Experience Point

Not to be confused with Expertise, formerly known as Bridge Officer skill points, which are used to upgrade Bridge officer abilities.

Skill points are earned over the course of a character's career in Star Trek Online. Skill points are directly related to a player character's current rank and are required to be earned if the player wishes their character to receive a promotion. Skill points are comparable to "experience" used in other MMORPGs however unlike experience points they are not automatically assigned. Instead the player must manually assign those points on skills. Players are allowed to reset their spent points and redistribute them as they see fit via a respec.

Each character has a balance of skill points, similar to the way any currency in the game works, such as Energy Credits. Skill points are acquired primarily by completing missions. They can also be accrued more slowly by killing players and NPCs of the different factions, in both PvE and PvP.

Note: When a player reaches the skill point cap, any skill points rewarded are automatically converted into bridge officer skill points by the game.

Once a player has gathered enough skill points, they may be spent on increasing the rank of that player's skills. This base value of 1000 increases with rank, and there are nine ranks per skill:

• Lieutenant skills: 1000 points per skill level
• Lieutenant Commander skills: 1500 points per skill level
• Commander skills: 2000 points per skill level
• Captain skills: 2500 points per skill level
• Admiral / General skills: 3000 points per skill level

The skills window for both player skill points and bridge officer points are viewable and spendable in game by pressing the K key on the keyboard.

Levels	Starship Tier	Rank	Rank	Rank	Skill points granted
1-3	Tier 1	Ensign	Warrior	Citizen	33,000
4-9		Lieutenant
10-19	Tier 2	Lieutenant Commander		Centurion	93,000
20-29	Tier 3	Commander		Subcommander	173,000
30-39	Tier 4	Captain		Commander	263,000
40-49	Tier 5	Rear Admiral, Lower Half	Brigadier General	Subadmiral I	313,000
		Rear Admiral, Upper Half	Major General	Subadmiral II	366,000
50		Vice Admiral	Lieutenant General	Vice Admiral

Note

According to this forum post, for each skill point you receive in-game the game server internally records 100 to make sure that small bonuses accumulate correctly.

See also

• Bridge Officer skill points
• Skills
• Rank