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

Users of this skill can create mixed drinks of varying quality, which provide a long lasting morale bonus to anyone who consumes them. This skill is activated by first mixing a drink in a Drink Mixer, then pressing Z to shake it. Alternatively, drinks can be stirred with a spoon by clicking on a completed drink.

Unfamiliar: Drinks you produce have no effect.

Familiar: Drinks you produce are slightly higher quality.

Trained: Drinks you produce are of moderately higher quality.

Professional: Drinks you produce are of significantly higher quality.

Cooking

Users of this skill gain bonuses when harvesting parts from animals.

Unfamiliar: You have no modifiers from cooking.

Familiar: You gain +1 product when butchering any animal.

Trained: You gain +2 products when butchering any animal.

Professional: You gain +3 products when butchering any animal.

Gardening

Users of this skill gain bonuses when harvesting grown plants.

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

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

Resolve

Represents a character's mental resilience, emotional stability, and ability to remain steadfast under stress.

Characters with greater Resolve have a permanent passive bonus to their effective morale value. This can provide small bonuses to a variety of interactions.

This morale bonus can also act as a pool of resistance towards psychic damage. This skill does nothing for any species which does not interact with Morale.

0/+5/+10/+15 passive permanent bonus of morale points

Carousing

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

Ministry

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

Testing

Atmospheric Systems

Testing

Reactor Systems

Testing

Occupational Skills(Medical)

Medicine

Testing

Surgery

Testing

Pharmacology

Testing

Anatomy

Testing

Forensics

Testing

Occupational Skills(Operations

Robotics

Testing

Pilot: Spacecraft

Testing

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. This results in significantly improved maneuverability with mechs.

Conditioning

Governs a character's ability to pick up, drag, and throw heavy objects, particularly crates and people. By default, most characters can comfortably lift or drag 1.25x their body weight without penalty. This includes determining how heavy a character you can fireman carry, and with how much slowdown. Without the relevant education, you may only reach the Professional level.

Human Lift Breakpoints: Rank 1: 90kg (lift a Skrell, Human, Offworlder, M'sai, KA, or ZA)

Rank 2: 112.5kg (Lift a Zhan, Shell, or Diona Coeus)

Rank 3: 135kg (Lift a (Non-Industrial) IPC, Unathi)

Rank 4: 157.5kg (No new breakpoints, though you get less a movespeed penalty from lugging around any of the above)

Can Never Lift: Industrial, Bullwark, Diona, Vaurca Ta'

Zhan Tajara Lift Breakpoints: Rank 1: 116kg (Skrell, Human, Offworlder, M'sai, Ka, Za, Zhan, Shell, or Diona Coeus)

Rank 2: 145kg (Non-Industrial IPC, Unathi)

Rank 3: 174kg (No new breakpoints, though you get less penalties from the above)

Rank 4: 203kg (Juuuust barely lift an Industrial or Diona with heavy slowdown)

Occupational Skills(Science)

Research

Testing

Xenobotany

Testing

Xenoarchaeology

Testing

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

Testing

Armed Combat

Testing

Firearms

Testing

Leadership

Testing

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