After each event you attend, you gain 1 Credit. Credits are used to purchase new skills.
You can only spend Credits on your Background Skill Sets, or individual skills in the Prospectus.
In the Prospectus, you can either;
- Spend Credits to learn one advanced skill in one of your starting three modules
- Spend Credits to learn one basic skill in a new module
Each individual skill learned this way costs 1 Credit unless specified otherwise.
From an IC point of view, your character returns to a Jaegerhaus between events in order to continue their study, which is how they learn their new skills ahead of the next event.
You can also spend a Credit if you have a Greater Inventor Slot in use and wish to speed up progress on your research – as if forgoing your classes in favour of your thesis.
Progression is slow, which reflects your field work slowing down your studies and why you can only learn one skill at a time following character creation from the Prospectus.
Your Background skills are attained faster as you are a ‘specialist’ in that area and can pick up those skills more easily.
Remember that you can only learn the advanced skills of a module by selecting them from your starting three modules.
You can bank Credits and decide how to purchase them later.