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
+1 bonus yield when harvesting plants(+3 at max rank)
Harvest plants 1/3rd second faster per rank (1s faster at max rank)
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.
-0.5 seconds per rank to Movement Delays for Strafing, Reverse, and Turning with mechs. Forward movement is never modified. Basically you get significantly improved maneuverability with mechs.(-1.5 seconds at max rank)
Occupational Skills(Science)
Research
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Xenobotany
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Xenoarchaeology
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Xenobiology
+2.5%/rank to Surgery Success Chances when performing surgery on a character of a different species than your own.,
+5%/rank 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,
+1 butchering products/rank 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
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