By a guess (and a bit naive but it happened to me the first time I played), there's a difference between leveling a skill and recovering a skill.
Doing activities only levels up your skills, so you can hold more points.
But as far as I know, the only way to actually recover points is by sleeping while having an Idol from the mall in your inventory, or going to the cinema with Mom.
A bit more information on skills:
- The max level is 20.
- You need to raise your efforts after certain levels:
- For study/running/dancing: do it harder
- For cards/fighting: climb the ladder
- If I got it right, you are meant to fail/lose certain activities on certain days no matter what, so rollback and try another day.
- There's this weird bug where leveling up will skip one or two points, but if you just keep on leveling it should fix on its own.
- For recovering, there are two ways, getting an Idol or going to the cinema with Mom:
- You get Idols at the mall, the first one is free.
- Each Idol recovers stats in different ways.
- The best Idol will give you back 5 points on each stat per day after sleeping, it cost's $200, it only takes three days of two shifts at the job to get $280, so just go for it.
- Watching horror, action or romance movies at the cinema will recover 4 points on stamina, strength, and charisma respectively.
If you have tried all of the above and still have the problem, then congratulations, you may have found a bug.
First of all thank you for your detailed answer. Although i am playing this game almost from the begining of this project, it is first time for me to face with this kind of trouble. Until the previous update, recovering a skill can only be made by certain activities such as playing card games to gain luck points, beating people at fight club to gain strength points etc... After your explanation, i understood that, it seems game mechanic has already been changed without any special warning.
At the other hand, i have another problem about relation points. Although i have 10 (max) relationship points for Mom, i can not enter her room and a pop up message warns me that, i need 9 relation points for Mom to be able to enter her room !!! ???
Let me answer and ask some questions about your previously explained points as following;
2- For cards/fighting: climb the ladder
Sorry but i can not understand this explanation. Where can i find a ladder to climb ?
3- If I got it right, you are meant to fail/lose certain activities on certain days no matter what, so rollback and try another day.
Thank you for this tip however i am actually doing the same thing. Although i made certain activties successfully (without fail or lose ) , couldn't able to gain skill points.
4- There's this weird bug where leveling up will skip one or two points, but if you just keep on leveling it should fix on its own.
Most probably this bug is what i have crushed at the moment. It is become really boring when doing activities without recovering any skill points at each day.
5- For recovering, there are two ways, getting an Idol or going to the cinema with Mom:
- You get Idols at the mall, the first one is free.
- Each Idol recovers stats in different ways.
- The best Idol will give you back 5 points on each stat per day after sleeping, it cost's $200, it only takes three days of two shifts at the job to get $280, so just go for it.
- Watching horror, action or romance movies at the cinema will recover 4 points on stamina, strength, and charisma respectively.
Like i said before, it seems mechanic of recovering skill points has been changed... Well, i have no way but to buy Idols...
Anyway, i appreciate with your kind answer and detailed explanation.
Thank you...
