Last night, I noticed that since hitting Rear Admiral 5 two days ago, I am not getting skill points anymore. What a bummer. I was planning on training up on more skills.

Does anyone know if this is going to change in the future? Will we be able to start earning more skill points when they add more missions? It seems kind of unfair that I cannot train my Admiral on more topics.
Also, I heard that you can get skill points for doing the Infected and Cure missions. I will probably try those tonight or tomorrow. Is this true? Will completing these earn me some more skill points?
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They will raise the cap in the future yes.
No... It is not true.
Respecs, coming with Season 1, I believe, will allow you to rearrange your skill points, but not get anymore.
BO skill points will keep coming, though, so you can play around with different arrangments of officers.
Skill points are capped at 60700 for captains; this is done on purpose and is Working By Design - at one point the devs were going to implement a capless system, but changed their minds. Why? Ask them.
IN a way, this is good - it forces diversity in builds since you can't max everything - and since you can't hit the "hard" skill cap it gives the game some replayability.
Due to player demand, respecs are coming inthe Season 1 patch, due out before the end of the month. You can then rearrange your points, jsut not add more until the level cap is raised and more missions/content added.
The respec is also necessary since three new skills are being added to enhance any ship you fly; they aren't ship specific.
When will the level/skill caps be raised? Unknown - the devs have not said.