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Contents 1 PsyPets Time 1.1 Every Day 1.2 Every Hour 1.3 Every Half-Hour 1.4 Real-Time 2 Alerts 3 Self-Actualization and "Leveling Up" 4 License to Commerce 5 Preparing Food

PsyPets Time

Time passes in PsyPets at the same rate as it does in real life: hour for hour, minute for minute.

Every Day

• You receive your allowance (you must have at least one living pet)

Every Hour

• Your pets' needs are considered. Food, safety, love, and esteem are all decreased. Items in the house which maintain these needs - pillows, vases, and many others - are also considered.
• Your pets may engage in hourly activities, such as hunting, or inventing. Successful such attempts award a pet with more experience than unsuccessfull ones.

Every Half-Hour

• You may interact with your pets. You can always "pet" them, or try putting them to bed or waking them up, but other items, such as the Go Board, may offer other options. Half-hourly actions can fulfill safety, love, and esteem needs.

Real-Time

• Park events take place whenever they are filled. Park events can fulfill safety, love, and esteem needs. Additionally, a pet that does well in an event may receive prizes and/or experience points.

Alerts

While logged in, the blue bar near the top of the page reminds you who you're logged in as, as well as how much money you have on you.

On the left of this bar is an area reserved for alerts. New mail and city hall posts are a couple of the things this bar will keep you notified about.

• New mail
• Pending trades
• City hall post

Self-Actualization and "Leveling Up"

When all your pets needs are met (see The Psychology Behind PsyPets for more about pet needs), your pet will have the opportunity to gain "experience points." As per many role-playing games, when your pet has acquired enough experience points it will increase in skill, or "level up."

A "level" is a measure of how many times your pet has increased its skills in this way, so a "Level 1" pet has only just begun, where as a "Level 9" pet has increased in levels, and skill, eight times.

When your pet has accumulated enough experience points (sometimes denoted as "exp" or "XP"), a "Level Up" button will appear near the pet. Click on this to answer a question about your pet. How you answer determines how your pet increases in skill.

You do not have to click the "Level Up" button immediately. In fact, you can continue to accumulate experience points to the point where you may level up two or three times in a row, or more.

Also, once you have clicked the "Level Up" button, you do not have to answer the question immediately, however you will not receive a new question until you have answered the current one.

For the first week of being a member, you will be able to see your pet's experience points directly, as a number. However after this week you will have to rely on a less accurate, graphical representation. Just below your pet's image is its level, and a bar that fills up with red as your pet gains experience points. When this bar is full your pet is ready to level up.

License to Commerce

The License to Commerce is something you purchase from the City Hall for 500 plus extra moneys due to inflation. It is not an item you keep at home, but rather some paper work that gives you permission to engage in money-making and item-trading.

With the License to Commerce you may:

• Run your own store, where you set the prices and availability of items in your Storage.
• Ship items you own to other residents via the Post Office.
• Host events at The Park.
• Run Broadcasting advertisements.

The License to Commerce does not expire, and is not refundable or transferable.

Preparing Food

While at home you have the option to "prepare" items. Preparing takes some basic items of your choice, and turns them into something else. To prepare, check the items you want to use, and click the "Prepare" button.

A couple example recipes:

• 2 Redsberries yield Red Jelly.
• Tea Leaves on their own can be prepared into Tea, but you can also mix Tea Leaves with Ginger, Sugar, or even both, for different kinds of tea.

There are many recipes in the game. You may experiment to discover new ones, look them up on this wiki, or find a recipe book in-game.

If there are any recipes you would like to see in the game, talk about it in the appropriate forums.

Preparing food is often cheaper than buying it from the store, but there are some even greater advantages:

• When you feed your pet something that you prepared, additional love is granted.
• When you feed your pet something that someone else prepared, additional esteem is granted.

Think of it this way: if you go out of your way to make something for your pet, it's an expression of your love for your pet. If someone else goes out of their way to make something for your pet, your pet feels recognized and esteemed.