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I noticed in that shops, potential crew members' experience bars are shown, but I have only seen them empty. Can crew members in shops start with some amount of experience? What about crew you get elsewhere?

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No, none of the crew that can be acquired in FTL as of this version start with any experience. However, it has been a suggested feature on the FTL forums here.

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    This was correct when written, but is now out of date due to the Advanced Edition
    – Flyto
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 11:59
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As of the Advanced Edition, at least, it is possible - however generally all EXP bars will be empty until you reach later sectors, and even then they will have a "speciality", ie. a single stat with EXP with the others all empty (which is how my crew generally ends up anyway).

This can apply to new crew members received from events too, as will be shown by the corresponding icon next to the crew member in the message telling you about them joining you.

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    i've seen both crew member start with 2 separate skills at level 1, and crew members starting with 1 skill maxed out. So its possible at the later sectors to get better crew.
    – l I
    Commented Apr 11, 2014 at 11:34

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