If you double up on career skills on creation, for example an Ace: Pilot specialization skills are all covered under the Ace career. Do you get ranks in skills you double up on? Or is it just caput.

at character creation your max ranks is 2 in any skill.

If you double up on career skills on creation, for example an Ace: Pilot specialization skills are all covered under the Ace career. Do you get ranks in skills you double up on? Or is it just caput.

During character creation you may choose 4 of your "Career" Skills to have ranks in, then you choose 2 of the "Specialisation" skills to have ranks in. If you choose the same skill twice you will have 2 ranks in that skill. So you have 6 free ranks of skill training before any starting XP is spent.

After character creation ALL the skills listed under your original Career and any Specialisations you have (starting and purchased) are "Career Skills". It is cheaper to buy ranks in these skills than to buy non career skills.

Hope that helps.

What I'm asking is whether or having a skill in both your starting career and specialization gets you anything. It's looking like the answer is no

The only thing is the possibility of getting 2 free ranks in that skill, which is valuable at character creation, but in the long run its less important.

Yea it's really only useful at very early stages. In the long run it'll save you 10xp in that skill over just getting it once. But a net save of only 5xp because you'll have spent 5xp in another of those skills you could have had free. At character creation that 5xp might be important. But afterwards, not so much.

What I'm asking is whether or having a skill in both your starting career and specialization gets you anything. It's looking like the answer is no

It doesn't give you anything special, no. It simply gives you the option to start with two ranks in those particular skills.

I would also do my very best at creation spend all available xp on characteristics if possible because it takes a big investment in a specialization to get dedication to raise one characteristic.

During character creation when choosing a career (a bounty hunter for example), its says "Eight skills are... and he recives a DISCOUNT when he spends xp to purchase rank in any of these skills". What is DISCOUNT?? What is the amount of it, I cannot find it anywhere...

If you have two times the same Skill in your career and your specialization (and that happens in every start carrer/specialization)

You may put two starting points in those skills, as long as you don´t went higher than 2 and don´t put more than 4 (in the careerskills) and 2 (in the specializationskills) of free ranks into them.

If your choosen species give you free ranks in a skill rember that you are not allowed to go over the limit of 2 at creation.

During character creation when choosing a career (a bounty hunter for example), its says "Eight skills are... and he recives a DISCOUNT when he spends xp to purchase rank in any of these skills". What is DISCOUNT?? What is the amount of it, I cannot find it anywhere...

I think that is an other way to say that career skills cost less than non-career skills. I.e. "Each rank in a non-Career skill costs 5 additional XP" (page 92, Edge of the Empire core rulebook).

If your chosen species give you free ranks in a skill remember that you are not allowed to go over the limit of 2 at creation.

There is only one exception to this rule (so far); A Corellian human may have up to three ranks in Pilot/Planet, Pilot/Space, or both as a starting character (and if you don't raise at least one of them to three ranks than regular human is a better choice anyway).

During character creation when choosing a career (a bounty hunter for example), its says "Eight skills are... and he recives a DISCOUNT when he spends xp to purchase rank in any of these skills". What is DISCOUNT?? What is the amount of it, I cannot find it anywhere...

Career skills cost 5xp per rank less than non-career skills. Over the course of buying 5 ranks, the discount can save you 25 xp.

Career Skill costs

1st rank, 5 xp

2nd rank, +10 xp

3rd rank, +15 xp

4th rank, +20 xp

5th rank, +25 xp

Total cost: 75 xp

Non-career Skill costs

1st rank, 10 xp

2nd rank, +15 xp

3rd rank, +20 xp

4th rank, +25 xp

5th rank, +30 xp

Total cost: 100 xp

Edge of the Empire core book, pp. 92; Age of Rebellion core book, pp. 102; Force and Destiny core book, pp. 102.