Since some already asked:
I tried a different approach on getting better skills and attributes. You do not know how to get them to stop people from pre-calculating their careers. You get basic xp every turn, and you will get more xp and options to get skills on the way. Mostly, it depends on what you did so far, but there will also be special events and items, which will give you a boost on a specific field of knowledge. Once somebody aquiered a skill, he will be able to teach the others, but it will take some time, depending on the amount of knowledge the student already collected. After the teaching is done, the student will still have to pay xp to finally acquiere the skill. Some of you are pretty close to get the first options, so just keep playing as fine as you did so far.
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The Mineling game players are closer as those of the Constructling game, since it has been running longer.