Upgrade Station

Upgrade Stations (also known as Research Stations) are important places in the game where players can upgrade their weapons and ships stats. They can be found in almost every system, some even having multiple. In exchange for resources, they provide many opportunities to grow in strength. Just like any other Station, each Upgrade Station has a safe zone surrounding it, excluding Unknown Upgrade Station, AFIS HQ, and Nezerian Research Base.

### Location

Upgrade Stations are easy to find using the Map (M). Brown squares () are shown on the map as an icon to mark them.

 - Research Station in Kapello system

 - Upgrade Station in Kritillian system

You can also aim your mouse at any station icon and click on it. Doing this will pin the chosen location.

Once you fly onto it, press (L) to land as you would most other stations.

### Content

Players can use their resources (   ) or () to buy upgrades for the weapons they need.

At first, only 1 upgrade can be bought. 2/3/4/5/6 Upgrades can be unlocked when player reaches level 2/4/8/12/16 respectively. The first three upgrades can be bought using steel only, and the last three upgrades always will have following resources required to buy them:

* 4th Upgrade always costs  +
* 5th Upgrade always costs  +
* 6th Upgrade always costs  +

Flux can be used to buy upgrades as well. Level 1/2/3/4/5/6 upgrades costs 100/200/300/400/500/600 .

### Upgrades Reset

Every time an upgrade is purchased, the cost of other upgrades raises up, which means you have to choose them wisely. Prices, given in flux, are fixed, and not affected by the amount of upgrades the ship has already. There is an option to reset your ship upgrades. It refunds resources, spent on upgrades on the ship which was reset, in full quantity, include flux.

Every upgrades reset costs 200 . There's also an option to buy a reset package (10 resets) for 1000 , leading to a 50% discount per reset. Resets, bought with reset package, can be used on any ship. Reset Package is stackable, meaning you can buy it even if there are some resets left.

### Elite Techs

Elite techs (ET) (Lvl 7 upgrades) are special upgrades, which become available after previous 6 upgrades were bought. They can strengthen weapon in several ways. Some of them can improve it's damage, while the other ones completely change it's purpose.

Every elite tech has 100 upgrades. The amount of elite techs your ship has doesn't cause prices to grow for another techs or upgrades, and vice versa - the amount of normal upgrades bought has nothing to do with ET's prices.

Upgrading an elite tech on one weapon (For example, direct damage on Pixi Launcher) won't transfer to other weapons with same techs. If you upgrade an elite tech on a weapon (Pixi launcher) on Pixi ship, and then upgrade Pixi Launcher to lvl 6 on another ship, the second ship won't have elite tech upgraded. The techs have to be bought for every weapon and ship separately, making them quite expensive. It's recommended to not spend resources on elite techs at the early game, because their cost is high enough even at starter levels.

There are currently 32 different elite techs available

### Elite techs upgrades

An elite tech is very costly to upgrade. The cost differs per weapon but always will be chosen among 3 various choices (see below). The prices on upgrades are fixed, which means certain weapons always will draw from a specific list for elite tech prices. For example, Locust Hatchery will always use the third price list for it's elite techs upgrades, while Energy Nova will always use the first. This isn't affected by the place player chooses to upgrade their weapons, prices will stay same on each Upgrade/Research Station. Like normal upgrades, when you reset your ship, the resources spent on elite techs will be refund in full quantity.

* List 1
* List 2
* List 3

### List of all Upgrade stations

(Shown in coordinates)

1)Hyperion

* AF Research Station (-87, 10)
* Upgrade Shack (-144, -234)

2)Kapello

* AF Research Station (-83, 127)

3)Venturi

* Upgrade Staion (0, 70)

4)Durian

* Upgrade Station (142, 0)
* Uknown (415, -722)

4)Arrenius

* AF Research Station (0, 94)
* Osho's Upgrades (190, -127)
* AFIS HQ (-198, 259)

5)Kritillian

* Upgrade Station (18, -117)

6)Zergilin

* Xhargregs Research Station (-99, 131)

7)Hozar

* Upgrade Station (-57, 57)

8)Mitrilion

* Upgrade Station (337, 163)

9)Vibrilian

* Research Station (0, 97)

10)Sarkinon

* Upgrade Station (0, -82)
* Nezerian Research Base (-291, 683)

11)Neurona

* Upgrade Station (10, -100)

12)Cynaspian

* Upgrade Station (-20, 100)

13)Fulzar

* AF Upgrade Station (-250, 175)

14)Vorsan

* Research Station (223, -160)

### Bugs and Issues

1. When upgrading a weapon to Level 6, it's prices for elite tech always will visually show List 1. This can be fixed by unlanding and re-landing.

### Trivia

1. AFIS HQ has red textures instead of yellow ones, making it look similar to Pirate Bay.
2. Nezerian Research Base shown as Upgrade Station on Map ( ), despite being a Hangar. However it still serves all functions any Upgrade Station does.