3. Progression

Skills and player level

Players gain experience for nearly any activity in the game, and it levels up the skill it belongs to:

• Pilot, for piloting ships
• Gunner, for dealing damage to enemies
• Munitioneer, for reloading cannons
• Mechanic, for patching up ships in combat
• Sailmaster, for managing the masts
• Fishing, for hauling up resource-laden fish

Experience in any skill also raises your player level, which runs from 1 to 60. Skill levels and player levels reset at the start of each new Pillage War.

An active Pirate Pass multiplies experience while it lasts.

Rating

Players gain Rating by playing Pillage and Deathmatch. There are two: a PvP rating and a PvE one. Rating resets at the end of each war along with everything else.