Certification

Certifications are a bit like occupations. They allow you to diversify the skills your character has access to without the obligation of an occupation. Characters can have multiple occupations, with the current suggested cap at 5 certifications without skill decay.

Each certification has a cap at three levels. At the first level, you may select one skill. For each increase in skill, you may select another and replace a skill with a related skill (as with occupations, the latter is optional).

Starting with the 6th certification, the new level cap for your character becomes 2 and you must remove one of three skills from all other certifications. At the ninth skill, your character may only have one skill per occupation.

If you wish to lose an entire certification you may have the memory of the certification erased or removed (suppression will not work). If any of the applicable skills are not used or practiced, the level of the certification will reduce naturally by one every two years.

Many occupations and certifications overlap heavily and will thus draw from the same pools. However, some pools are certification only.

Here is the current, untested rate of growth for certifications: Like with occupations, these points are cumulative.