "my career path" after pressing the blue "account options" button next to your name, you will be able to see a graph of which skill points your career needs and how far along you are to completing that.

### Generic Skill Points

Can be earned with the beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer desk and Training Books. We have training books that allow you to earn Generic skill points that you can apply to whichever skill that you want. You will see those points you have available and not used on your profile page. They will be in yellow and say *"Available Generic"*.

Each training book has bonus questions after every chapter that will award a Generic skill point if answered correctly.

To apply those generic points to the skill that you want, simply find the skill on your profile page, such as creativity, and click the blue 'Add Points' button next to it. This will pull up a box for you to choose how many you wish to add. Select how many, save it and your generic skill points will be added to that specific skill. These cannot be moved once you have applied them.

**ADVISORY**: Do not apply your generic points until you are at the point of actively leveling your career path. Once you apply your generic points to a skill category, you can not apply them elsewhere. In addition, do not apply your generic skill points to other skills that are easily attainable like cooking or fitness. Those have very clear (and easy) methods in order to accumulate them. Use generic skill points for harder skill points like Logic, Charisma or Spirituality.

### Spirituality

It is a combination of overall Stats -- Social, Wellness, Mana, Dedication, Energy. There is a check daily for if you have been active and If all 5 stats are over 70% 1 spirituality point is earned. Holiday items/crops/foods might also give spirituality.

### Charisma

Can be earned by combinations of Mana/Mood/Social high levels, high levels of social interactions. If reputation is over 70%, for every 100 clicks of someone's meter (social interaction through the meter) , you may be able to get 1 charisma point awarded to you.

### Logic

* Embroidery
* beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer desk and some Training Books
* Icky Tacky Toes game which has 2 Bonus Rounds that offer a chance to earn Creativity or Logic Points.
* Processing legal or medical certificates.
* beBell Phone - The possible logic points depend on how you play the game. When your social is at 95% or above you will receive 1 Logic point after winning a game or after texting someone. Once your social maxes out at 100 or 99.9% no more Logic will be awarded, meaning you can earn a max of 1 logic point per day.

### Creativity

* Painting artwork on the beYou Easels (8 points per painting)
* beYou Greedy & CAH Game Tables - When the beYou Experience is enabled and you are using the beYou Greedy or Cards Against Humanity Table, the table gives 1 creativity point to the Game Winner (up to 50 available).
* Icky Tacky Toes game which has 2 Bonus Rounds that offer a chance to earn Creativity or Logic Points.

### Fitness

Can be earned by harvesting crops and through Yoga and Floor Exercise Mats.

### Cooking

Can be earned by grilling on the beYou BBQs or cooking in the beYou Kitchens. Amounts of points earned are based on the cook's Cooking Level and recipe level they are cooking. NOTE: cooked items need to be completed all the way through without interruption in order to earn the cooking point.

### Mechanical

* beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer desk and some Training Books.
* Also can be earned by crafting on most beYou Crafting Stations.
* Maintenance completed on the Excavator and Wind Mills/Turbines.
* Various crafting and manufacturing equipment.

## Accumulating Skill Points

As you progress through the development of your career, you will be able to earn skill points via different activities and equipment within beYou. As those skill points increase, you will notice on your profile that the quantity for each skill point in the skill points section will increase. The quantity of points you accumulate between profession levels will only apply to one profession at a time.

If you have chosen more than one profession and they share a certain type of skill point, you will need to earn at least twice the amount in order to apply the skill points to both professions if they were to level simultaneously.

When trying to accumulate skill points, remember that the number you see in the skill points section of your profile should only be looked at as a number going towards one profession at a time, even if you have 'extra' points. Any excess points not used will remain available for the next leveling of any given profession that requires skill points in that area.

For example (*these are **not actual numbers** needed; just an example*):

* Law requires 500 Mechanical points to go from level 3 to level 4.
* Cooking requires 138 Mechanical points to go from level 2 to level 3.

When you visit your career tracker, you notice that you have 100% on both Mechanical bars but only have 501 points showing under the skill points area of your profile. In order to level both professions when it is time to advance, you would need a total of 638 points in order to level both.

What this means is that if you are able to level Cooking before Law, then when looking at your career path you will notice that your percentage bar for Mechanical under Law will now say it is at around 72.5% and Mechanical will have a numeric value of 363 when you look at the skill points area of your profile.

**NOTE**: *The above example does **not** reflect real values for any given profession. They are intentionally listed under the wrong profession as an example so as to not be interpreted as anything other than how points work, not what is actually needed for these 2 professions in particular.*

## Calculating Remaining Skill Points

**NOTE** (as of 04/2023): This information will change as all professions are converted to the new method of leveling. This section has been added to help you calculate how many skill points for the professions still using the old method of leveling.

Because you need to accumulate a certain number of points for each skill, you will have to perform various tasks to get you to 100% per skill point per profession. In the event you already have skill points accumulated, you may want to know how many more skill points you need to get to 100% for a skill point for a profession. To do this, use this simple formula:

```
"Current Amount of Skill Points" / "Total" = Current Percent
Current Amount of Skill Points can be found on your profile tab.
Current Percent is found in your career path.
X is the remaining amount you need to get to 100%.

```

If this formula seems like a lot of work, you can also visit https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/percentage.php. Make sure that in the drop-down menu, you choose "Y out of WHAT is P%". As long as you pull the numbers from the above locations in both your profile and career path, you will be able to calculate how many more points you will need.

## Reminders

**\*\*\*\* IMPORTANT \*\*\*\*** If you have two careers enabled and wish to level up in both, you will need enough skill points in each of them to do so. Example: You may need 20 creativity points for culinary and 40 for medical so collectively you will need a total of 60 creativity points. **Leveling up in one will use up all skill points required for that level.**