Player guide
Skills & Stats
Learn how character development affects the actions you take.
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What skills do
Skills are inputs to action-specific calculations. There is no single best skill: a song leans heavily on Creativity, a company leans heavily on Financial Acumen, and a political rally values presentation and leadership. The action guide shows the exact mix when the calculation is stable.
Practicing a skill
Each attempted skill point costs $10,000 and 5 Energy, and no skill can rise above 100. The game automatically reduces a multi-point request to the amount your cash, Energy, and remaining room under the cap can support.
How to specialize
Start from the result you want, then improve the heavily weighted skills in that formula. Raising a lightly weighted skill still helps, but usually changes the result less than raising a heavily weighted one by the same amount.
Mechanics
How results are calculated
These rules come from the game calculation. Live market values and event-specific settings can still change the final result where noted.
Practice limit
Rule
Points gained = the smallest of: points requested, cash divided by $10,000, Energy divided by 5, and room remaining below 100.
- Cash and Energy are charged only for the points actually gained.
- Whole points are used; partial affordable points do not count.
- The 100-point cap is checked before resources are spent.
Worked example
Requesting 6 points normally costs $60,000 and 30 Energy. If the skill is already 97, only 3 points can be gained, costing $30,000 and 15 Energy.
Reading a weighted formula
Rule
Multiply each skill by its percentage, then add the results.
- A 35% skill has more than three times the influence of a 10% skill.
- Weights describe predictable influence, not necessarily the whole outcome; some actions also use markets, opponents, or randomness.
Worked example
A gig uses 35% Performance and 20% Networking. Adding 10 Performance raises that skill factor by 3.5 points; adding 10 Networking raises it by 2 points.
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