::Forum - Are certain skills nearly worthless?

Year 13 Day 350 2:16	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Mao Aadir	I was browsing around the character skills and it seems to me that certain skills aren't worth spending points on due to the fact that those roles will be filled by NPCs rather than the character themselves. Such skills are: Repair: why spend points on repair when you can just get several repairman NPCs to do the work for you while you go about your business? ALL the R&D skills: the draft rules state that r&d can be done similarly: by NPC's. No one is going to waste a whole month in an R&D station researching if their NPCs can do it just as effectively without them. So why spend points on the skills? Am I understanding the rules correctly? Perhaps there should be some sort of bonus to the R&D/repair process if the character who starts the project has a high skill level. ____________

Year 13 Day 350 2:22	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Teyacapan Quetzalxochitl	Repair uses character skills, not npc skills. R&D will use character skills, not npc skills. As do mining, production, and refining.

Year 13 Day 350 2:26	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Mao Aadir	Ah, ok. So then there is no real advantage/disadvantage to spending npc points on those skills either? ____________

Year 13 Day 350 2:33	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Teyacapan Quetzalxochitl	Currently there is no advantage whatsoever. Maybe some day, who knows.

Year 13 Day 350 2:41	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Mao Aadir	That answers my question perfectly. Thanks! ____________

Year 13 Day 350 18:28	Are certain skills nearly worthless?
Ellias Aubec	Well, you can use the repair skill now to repair your ships, unless that feature is broken because of bugs. R&D should hopefully be soon. ____________

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