Careers and Abilities

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Player Abilities

Player Traits

Player Traits are racial specific abilities that provide passive buffs or active skills to your character. Different races are given different traits, as well as allowing for some traits of the player's choosing during character creation.

Player Skills

Player Skills are upgradeable skills that provide passive buffs to Bridge Officer Skills, Kit abilities, Player Leveled Abilities and other skills.

Player Skills of high enough levels also unlock the ability to train Bridge Officers corresponding Bridge Officer Skills.

• General Skills

All playable characters have access to these skills. General Player Skills tend to relate to Space and Starship abilities.

• Engineering Career Skills

Only Engineering Career playable characters have access to these skills.

• Science Career Skills

Only Science Career playable characters have access to these skills.

• Tactical Career Skills

Only Tactical Career playable characters have access to these skills.

While they may be organized in a vaguely tree-like fashion in the game, you do not need any of the previous skills in a 'branch' to train a later one. An example would be Starship Weapon Systems Maintenance and Starship Weapon Systems Performance. While they are in the same 'branch', you do not need to invest points in one before you can do the other. You only need to be the appropriate rank, and have enough points.

Player Leveled Abilities

Player Abilities are earned as you level up. You earn three per rank, one universal ability that everyone gets, one ground ability dependent on your chosen career, and one space ability dependent on your chosen career.

You earn universal abilities at levels 3, 13, 23, etc. You earn ground abilities at levels 5, 15, 25, etc. You earn space abilities at levels 8, 18, 28, etc.

These abilities are earned as you spend your skill points. While your level may show Level 5, you will not unlock these leveled abilities until you have spent the corresponding skill points.

Bridge Officer Abilities

Bridge Officer Traits

Bridge Officer Traits are racial specific abilities that provide passive buffs or active skills to your a Bridge Officer.

Bridge Officer Abilities

Bridge Officer Skills are trainable, upgradeable, activate-able abilities.