• Learning Level 4

After you have reached level 4 on Analytical Mind, Intelligence, Instant Recall, Memory, and Learning, you can then focus on training up your other attribute skills - Spatial Awareness (Perception), Iron Will (Willpower) and Empathy (Charisma) - as is ap pro priate for your intended career path.

Implants
Implants can also raise your base attributes and save you significant training time. A variety of implants are available on the market or through agent missions. They can raise an attribute by 1 (called "Limited" implants), 2 ("Limited - Beta"), 3 ("Basic") or 4 ("Standard") points. At the moment it is possible to get basic implants which boost the main attributes by +3 points per attribute or standard implants which add +4. There are five types of implants available covering the 5 main attributes areas:

• Cybernetic Subprocessor (affects Intelligence)
• Memory Augmentation (affects Memory)
• Occular Filter (affects Perception)
• Neural Boost (affects Willpower)
• Social Adaptation Chip (affects Charisma)

Using an implant requires some skill in Cybernetics (level 1 for Basic, level 3 for Limited and Limited - Beta, and level 4 for Standard implants). The Cybernetics skill requires Science level 3 before you can begin to train it. (( Figure out which is correct and change this and the previous paragraph accordingly; is the progression "basic" -> "limited" -> "limited - beta" -> "standard" or is it "limited" -> "limited -beta" -> "basic" -> "standard"? Right now these two paragraphs disagree on the right progression. ))

You can only plug in one implant per attribute. Implants are destroyed if you try and remove them from your head, so once you have plugged it in it cannot be taken off and used by anyone else.

General Tips

• Try and maximize your attributes in any areas where you will be doing lots of training. For example, Navigation skills all have Intelligence as their primary attribute - so if you are about to embark on training all your Navigation skills to level four or five, then boosting your Intelligence attribute will save you substantial amounts of time.

• Please bear in mind that training the entire "Learning" category attributes skills does take time. So in the short term it can put you behind other players who train more immediately practical skills. However, investing the time to in train "Learning" category skills early will pay off in the medium and long term. In the short run people starting at the same time may be able to out fly and out shoot you, but later on you might be hours or even days ahead of them in training.