Most helpful skills?

[zircher]

Indeed. You have to become an active scrap hound and buy a lot of gear just for the purpose of scrapping it. I mentioned in another post that I like to have two engineers on the team since I can level one up as the build it better guy and the other as the component efficiency dude.

[Waltorious]

Originally Posted by zircher

Indeed. You have to become an active scrap hound and buy a lot of gear just for the purpose of scrapping it. I mentioned in another post that I like to have two engineers on the team since I can level one up as the build it better guy and the other as the component efficiency dude.

Strangely, I never thought of buying things just to disassemble them. That's probably a smart idea! It would provide both crafting parts and crafting skill quickly.

By the way, the manual mentions that different officer classes gain experience in different ways, i.e. science officers gain experience by collecting data, social officers gain experience by trading and commerce, etc. But it doesn't list every class. Does anyone know how engineering officers gain experience? Because it seemed like mine were slow to level up, compared to other officers in my crew.

[Kazeto]

Engineering officers get experience when you craft or disassemble things. But it is really slow unless you are being a scrap hound.

Alternatively, you could just take all of your officers for a field trip on some planet (or for multiple field trips). That gives them all experience for killing things, and is probably the quickest way of getting it if you are willing to risk it (although, with how numerous your away team is then, it requires messing up really badly for your officers to die).