Skill point
- Not to be confused with Expertise, formerly known as Bridge Officer skill points, which are used to upgrade Bridge officer abilities.
Skill points are earned over the course of a character's career in Star Trek Online. Skill points are directly related to a player character's current rank and are required to be earned and spent if the player wishes their character to receive a promotion. Skill points are comparable to "experience" used in other MMORPGs however unlike experience points they are not automatically assigned. Instead the player must manually assign those points on skills. Players are allowed to reset their spent points and redistribute them as they see fit via a respec.
Each character has a balance of skill points, similar to the way any currency in the game works, such as Energy Credits. Skill points are acquired primarily by completing missions. They can also be accrued more slowly by killing players and NPCs of the different factions, in both PvE and PvP.
- Note: When a player reaches the skill point cap, any skill points rewarded are automatically converted into bridge officer skill points by the game.
Once a player has gathered enough skill points, they may be spent on increasing the rank of that player's skills. This base value of 1000 increases with rank, and there are nine ranks per skill:
- Lieutenant skills: 1000 points per skill level
- Lieutenant Commander skills: 1500 points per skill level
- Commander skills: 2000 points per skill level
- Captain skills: 2500 points per skill level
- Admiral / General skills: 3000 points per skill level
The skills window for both player skill points and bridge officer points are viewable and spendable in game by pressing the K key on the keyboard.
| Tier | Rank  |
Rank  |
Skill points spent | Skill points need to next rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Ensign | Warrior | 0 | 33,000 |
| Lieutenant | ||||
| Tier 2 | Lieutenant Commander | 33,000 | 60,000 | |
| Tier 3 | Commander | 93,000 | 80,000 | |
| Tier 4 | Captain | 173,000 | 90,000 | |
| Tier 5 | Rear Admiral, Lower Half | Brigadier General | 263,000 | 50,000 |
| Rear Admiral, Upper Half | Major General | 313,000 | 53,000 | |
| Vice Admiral | Lieutenant General | 366,000 | 0 (SKILL CAP) | |
[edit] Note
According to this forum post, for each skill point you receive in-game the game server internally records 100 to make sure that small bonuses accumulate correctly.
