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| Experience (XP) Types Added together, these form your Overall Level (OL) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Combat | Explore | Trade |
Overview
Explore experience is primarily acquired by discovering new navigation points (aka "navs" or "navpoints"), Jobs, and for Explorer-class pilots, prospecting.
When you have accumulated enough points to bring your blue-colored explore bar up to 100% you will:
- advance to the next explore level
- gain a Skill Point(s) (used to upgrade any of your skills)
- reset your explore bar to zero
As your Explore level increases, the number of experience points needed to reach 100% also increases. The maximum explore level is 50. After level 50, you can still earn explore experience points and a skill point per level, but the explore level number will remain at 50.
Key Considerations
- It is possible to get Explore Level 25 by visiting every nav point in the game, but only if you have a perfect route planned out and are willing to take a long time finding them all.
- Some players give 'tours' of the galaxy, where they will fly you around for free. It takes a while, but it is easy explore XP to start out with (2 hours to EL25 if your Tour lead knows their route and you are using 4x L0 new accounts).
- Failing that, make a mining character (Progen Sentinel, Terran Scout, or Jenquai Explorer) and group them with your main while you do mining. The mining will get both characters explore XP and the mining character a large amount of trade XP. Pair this with a moderately defended field, and the alt may get your miner some combat XP too!
- Mining fields that occur at hidden navs or >10K from a nav (IE, you need maybe 6-7KM of scan range to see the nearest roid from a nav) will reward 2-2.5x as much experience when you clear the field as normal ore fields.
- See Prospecting and Prospect Locations for more on this subject.
Gaining Explore XP
There are several ways of gaining Explore Experience:
- Discovering new nav points
- Being grouped with someone who discovers new nav points (the Explore XP generated by the newbie is shared equally with the other group members who have been there before). This is known as "touring". Older pilots may offer to tour newer pilots around the galaxy, which is a mutually beneficial exercise (fastest XP gain).
- Prospecting for resources and valuable objects from hulks (Explorer-class pilots only: JE, PS, TS)
- Certain Missions may give exploration experience points as a mission reward
- take Explore Jobs at a starbase Job Terminal (these are formal contracts and occupy space in your Mission Log).
Skills with an Exploration Level Prerequisite
Your Explore Level (EL) is a prerequisite for the upgrading of particular skills: