About skilling

Skills increase everytime a skill event occurs. Each skill has different skill events that increase the skill, and a skill event may additionally be worthy or unworthy.

Skill events

Tactics

Worthy

• NPC fires one laser shot at pilot, $skill_{player} \lt skill_{npc}$
• NPC fires one missile at pilot, $skill_{player} \lt skill_{npc}$
• Pilot lands one critical hit with laser against NPC
• Pilot lands one critical hit with missile against NPC

Unworthy

• NPC fires one laser shot at pilot, $skill_{player} \ge skill_{npc}$
• NPC fires one missile at pilot, $skill_{player} \ge skill_{npc}$

Hit accuracy

Maneuver

Weaponry

Engineering

Skill gain

Everytime a worthy skill event occurs, the respective skill will increase by the following amount (where s is the player's current skill level):

$skillgain_{worthy}\left(s\right)=\ \frac{1-\frac{\left(\operatorname{floor}\left(s\right)\right)}{200}}{\operatorname{floor}\left(s\right)^{2}}$

The formula for unworthy skill gains is not known, but the best known approximation is: 

$skillgain_{unworthy}\left(s, cap\right)=\frac{skillgain_{worthy}(s)}{(s - cap + 1)^{1.3}}$

where cap is the skill cap of the NPC being targeted.