Assay

Your character's assay skill is used to examine core samples and determine the quality a plot, or APN, in several categories...

• Rare/precious minerals (Grade A)
• Fertility
• Natural material (Grade C)
• Fuel ore

This skill improves as it is used, and can be tested at the Skills Assessment Office in Deois.

There are several possible values to each assayed category...

• Trace
• Poor
• Fair
• Good
• Very Good
• Excellent

In the case of fertility, a good value will only affect the field crops of a farm built on that location. Greenhouses and Hydroponics will produce the same amount of food regardless of fertility.