Like most branch servers, Empire in Flames offers additional housing options not available on Basilisk - and a few not available on any other branch server.
(Image Designer, Dancer, and Musician together reach 250 points, for example.) Skillpoints have been adjusted to allow a player to pickup approximately 2 1/2 trees, with some exceptions. They, too, require XP to level however, all skills can be learned from their novice box up. Skills, on the other hand, require skillpoints and can be freely mix-and-matched.
Professions offer enhancement, access to specialized skills like slicing, vendors, creature harvesting, and so forth. Professions include:Ībilities acquired from professions can be used with any weapon, or even unarmed. However, a player can only have ONE profession at a time. Professions cost no skill points (though they require XP to level). Trees are categorized as 'professions' and 'skills.' Empire in Flames offers a new approach to the system - one that combines the best of the ideas of the NGE and pre-CU.