General -- LEP and Leveling

Now that you've started using beYou, you are most likely wondering things like:

* What can I do?
* When can I do this?
* How many levels does it take to blah blah blah?

Before you can do anything, you will need to start earning LEP.

## What is LEP?

Life Experience Points (LEP) are what you earn to increase your beYou player level, which is not the same as your Profession level.

## Why do you need LEP?

LEP allows you to do reach certain benchmarks and then in turn, do more in beYou.

What do we mean by more? You can:

* select a profession
* harvest certain items that require higher levels
* use higher level equipment
* earn rewards for continued use of the system

### LEP Benchmarks

What is a LEP benchmark? Benchmarks show what you can do at what level; or leading up to that level.

#### Levels 1-4

Learn the basics (eating, drinking, using bathroom, etc.); read the basic training book included with the training desk, cooking, farming, painting, raising chickens.

While you can cook, farm, and raise chickens, there are some limitations with each of these activities:

* **Cooking**: all foods cooked when you don't have cooking as a profession will have an NG food grade. This means the food will not give you stats.
* **Farming**: you may get at least one harvest with each seed planted. It is not guaranteed you will get more than one harvest. If you are worried about getting more harvests you can always help a fellow farmer by watering their crops for them.
* **Raising Chickens**: while you can raise chickens, you will need to be a higher level to make their feed and administer their meds.

#### Level 5

Pick a profession, cook stat-giving food, earn higher yields when harvesting from your farm, chopping regular trees, use the Blacksmith Forge, use the Reverse Butcher Station, grow herbs,

Level 15: harvest trees & herbs,

Some beYou items, Crafting stations or Professions have a beYou Level requirement. Such as you cannot enable any Profession until you are a level 5 or you cannot use a beYou Workbench until you are a level 15.

Make sure to read the documentation on an item and keep an eye out for any signs near vendors that show a level requirement before you purchase an item.

beYou Levels are also a requirement to level up in your Professions. Even if you have earned or accumulated all the other requirements to level up a profession, you will not be able to until you reach the LEP level that profession level unlocks at.

There are also Special Gift Boxes or Power Gift Boxes you will get delivered to you when you reach certain milestone beYou Levels.

## Earning LEP & Leveling Up

 File:LEP.PNG  Just like in other task-based games or experiences, levels will not only increase over time, but also will take longer to achieve as one's level gets higher.

### How is LEP earned?

Keeping your hud on and your stats up; that's all.

You can only earn LEP when you are wearing the beYou HUD. If you have the beYou HUD attached, You will get an LEP point 4 times per hour if your stats do not fall below 20%. If you fall below 20% on any stat your LEP points will stop being earned until you get all stats above 20% then will automatically continue to add to your account.

*If you detach (take off) your beYou HUD, you will no longer keep earning LEP no matter how high your stats are until you reattach or wear the HUD again.*

There is no other way to earn LEP. Just time and stats above 20%.

### How does one level up?

Every beYou Level requires a certain number of LEP points to be earned and once you reach that number your level will increase. At every new level the amount of LEP needed to level up gets larger. For example, you might need 100 LEP to get to level 10 but you might need 300 LEP to get to level 11.

The progress bar displayed under your current level shows the percent (%) of LEP you have earned so far that you need to get to the next level. As an Example, if you needed 100 LEP to get to the next level and you have earned 50 then your progress bar would be half filled.

**WARNING**: Disabling Health (*ability to get sick*) on your account will drop your ability to earn LEP from 4 to 2 times per hour (Half). Click here for information on how to enable/disable health.

## Leveling Up Indicator

 File:Leveling up - indicator.png  Congratulations!

Once you have completed the required number of achievements, earned enough LEP and your skill points have reached 100% for your professions, you will see a blue button that reads 'Level Up' on the professions window on your beYou Profile page.

Once you see the Level Up button, press it and you will be walked through selecting achievements or other session credits needed to advance to the next level. Once you have completed that step you will not be able to use the achievements chosen again.

## Level 30 & Higher Leveling Bonuses

**EFFECTIVE 08/2022**: All gift box items are now sent directly to your assets.

Once you hit level 30, you will begin to receive gift boxes which you will continue to receive every 5 beYou player levels after that.

These are rewards for continued play and double as incentives to encourage you to continue.

While the gifts may vary from time to time, here is just a sample of some of the items you might receive:

### Hygiene Products

The hygiene products you receive from incentive boxes may have more of a boost than the generic wearable hygiene products. Some items you may receive include: Extreme Hair Brush, Extreme Shampoo & Extreme Soapy Soap.

To retrieve your wearable hygiene products, use the beYou Medicine Cabinet. It is free to all beYou World Group members and you will find this on the wall at the main beYou sim in the Pharmacy department.

**IMPORTANT**: you must be a member of the beYou World Group inworld in order to grab the free medicine cabinet. Hygiene products from gifts will be under the category 'Gift Items'.

### Poppers

Poppers delivered in the leveling gift boxes usually have 20 uses.

To use poppers, you will retrieve them from the drinks menu under the popper category when you access your refrigerator.

#### Types of Poppers & Stats Affected

* Smarty Pants Poppers - Dedication/Reputation
* Escargot Energy Poppers - Energy
* beYou Liverantix - Multiple stats
* Peyote Poppers - Mana
* Coco Caca Poppers - Mood

### Vitamins

You will receive both men and women's vitamins. They will boost most stats. They won't boost wellness or social. To find out which specific stats they do affect, you can look on the Items by Stats page and click a stat to see what items affect it.

To retrieve your vitamins, use the beYou Medicine Cabinet. It is free to all beYou World Group members and you will find this on the wall at the main beYou sim in the Pharmacy department.

**IMPORTANT**: you must be a member of the beYou World Group inworld in order to grab the free medicine cabinet. Hygiene products from gifts will be under the category 'Gift Items'.