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Upgrading a building no longer costs you the things it unlocked. A Nuclear Reactor now counts as the Power Plant it replaced, so anything that asked for the old building — Barracks and the rest — stays available instead of locking up the moment you upgrade. The same holds the whole way up a chain, so late upgrades like Foundation or Laser Wall still stand in for the buildings they grew out of. Upgraded buildings also keep their old spot in the build list rather than dropping to the bottom, so the Reactor sits where the Plant did.

That fix has been carried through the rest of the game. An upgraded building now does its old job as well as filling its old requirement: a Refinement Plant refines like the Refinery it grew out of, so your income keeps flowing instead of stopping dead. Heavy Harvesters still take up harvester slots, Radars still keep the world map and your spy runs open, upgraded Starports still count toward trading, and a damaged building still slows production after you upgrade it. Build limits keep applying too, so an upgraded Refinery line is capped exactly as it was before. This holds across every upgrade in the game, at every tier — not just the ones named here.

Scouting survives an upgrade too. A commander who had turned every Trike into a Fast Trike could no longer scout at all — the garrison held no plain Trikes to send, so the order was simply refused. Your Fast Trike now rolls out, and it runs at its own faster pace, so an upgraded scout comes home sooner than a Trike would have. It stays the same vehicle the whole way through: a Fast Trike that leaves defends as a Fast Trike if it is caught, and returns to the garrison as one. If you happen to hold both, the plain Trike goes first and the faster one stays home.

Upgrades now have a face. The Upgrades tab used to be plain text, so the artwork being drawn for each upgrade had nowhere to appear. Every upgrade now shows its own picture on its card, beside the name and what it does. Upgrades whose art is still on the easel show the usual placeholder for now, and fill themselves in as the artwork lands.

Research can be called off. A project already in the lab queue had no way to stop it — you could cancel a building or a batch of units at any time, but a research order, once placed, simply ran to the end. Every row in the research queue now carries a Cancel of its own, and it behaves exactly like the ones on the build screen: it asks first, shows what you get back before you commit, and returns the usual share of whatever has not been spent yet. Queued upgrades in that same lane can be called off the same way, and the countdown and its Cancel now stay together on narrow screens instead of the link drifting off on its own line.

Two bits of Dev Channel bookkeeping now tell the truth. If a change is pulled back before a release goes out, its request no longer gets stamped as live — it stays open until the work really ships. And a request can no longer be flagged as "Awaiting your input" when you have already answered: your reply is read first, and the thread moves on instead of asking you twice.