Basic question about crew skills

[Hazduhr]

Started playing a couple of days ago, as free player so far, maybe I'm willing to upgrade but haven't yet.

It says about anywhere that you can have 3 different crew skills, but how do you unlock them? Can different crew member also learn different skills? Currently it shows the same skill, the one I picked 1st, for each of them. Didn't want to try to delete it because I don't want to lose the progress.

So how does it work, can someone help me? Or do I have to complete the story 1st? I'm level 36 now.

[Ironwu]

You can have 1 crafting skill maximum. You can have from 1 to 3 gathering / mission skills maximum. You can have a total of 3 skills maximum.

Your entire companion roster is available to run Crew Skill Missions. You MUST run missions to get the items from crafting and mission skills. You can gather or run missions for mats from gathering skills.

The number of your crew that can be doing a Crew Skill mission will start at 4 and go up to 8.

Missions cost credits. Missions have various ranks. To progress beyond 600 up to 700 skill in a Crew Skill will require 250k credits for each skill you wish to advance.

You learn skills by visiting Crew Skill Trainers on the Fleet (and some Planets). No cost to learn the skills.

Good Luck!

[Ironwu]

Also, you must purchase the 'recipes' for your Crafting skill from the trainer. Note that the crafting skills generally have synergy with a gathering and a mission skill. So choose wisely.

[Qrazy]

You also need to sub to have access to all 3 crew skills.

[Ironwu]

引用自 Qrazy：

You also need to sub to have access to all 3 crew skills.

Yes, trying to effectively craft as a F2P will be a real exercise in patience and frustration. The F2P in SWTOR really should be viewed as a limited free trial. It is really not a viable mode for serious play for the average MMO gamer.

[Berserkr]

引用自 Ironwu：

The number of your crew that can be doing a Crew Skill mission will start at 4 and go up to 8.

f2p/preferrred can only queue up a max of 3 companions doing crew skills or craftings at a time and only 1 crafting per for 3 max at a time, current subs can queue up to a max of 8 companions doing something and each can craft 5 things queued up in a row for 40 things queued up to craft
I believe it's at level 26 or 27 you can deploy your 3rd companion doing something, till then it's max 2 deployed

[NavFamG]

You also need to sub to have access to all 3 crew skills.

You can also buy an unlock for the 3rd skill if you don't wish to sub. In fact if you wish to keep the 3rd from the sub you'd need to buy the unlock.

[NavFamG]

Before you pick check out the wiki so you can see which one's work together as each craft has 2 gathers that feed into it.

If you don't wish to craft, you can use the 2 gathering skills to collect stuff to sell to the vendors.

I've found slicing (for built up areas) and bio (for out of town) are really good at finding stuff to collect, where something like investigation is only done via the crew skill panel.

*** Also talk to ALL the NPC's as you'll get xp from each you talk to.