View source for Experience & Talent Points

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'''Experience is gained by journeying through Europa, and can be used to pick [[Talents]], powerful buffs that are unique to each [[Jobs|Job]].'''

Experience can be gained in three ways:
*Completing '''[[Missions]]'''
*'''[[Commendation]]s and [[Medal]]s'''
*Various '''[[Talents]]'''

==Experience per Talent Point==
Required experience begins at 450 points for 1 talent, then increases by 500 experience for each point earned, as can be seen in the following table:
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="min-width:300px"
|+ XP per level table
|-
!Talent<br>Points
!Required<br>Experience
!Total Required<br>Experience
|-
|1
|450
|450
|-
|2
|950
|1400
|-
|3
|1450
|2850
|-
|4
|1950
|4800
|-
|5
|2450
|7250
|-
|6
|2950
|10200
|-
|7
|3450
|13650
|-
|8
|3950
|17600
|-
|9
|4450
|22050
|-
|10
|4950
|27000
|-
|11
|5450
|32450
|-
|12
|5950
|38400
|-
|13
|6450
|44850
|-
|14
|6950
|51800
|-
|15
|7450
|59250
|-
|16
|7950
|67200
|-
|17
|8450
|75650
|-
|18
|8950
|84600
|-
|19
|9450
|94050
|-
|20
|9950
|104000
|-
|21
|10450
|114450
|-
|22
|10950
|125400
|-
|23
|11450
|136850
|-
|24
|11950
|148800
|}

==Missions==
At the end of a level, all members of the crew will gain experience from any completed missions. Experience gain from completing missions depends on how much money the mission gives, and the difficulty of the level. Level missions - such as reactivating a beacon station or killing an abyss creature - give experience just the same as a mission from an outpost. Any bonus money earned from talents like [[Bounty Hunter]] does not count towards this base XP amount.

The formula for base experience gain is as follows: <code>Experience = Money * 0.09 * (1 + (Level Diff. / 100))</code>

==Commendations & Medals==
These are consumable items which give experience when used. Only the recipient of the medal receives the experience.

'''Commendations''' give 275 experience, while '''Medals''' give 550 experience.<br>
These items are given to captains with the [[Commendations]] and [[Figurehead]] talents, or can be purchased from some outposts at level difficulties above 40 and 65 respectively.

==Talents==
Each [[Jobs|'''Job''']] has several '''[[Talents]]''' that can increase experience. Some talents give an instant experience boost, and others increase experience gained by a percentage amount.

Mission experience may be increased by the effects of talents. Talents like [[Camaraderie]] increase all mission experience, but talents like [[Logistics Expert]] only increase mission experience from their relevant missions.

{{RelatedTalents
|Bounty Hunter|Logistics Expert|Camaraderie|Protect and Serve|War Stories|Bootcamp|By the Book|Health Insurance|Nobody Important Dies|Junction Junkie|Station Engineer|Machine Maniac|Salvage Crew|Mailman|Playing Catchup|Peer Learning|
}}

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==Talent practicality==
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XP boosting talents themselves cost a talent point, so they should be seen as an ''investment'' that should pay off later. However, one should ask themselves whether they will pay off at all?

Let's consider a [[Protect and Serve]] talent that gives an extra 15% experience upon completion of an escort mission (the exact mission type eligible for the boost does not matter). Taking this talent would increase the cost of ''all'' further talents by 500XP, so for the talent to be worth it, it needs to provide at least 500XP *per level*. If we assume - very optimistically - that we would only do Escort missions, and thus all the experience would enjoy a 15% boost, then we would need <code> experience for level up / 1.15 > experience for level up - 500</code>, or <code>experience for level up > 500 *1.15/0.15 = 3,884</code>. Looking up 3884XP in the table above we conclude that the talent ''starts'' being profitable at level 8.

Of course, this assumes that 100% of our experience was coming from escort missions. If we only half of our missions are esocrts, then the level of profitability roughly doubles and becomes 16. If we spread evenly across 3 mission types, the profitability threshold rises to level 24 (the maximum one), and even worse after that

The latter concern does not apply to xp boosts not dependent on mission type such as [[Nobody Important Dies]] or [[Bootcamp]], however with their bonus XP factor at only 7.5% they still pay off only after level 16.

However, in the above we neglected to account for the initial XP required get the original skill point. And the "talent starts becoming profitable" phrase only means that ''future'' levels would be positives on XP balance, but neglects to account for the "debt" accumulated to getting there.

A bit more careful math shows that 15% bonys talents "pay off" their investment only by level 15 in ideal circumstances, and 7.5% bonus ones - by level 28. Which implies that none of those are probably worth taking in practice. See the following table for illustration, and note that total xp + bonus needs to be higher than the *next* level without bonus to be "worth it":

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="min-width:400px"
|+ expanded XP per level table 
|-
!Talent<br>Points
!Required<br>Experience
!Total Required Experience
!Total Required Experience<br>with +15% bonus
!Total Required Experience<br>with +7.5% bonus
|-
|1  ||  450  ||  450  ||  391  ||  418
|-
|2  ||  950  ||  1400  ||  1217  ||  1302
|-
|3  ||  1450  ||  2850  ||  2478  ||  2651
|-
|4  ||  1950  ||  4800  ||  4173  ||  4465
|-
|5  ||  2450  ||  7250  ||  6304  ||  6744
|-
|6  ||  2950  ||  10200  ||  8869  ||  9488
|-
|7  ||  3450  ||  13650  ||  11869  ||  12697
|-
|8  ||  3950  ||  17600  ||  15304  ||  16372
|-
|9  ||  4450  ||  22050  ||  19173  ||  20511
|-
|10  ||  4950  ||  27000  ||  23478  ||  25116
|-
|11  ||  5450  ||  32450  ||  28217  ||  30186
|-
|12  ||  5950  ||  38400  ||  33391  ||  35720
|-
|13  ||  6450  ||  44850  ||  39000  ||  41720
|-
|14  ||  6950
|style="background:darkblue"|  51800  ||  45043  ||  48186
|-
|15  ||  7450  ||  59250
|style="background:darkblue"|  51521  ||  55116
|-
|16  ||  7950  ||  67200  ||  58434  ||  62511
|-
|17  ||  8450  ||  75650  ||  65782  ||  70372
|-
|18  ||  8950  ||  84600  ||  73565  ||  78697
|-
|19  ||  9450  ||  94050  ||  81782  ||  87488
|-
|20  ||  9950  ||  104000  ||  90434  ||  96744
|-
|21  ||  10450  ||  114450  ||  99521  ||  106465
|-
|22  ||  10950  ||  125400  ||  109043  ||  116651
|-
|23  ||  11450  ||  136850  ||  119000  ||  127302
|-
|24  ||  11950  ||  148800  ||  129391  ||  138418
|-
|25  ||  12450  ||  161250  ||  140217  ||  150000
|-
|26  ||  12950  ||  174200  ||  151478  ||  162046
|-
|27  ||  13450
|style="background:darkred"|  187650  ||  163173  ||  174558
|-
|28  ||  13950  ||  201600  ||  175304
|style="background:darkred"|  187534
|-
|29  ||  14450  ||  216050  ||  187869  ||  200976
|-
|30  ||  14950  ||  231000  ||  200869  ||  214883
|-
|31  ||  15450  ||  246450  ||  214304  ||  229255
|-
|32  ||  15950  ||  262400  ||  228173  ||  244093
|-
|33  ||  16450  ||  278850  ||  242478  ||  259395
|-
|34  ||  16950  ||  295800  ||  257217  ||  275162
|-
|35  ||  17450  ||  313250  ||  272391  ||  291395
|}


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