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Since new pilots are often told they need 'good support skills' to fly such-and-such an expensive ship, without being told exactly what those skills are, this page attempts to suggest what training qualifies as 'good' in different circumstances. (Wish us luck!) This page also lists some particular categories of support skills for ease of reference, and contains links to other lists of support skills on this wiki.

== The 80/20 Rule of Skill Training ==

Of particular importance to new characters is the concept of the 80/20 rule, which is as follows: you'll receive 80% of the benefit from the first 20% of the training. This is based on the exponential increase of training time as you train a skill. You can train the first four levels of a skill and receive 80% of the benefits in roughly 1/4 the time it'll take to train the last level (or 1/5 of the time it would take to train from zero to five). This means it's typically most beneficial, though there are always exceptions, to train multiple skills to level four before going back through and bringing them up to level five. There are some skills you may never bring to level five as they're simply too time intensive for too little benefit.

== Expectations ==

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 Since new pilots are often told they need 'good support skills' to fly such-and-such an expensive ship, without being told exactly what those skills are, this page attempts to suggest what training qualifies as 'good' in different circumstances. (Wish us luck!) This page also lists some particular categories of support skills for ease of reference, and contains links to other lists of support skills on this wiki.
+== The 80/20 Rule of Skill Training ==
+Of particular importance to new characters is the concept of the 80/20 rule, which is as follows: you'll receive 80% of the benefit from the first 20% of the training. This is based on the exponential increase of training time as you train a skill. You can train the first four levels of a skill and receive 80% of the benefits in roughly 1/4 the time it'll take to train the last level (or 1/5 of the time it would take to train from zero to five). This means it's typically most beneficial, though there are always exceptions, to train multiple skills to level four before going back through and bringing them up to level five. There are some skills you may never bring to level five as they're simply too time intensive for too little benefit.
 == Expectations ==