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SKILLS
Your skills are displayed at the bottom of your character interface. Each skill
has a series of solid and empty circles under its name; solid circles
represent your current level of knowledge, while empty circles represent
your future capabilities.
To access a skill, drag the icon from your skills list to your Shortcut bar.
Skills you will learn in the future, but do not yet know, will not appear on
this section until they are learned.
When a skill is eligible to be upgraded, a small green arrow appears to
the right of that skill’s box.
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Click on the skill name. A box appears displaying more information on
your skill. If you are eligible to upgrade your skill, an Upgrade button
appears in this box.
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Select the Upgrade button to spend skill points and improve your skill.
As you upgrade skills, you will receive new abilities. For example, the
first level of the Recharge Shields skill allows the player to recharge his
own shields, while level three allows recharging of another player’s
shields.
To swap between active abilities, right-click on the skill’s icon in your
shortcut bar.
You need to select a new ability in order to use it or you will
continue to use a skill’s default (level one) ability, so be sure to
experiment with your skills as you upgrade them!
MISSIONS
Earth & Beyond has a wide range of missions your character can
complete, some given by computer-controlled characters, others by jobs
terminals found in many space stations. To help you remember your
tasks and track your progress, we’ve included a mission journal for you.
To open your mission journal, click the Mission tab at the top of your
character interface. A list of missions, both completed and current, is
stored here.
To obtain more detail about a mission, such as what you’re supposed
to do next, click on it. A new window opens that shows more detailed
information about your current task.
To forfeit a mission just select the forfeit button for that specific
mission and it will be removed from your mission journal.
Mission information automatically scrolls into view as you hold your
mouse over the mission text.
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