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 starts out very poorly but improves as it is used, and can be tested at the Skills Assessment Office in Deois. You should test your skills regularly, you may have to take your results with a grain of salt.

Consider hiring a seasoned "appraiser" unless you want to commit the time learning on your own

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.