Skills

You have 5 different skills you can invest skill points in from experience points you gain from killing players, killing NPCs, mining asteroids, or converting planets for your faction.

Command

The Command skill determines the fleet size that you can lead, it also grants you access to rank 4 ships at level 75 and rank 5 ships at level 100. Additionally, 50 command is necessary to be eligible to join your faction's council.

Piloting

Piloting improves the speed of your ship and its ability t avoid damage. Higher piloting levels allow you to discover further Star Systems on the Starmap which are otherwise rendered invisible.

Engineering

The higher your Engineering skill, the more % shield or hull your ship can repair per “tick”. (A tick is approx 15 seconds of refreshment of movements on the map also the rate of your attacks and actions of both player and NPCs).

Industry

The Industry skill allows you to construct buildings on planets owned by yo ur faction. With higher levels allowing you access to additional building tiers and effectiveness.

Gunnery

The Gunnery skill improves your accuracy and damage with ship weapon systems.