I am working on creating a spreadsheet that will allow me to plug in what level I have in a school and it will tell me what my skills levels will be and what prestige schools I qualify for.

That part is easy. The part I do not know about (as I have not gotten a character high enough skill level to take a prestige class) is what happens when you take on a prestige class?

Do you start it at level 1 or 8 or 10?

For example if you level Outfitter to level 10 you will have the 80 skill required to join the Armorer School. Once you join, will you now be level 1 Armorer? If you are level 1 then you would need to level Armorer to level 8 to match the 80 skill required to join. Or will you join it and start automatically at level 8 to match the requirements to join? Or does it match the level you were in the school you used to meet the requirements and start you at level 10? If it does the last one then does it automatically jump your skill to 100 from the 80 required to join?

If I were programming it I would pick the one that has it start at level 8 to match the pre-req skill but I do not know how the game actually does it.

I have been going over the forums on several different sites and have not found any guides or detailed explanations about how the multi-classing skills pass from one school to another.

Thanks for any info you can give!

Kuzac