General -- Assets (Item Uses)

beYou operates as an asset-based system where almost everything you use is stored to your beYou account as assets.

## Assets Defined

A beYou asset is any beYou item that the a beYou citizen owns or uses. Assets are stored in your private account and no one can see what exactly is in your assets.

To view a full listing of what is in your assets, you will use the assets window that is visible on your beYou profile page on the right-hand side of your screen (Fig. 1).

The assets window is a series of folders that list all of your assets as well as the amount (qty) of them you have loaded.

## Types of Assets

While beYou has a large number of assets, not all assets are created equal nor are they made to be used in the same way.

### Non-Expiring Assets

#### Unlimited Use Assets

Unlimited use assets are items such as your beYou furniture, beYou equipment, some decor pieces, and some tools within cooking recipes.

These items carry unlimited uses because they may contribute to your roleplay by providing stats, by being used to create items that can be used to get stat boosts, or are part of a piece of equipment to help create more visual accents to your roleplay environment.

Some examples of these types of assets are living room furniture (both decorative & gives stats), interactive grills (helps create both RP food and stat-boosting foods), recreational games like beYou Greedy (gives stats), the various pans that rez when cooking (needed to continue RP of cooking), and beYou Phone Skins (when added they make your phone look cute when you're holding it).

#### Limited Use Assets

Limited use assets are items that we buy for everyday use that, while they don't expire once loaded to assets, will deplete their uses over time.

Some examples of these types of assets are wood, seeds for planting, hygiene products, crafting tools, or tools we use toward our professions (like forms for lawyers or examination tools for our doctors). When purchased, they usually are sold in a set quantity and will remove 1 use each time you use them. When that use is complete, it is removed from assets. Once you've used the last one of that item, you will need to replenish or purchase more of it to continue using it.

#### Expiring Assets

Expiring items are the biggest part of our beYou system. Why? Because it can quite literally save your beYou life.

The items we use to boost our wellness are food and drink. And just like in real life, food and drinks expire.

Because this is one of the biggest parts of beYou, we also can use this not only for our roleplay but also as one of many things we can sell or trade with others in our communities to keep ourselves going.

Because our wellness is vital to our beYou survival, we have to ensure that we have enough items to keep ourselves going ... and not be bored by using the same things repeatedly.

So most of our food and beverage items will expire. This is done not only to add to the realism of the system but also to allow us to have an easily tradable and marketable item if we decide to pursue our professions.

\*\*Remember some assets (item uses) expire in 30 days or less, depending on when you bought them.

## Using Assets

Whenever you use an item, your asset quantity (qty) will decrease and you can see the remainder by refreshing your profile page.

Except for some furniture, most items will load into your assets so you can see how much you have to use.

Except for cooking (and eating) and some farming tools, each use counts as one single use.

### Exceptions

#### Eating

When creating a meal or homemade beverage, one must choose whether they are making a 2-serving, 4-serving, 8-serving, or 16-serving food or drink item.

Once the food or drinks are prepared, they go into your assets as 2, 4, 8, or 16 uses of those creations.

These can be later broken down to (and sold as) single-uses using beYou Vendors. When these items are cooked, we use less to create more.

#### Cooking

When cooking food or making drinks, your ingredients and raw materials count as uses toward serving sizes.

This is actually where the math gets kind of cool. As previously stated, most items in beYou are single-use.

Ingredients, however, don't work the same. Each ingredient we use to create a prep dish or a meal will double in serving size.

For example: If you want to make a 2-serving meal of waffles, you will only use 1 use of a toasted waffle to make those 2 servings. Want to make waffles for 4 people? You'll only need 2 toasted waffles and so on.

## Sharing Your Assets

You can transfer both Food & Hygiene products to other users in beYou.

### Transferring Hygiene Assets

You can transfer your hygiene products to users who have a bathroom by using the beYou Family Bathroom Box.

### Transferring Food Assets

There are a few ways you can give foods and various items to other users: beYou Vendors, beYou Refrigerators & the beYou Family Recipe Box.

#### beYou Vendors

In November 2021, packagers were changed to no longer save food items to SL inventory. Now you will use those packagers to retrieve and use beYou Vendors. By using beYou Vendors, you can sell items to others using the gift option. beYou Vendors also have a large variety of other uses that are a bit too much for this page. For more detailed information beYou Vendors and how they work please visit the beYou Vendors page.

#### beYou Refrigerators

If you don't want to use beYou Vendors and want to keep your uses more localized, you can change the security level of your beYou Refrigerator to group or all, so that others may retrieve food items from your assets on their own. There is a messaging service included in the options that will notify you when someone does this but you will need to set those. For more information regarding this feature and other instructions regarding the beYou Refrigerator, visit the beYou Refrigerators page.

#### beYou Family Recipe Box

If you don't have a fridge, or have a fridge (and/or packager) but don't want to use a vendor to transfer food items (including ingredients), you may use the Family Recipe Box. This box has to be owned by the person whose kitchen is being used in order for them to receive (and use) the ingredients properly. For more information, visit the Family Recipe Box page.

## Lost Uses

If you lose assets due to Second Life issues or from a problem with something in-world, then please submit a Support Ticket through the beYou Website for more assistance. Be as detailed as possible so that beYou staff can try to pinpoint the issue quickly and without issue. For tips on sending support visit our help page.