Guide to Skills

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Skills Overview

Skills are divided into four ranks, Unfamiliar, Familiar, Trained, Professional with an increasing cost associated with the skill as you buy into higher ranks. You are given eight skill points in each category, Service, Occupational, and Combat. Occupational Skills have been divided here for easier reference, and are reflected as a single group in the skill selection screen.

Service Skills

Bartending

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Cooking

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Gardening

0/+1/+2/+3 bonus yield when harvesting plants

0/ 1/3rd sec/ 2/3rd sec/ 1 sec faster Harvesting plants

Ministry

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Carousing

0%/+5%/+10%/+15% per rank to toxin/alcohol removal rate for the user's Liver.

Occupational Skills(Engineering)

Electrical Engineering

Having less than TRAINED in this skill causes a 10 second delay when interacting with heavy electrical equipment such as emitters.

Having the PROFESSIONAL rank in this skill allows you to see what each wire does when hacking machines.

Mechanical Engineering

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Atmospheric Systems

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Reactor Systems

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Occupational Skills(Medical)

Medicine

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Surgery

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Pharmacology

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Anatomy

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Forensics

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Occupational Skills(Operations

Robotics

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Pilot: Spacecraft

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Pilot: Exosuits

Being Untrained in Pilot: Mechs causes every mech movement input to have a 10% chance to change into a random different direction.

Being Untrained in Pilot: Mechs causes a 5 Second delay when powering up a mech.

0/-0.5 secs/-1 secs/-1.5 secs to Movement Delays for Strafing, Reverse, and Turning with mechs. Forward movement is never modified. Basically you get significantly improved maneuverability with mechs.

Occupational Skills(Science)

Research

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Xenobotany

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Xenoarchaeology

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Xenobiology

0%/+2.5%/+5%/+7.5% to Surgery Success Chances when performing surgery on a character of a different species than your own.,

0%/+5%/+10%/+15% to Surgery Speed when performing surgery on a character of a different species than your own.,

0%/+10%/+15%/+20% bonus melee damage When attacking any Xenofauna,

0/+1/+2/+3 butchering products when butchering any Xenofauna

Combat Skills

Unarmed Combat

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Armed Combat

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Firearms

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Leadership

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Tenacity

0/+0.1/+0.2/+0.3 Bonus minimum heart efficiency

0/+1.25/+2.5/+3.75 Bonus effective blood volume

0/+0.05/+0.1/+0.15 Bonus Pulse

0/+0.075/+0.15/+0.225 Bonus Bleed resist

0/+0.0375/+0.075/+0.1125 Bonus Arterial resist