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 Job.

Experience can be gained in three ways:

Completing Missions
Commendations and Medals
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:

XP per level table
Talent Points	Required Experience	Total Required 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.

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

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.
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 Job has several Talents that can increase experience. Some talents give an instant experience boost, and others increase experience gained by a percentage amount.

Talent	Tree	Description
Mailman ID: `mailman`	Assistant General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP and 150 bonus money when completing a Cargo mission.
Playing Catchup ID: `playingcatchup`	Assistant General Tier 1	If you are 2 or more levels behind your most highest-leveled crewmember, gain an additional 100% mission experience.
Peer Learning ID: `peerlearning`	Assistant General Tier 2	When completing a mission, give the lowest level crew members 50% bonus XP.
Bounty Hunter ID: `bountyhunter`	Captain General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP and 15% bonus money when completing a Monster or Nest mission.
Logistics Expert ID: `logisticsexpert`	Captain General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP and 15% bonus money when completing a Cargo or Personnel Transport mission.
Camaraderie ID: `camaraderie`	Captain General Tier 2	Whenever you finish a mission without a crewmember dying, your crew gains an additional 20% experience. The deaths of assistants do not count.
Junction Junkie ID: `junctionjunkie`	Engineer General Tier 1	Gain 80 bonus XP when completing a mission in which you repaired at least 5 electrical devices.
Station Engineer ID: `stationengineer`	Engineer General Tier 1	Gain 30% bonus XP when reactivating a Beacon Station.
Machine Maniac ID: `machinemaniac`	Mechanic General Tier 1	Gain 80 bonus XP when completing a mission in which you repaired at least 3 mechanical devices.
Salvage Crew ID: `salvagecrew`	Mechanic General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP when completing a Salvage mission.
Health Insurance ID: `healthinsurance`	Medical Doctor General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP and 15% bonus money when completing an Escort mission.
Nobody Important Dies ID: `nobodyimportantdies`	Medical Doctor General Tier 1	Gain 7.5% bonus XP when completing a mission, if all crewmembers survived. The deaths of assistants do not count.
Protect and Serve ID: `protectandserve`	Security Officer General Tier 1	Gain 15% bonus XP when completing a Escort mission.
War Stories ID: `warstories`	Security Officer General Tier 1	Gain 80 bonus XP when completing a mission in which you killed at least 2 creatures.
Bootcamp ID: `bootcamp`	Security Officer General Tier 2	Whenever you finish a mission without a crewmember dying, you gain an additional 35% experience. The deaths of assistants do not count.
By the Book ID: `bythebook`	Security Officer General Tier 2	Whenever you finish at least one mission, your crew gains an additional 1250 marks and 200 experience for each captured, live enemy human on board your ship, up to a maximum of 2500 marks and 400 experience.

Talent practicality

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 experience for level up / 1.15 > experience for level up - 500, or experience for level up > 500 *1.15/0.15 = 3,884. 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":

Talent Points	Required Experience	Total Required Experience	Total Required Experience with +15% bonus	Total Required Experience 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	51800	45043	48186
15	7450	59250	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	187650	163173	174558
28	13950	201600	175304	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