Payment and credits

This guide cover some very basic features of the credit break down menu and the payment options, This guide starts from the “Current game page”

The 'Credits menu' can be accessed on the upper right of the 'Current game page'

• Credit Incomes and Outgoing
• Detail credit breakdown
• Buying Credits

Credits breakdown menu

To view credit breakdowns:

1. Open the 'Credits menu'

2. Open the pull down for "Latest details"

When open, you will see all the places you have spent credits, earned credits or used free turns.

As you can see in the examples:

• Daily free turns - Displays the amount of free turns you have remaining for the Story Teller model you have selected
• Current credit total - The total amount of credits you have available to spend
• Including bonus credits - How many credits in the 'Current credit total' are 'Bonus Credits'
• Latest details - Expands down to show the last 10 credit and spend interactions (Bonus credits earned, World creation cost, Turn cost, Free turns spent)
• Each can be expanded further to reveal more details.

Credit Incomes and Outgoing

Using the pull downs, you can see the details of each interaction

In the example picture:

1. Represents your new credit balance after the particular interaction, either spent or earned

2. Shows how many bonus credits each individual world has earned you

3. Shows you the total bonus credits from the interaction - This is coded green

4. Shows the cost of world creation, underneath is the name of the world created

5. Shows the 0 Credit cost from using a free turn

6. Confirms this was a daily free turn on a given world

Detail credit breakdown

You can find a more detailed breakdown of the costs of your turn by expanding the drop-down (1.) and then clicking on 'Cost breakdown' (2.).

3. Shows the cost of all the 'Inputs' made to the Storyteller AI

• Instructions - The cost of all the words in the instructions of the game sent to the storyteller AI
• Keyword Blocks - The cost of any 'Keyword Instruction Blocks' that also got sent to the storyteller AI
• Tracked item - The cost of sending the contents of tracked items to the storyteller AI
• Short-term memory - The cost of all the 'Short-term memory' sent to the storyteller AI
• Long-term memory - The cost of the 'Long-term memory' sent to the storyteller AI
• Everything else - Who know what this is?

4. Shows the cost of everything that the Storyteller AI sends back to IW and you, and any work it did.

• Thinking - Not shown here, but if using a thinking model it will be displayed here
• Evaluating action - The cost of the evaluation stage, based on the Evaluation Instructions
• Main text - The cost of producing the Outcome Text - The main bit of the story you read
• Secret info - The cost of producing all the text in Secret info - The hidden bit at the end of a turn
• Tracked items - The cost of rewriting any changed tracked items
• Everything else - Who knows, IW special sauce

5. Shows the cost of producing any images via the image generator

• The amount of images produced and how much they all cost in total

6. Shows the total summed cost of the turn

Buying Credits

Starting from the Credits Menu again, click the add credits button (1.) and then any of the credit options you would like to purchase (2.). The list continues down in increasing increments of credits. Select the payment type you would like to use, at the payment amount you would like.

Once the payment type is selected, you will be taken to an external website to handle the payment, IW does not handle the payment it's self.