===Skill gain===
Your skill-gain is the highest when your success chance is 50%. A lower or higher success chance lowers the amount of skill gained when succeeding. The further away from 50% success chance you are, the lower the skill gain.
Improving actions will usually give more skill then creating actions.
You barely get any skill, if any, for failing an action.
=== Skill decay ===
Unused skills will start to decay over time,roughly 0.01 point. The higher the skill level, the lower the amount of skill decay on it. Low skill have skill decay once a week, while high skills can have skill decay up to once a day.
Being a citizen of a [[settlement]] can reduce the skill decay. The older the settlement, the smaller the skill decay. The info screen at the token of a village can tell you how much the skill decay reduction of that settlement is. It is displayed near the alliances information.