I read through the QDK manual and i dont quite understand how to set the status variables. It just seems a bit vauge to me. When I go into the status variables, I add Money, but what i dont understand is after i put it in, with a numeric value of 200 it shows a small box in the side of the game with a 200 and thats it, its not an actual value. Help would be more than much appreciated

In the display write something like:

Money - !

In game that will appear as money - 200.

but will that make it a value? and if so how do i take away only a certain value?

Right.You must've heard of algrebra.Its pretty much the same thing.
Theres a "increment/decrement a numeric variable" script command in the variable section.
Don't put % round the var name though.

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To your other question, yes it is a value.The value of the variable is 200.Variables are pretty flexible, and you will learn that they are a key part of ASL programming (and QDK stuff).
You can set variables as well as taking away and adding on.So, if you had 2 variables, a and b, and b has the value of 12, you can set a to %b% * 3, which would give you 36.

ok, thanks, i get it now.