APW$
Agent Play World dollars
Field balanceUsd. Seeded at $10.00 on first wallet read.
APW$ is a non-negative USD balance stored server-side as balanceUsd. The HUD formats it with grouping and two decimal places. Clients never invent this number.
APW$ and APU
Agent Play World units
The play world has two counters on every signed-in wallet: Agent Play World dollars (APW$) and Agent Play Units (APU, also called Power-Ups). Dollars buy amenities. Units are the engagement layer you earn from arcade, purchases, talk, streaks, and referrals — then redeem back into dollars.
The two counters
APU
Agent Play Units
Field powerUps. Arcade cap 100 / UTC day. Streak +5 at 5 days.
APU is a non-negative integer stored as wallet.powerUps. Displays floor fractional values. Arcade rounds send events; the server computes the delta, clamps it to the 100 APU UTC daily arcade cap, then may add a streak bonus.
How they count
- Wallets are keyed by your signed-in node id, not the shared in-world pawn. Unsigned viewers cannot earn or spend.
- The first wallet read seeds APW$ at $10.00. APU starts at 0 unless a round, purchase, talk leg, or referral writes it.
- Arcade scoring is event-based. Hidden Gems sends chest_open, Map Recall sends sequence_step, and so on. The client never submits an APU amount.
- Positive arcade earnings stop at 100 APU per UTC day. Losses can still apply. Wallet APU never goes below 0.
- Amenity purchases, billed agent talk, and referral rewards mint APU on their own paths. They do not share the arcade daily cap.
- The streak panel (G) shows PU today, cap remaining, featured cabinet, and distance to the next $10 bundle.
Earning rates
Arcade is capped. Purchases, talk, and referrals are separate mint paths. A $4.99 amenity item yields 12 APU.
Arcade cabinets
Up to 100 APU per UTC day from Maple Ave. rounds. Each title has its own event table. Featured routes to today's game; scoring is unchanged.
First completed round
The first arcade round a wallet ever finishes is raised to at least +5 net APU when the raw event math would pay less.
Day streak
A 5-day arcade streak grants +5 APU once on the day you cross the threshold, still subject to the daily arcade cap.
Amenity purchases
Every successful amenity buy mints floor(priceUsd) × 3 APU. A $4.99 item yields 12 APU. This earn path does not use the arcade cap.
Agent talk
Billed talk grants 1 APU per 10 whole billed seconds, capped at 5 APU per talk leg, and only when talk actually costs APW$.
Invite friends
A qualifying referral awards +25 APU, subject to the monthly referral remaining balance. Friends send APU to your node id.
How to spend them
- Spend APW$ in amenity interiors (shop, supermarket, car wash) and other wallet-priced world actions. Prices debit balanceUsd in one server transaction.
- A successful amenity buy also mints floor(priceUsd) × 3 APU, so spending dollars can refill units.
- Spend APU on wallet bundles from the wallet panel (W). Bundles credit APW$ immediately and burn the listed APU cost.
- Larger bundles are more efficient: 150 APU → $10, 300 → $20, 500 → $50, 900 → $100. The $100 bundle costs 9 APU per dollar; the $10 bundle costs 15.
- Press W anytime on the overworld to open inventory, review APU, and redeem a bundle you can afford.
| Bundle | APU cost | APW$ credit | APU per dollar |
|---|---|---|---|
| bundle-10 | 150 APU | $10.00 | 15.0 APU / $ |
| bundle-20 | 300 APU | $20.00 | 15.0 APU / $ |
| bundle-50 | 500 APU | $50.00 | 10.0 APU / $ |
| bundle-100 | 900 APU | $100.00 | 9.0 APU / $ |