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** [[Cloaking]]: Skill at using Cloaking devices (allows the use of cloaking devices). 10% reduction in targeting delay after uncloaking per skill level. | ** [[Cloaking]]: Skill at using Cloaking devices (allows the use of cloaking devices). 10% reduction in targeting delay after uncloaking per skill level. | ||
{{expansion past | Before the Ascension update of 2016/11/15, new pilots required at least a day of training to fit and use probe launchers and analyzer modules. }} | {{expansion past | Before the Ascension update of 2016/11/15, new pilots required at least a day of training to fit and use probe launchers and analyzer modules. }} | ||
The basic skills for exploration are now (as of [[Expansions#Ascension|Ascension]]) part of the starting skill set, and indeed cannot be trained further (except for Racial Frigate IV) without upgrading clone state to Omega. New pilots can now fit and undock in a basic exploration frigate, and begin probing and data-mining on day one of their careers. | |||
The basic skills for exploration are now (as of [[Expansions#Ascension|Ascension]]) part of the starting skill set, and indeed cannot be trained further (except for Racial Frigate IV) without upgrading clone state to Omega. New pilots can now fit and undock in a basic exploration frigate, and begin probing and data-mining, on day one of their careers. | |||
Nonetheless, for pilots who ''do'' have Omega status, the rewards of additional training are considerable: additional training in the probing skills will greatly reduce the time required to scan down a signature, and the increases in virus strength and coherence gained by training the data-mining skills can make it much less likely that the pilot will fail a hack once the site has been reached. Training [[Cloaking]] allows the pilot to probe signatures in dangerous space with relative safety and (at level III) to fit the Improved Cloaking Device II and thus use the [[Cloak trick]] to increase the chances of successfully making it to market with the loot. | Nonetheless, for pilots who ''do'' have Omega status, the rewards of additional training are considerable: additional training in the probing skills will greatly reduce the time required to scan down a signature, and the increases in virus strength and coherence gained by training the data-mining skills can make it much less likely that the pilot will fail a hack once the site has been reached. Training [[Cloaking]] allows the pilot to probe signatures in dangerous space with relative safety and (at level III) to fit the Improved Cloaking Device II and thus use the [[Cloak trick]] to increase the chances of successfully making it to market with the loot. | ||
The suggested training plans concentrate on improving the pilot's Scan Probe strength and Virus Coherence initially, and on enabling the use of advance piloting techniques to improve survivability in hostile space. Without a fairly high Scan Probe strength, the improvements in scan time and deviation gained by training Astrometric Pinpointing and Astrometric Acquisition make little or no noticeable difference. | |||
== Improved Exploration skills == | == Improved Exploration skills == | ||