Projects are the permanent buildings that turn a commissioned Settlement into regional infrastructure. A Project is bought outright from cargo already lying in that Settlement's Reserve: starting it spends the Reserve and finishes the building in the same moment. There is no build time, so the whole decision is made before the first crate is flown.

Three separate things decide what a Settlement can hold.

1. The Settlement level hands out build slots. The level itself occupies none.
2. A build slot holds one building, which then grows through its own levels. An upgrade stays in the slot it already occupies.
3. The perk is what the finished building does. Levels replace each other: level 2 states the final value, it is not added to level 1.

Hub Projects, City Projects, Institutions and Airfield Projects draw from four separate pools, so a slot in one can never be spent on another.

An airfield has no level, so its two build sites are always available.

A Hub is therefore a specialist and a City a centre: level 3 gives a Hub breadth, and a City the one seat that carries a server-wide Institution. Most Hub Projects are exclusive per region, so the Hub slots of a region form one shared budget rather than several independent ones.

The Reconstruction Fund takes one crate off every line of every Project requirement, never below one crate per line.

A region without a Survey Station never sees anything beyond Lumber and Food, so everything the other Projects are paid in has to be flown in from elsewhere. Demolishing the station removes the tier access it granted.

The Security bumps are one-off and cumulative, the floor is replacing: level 3 sets 55%, it does not add to 40%. A region starts a fresh world at 20% Security, so the complete ladder carries it to 65% and every point beyond that has to be won in the air. This is also why the Dispatch Office's 75% requirement cannot be met by building alone. Checkpoints keep working during unrest.

The effect applies to every Source in the region, so its value scales with how many Sources the region actually has. However many effects apply, a Source never produces more than twice as fast as its base rate.

Without a Dispatch Office a region receives no AI flights at all. The AI carries Food only, permanently - the build-up of every other good, Lumber and Steel included, stays player work at every level. Each level's Security condition is checked when that level is built and never again: if Security later falls, the office keeps dispatching and its transports simply start getting intercepted. How many flights run at once and whether they may cross into another region is the Transport Squadron's job, not the Dispatch Office's. It keeps working during unrest.

AI transports react to need, they never stockpile by default. Each level holds Food inside a band: a flight is planned when a Settlement's stock, counting crates already on their way, falls just below the band's lower edge, and it brings the band's width in crates. A Settlement with 18 crates of storage under level 2 gets a flight at about 64% and 2 crates, which lift it back to about 75%. The AI then covers the whole route: it picks the raw material up at the Source, drops it at the Factory, and carries the finished Food on to the Settlement. A route too long for a single trip is continued on the next flight.

What each band means for Trust without player deliveries:

The AI can only deliver so much faster than a region consumes: level 1 at most as much as its Settlements use, level 2 one and a half times that, level 3 twice. A lost transport or any other drain on the stock therefore comes straight out of that margin, and at level 1 there is none.

The Dispatch Office is not the only answer to spread. A Civil Defense Office and Civic Administration also change how much Food a Settlement needs to hold its Trust, and together they can make a lower band go further than it looks.

Dispatch Office level 3 is the one exception to “never stockpile”: it also lets the AI keep the Food factory's own output topped up ahead of demand, up to a standing buffer - every other Factory's inputs stay player work regardless of level.

Fleet size and reach used to sit on the Dispatch Office; they are the Transport Squadron's job now. A region without one flies a single AI leg at a time, regardless of how far its Dispatch Office has climbed. The Dispatch Office's own requirement can be met anywhere in the region - it is usually a different Hub than the one hosting the Squadron.

Level 3's reach is deliberately narrow: it opens the border to one specific neighboring region, and only for the chains that region is missing on its own (a chain it can already produce locally never imports). Reaching a region that is not a neighbor needs the Air Logistics Command as well - without a Transport Squadron at level 3 first, the Command changes nothing, because there is no border open yet for it to widen.

The only Hub Project that is local rather than regional, so it is the only one whose cost multiplies with the number of Hubs: a region with three Hubs pays three times for three airfields. At level 2, players can select helicopter slots and spawn directly at that Hub. Both services, including the player start location, stop while the Hub is in unrest.

Civic Administration, Civil Defense Office and Regional Depot have no requirement of their own and are priced alike on purpose, so the choice between them is about the region's weakness, not about the bill. The Freight Office breaks both rules deliberately: it carries its own per-level requirements (a Dispatch Office and later a Transport Squadron in the region, a factory of the right tier already running) and its own price, because unlike the other three it competes for the region's AI capacity, not just for Trust or storage. The free slot is still the only hard limit otherwise: a City holds one project from level 1 and two from level 2, so building two of these four permanently forgoes the rest.

Both levels also add an unrest warning to the Sorties panel of the Live Map: a Settlement of this region that will fall into unrest within 4 or within 2 flight hours without deliveries is listed at the top of the Supply group.

It multiplies the recovery rate that already follows from Food stock, so it is worth most where supply is good. Below 50% Food there is no recovery to multiply, and it does nothing. It rewards keeping a region fed; it does not rescue a neglected one.

Inbound only. A Settlement of this region that falls into unrest of its own still drags on its neighbours.

Together with Civic Administration it changes how much Food a Settlement needs to hold its Trust against spread.

Crates left lying on a Source's pad still occupy its storage, so the extra space also buys off a Source blocked by its own uncollected output. Additional space is capacity, not additional stock after a restart. The perk pauses while the City is in unrest.

The Freight Office does for Non-Food factories what the Dispatch Office does for Food: each covered factory's finished output is kept topped up to a standing buffer (4 crates), and the AI stops there - it never stockpiles beyond it, and picking crates up triggers a refill on the next tick, exactly like the Dispatch Office's own Vorrat perk. Food stays off-limits at every level, permanently; that is the Dispatch Office's domain.

When a covered factory's input is another factory's output rather than a raw material, the AI only ever takes the surplus above that upstream factory's own standing buffer - a covered Building Materials Plant cannot drain the Steel Mill's reserve to fill its own. The Freight Office pauses while its City is in unrest, exactly like the Regional Depot it competes with for the same build slot.

Every active airfield has two build sites of its own. This pool is separate from Hubs and Cities, and it is the only part of the catalogue with no Trust, supply or level requirement at all: the cargo is the whole condition.

Both are paid from the airfield's storage. Without a Cargo Warehouse that storage holds only 8 crates, so a level costing 8 crates needs the storage otherwise empty.

Each level also narrows the bearing cone it reports and the direction sector of a rumor anchored at that airfield. Upgrading clears the station's calibration, because the antenna has changed. The full mechanics are in Enemy Detection and A/N Direction Finding.

Level 2 states the final value; it does not add to level 1. Demolition returns the limit to 8 crates. Cargo already in storage stays, but new deliveries are refused until the stock falls below 8 again.

The level sits outside every slot pool and is always available. It is what pays for the slots the tables above consume.

A level is not free once it is paid for: the Food target rises permanently, and the 85% supply requirement every later Project has to satisfy is measured against the new target.

Unrest begins below 30% Trust, and building requires 55%, so a Settlement in unrest can never start a Project. What already stands keeps running, with three exceptions.

Unrest halts growth, not rescue: the buildings a region needs in order to recover are exactly the ones that stay on.

Demolition is what makes a slot a decision rather than a trap. It removes the building completely, including every level it had, and the slot comes back free.

Industrial Parts sit at the end of the deepest production chain in the game, so demolition is deliberately expensive: it is a correction, not a way to rotate buildings through a slot. The Public Works Office halves the cost rounded up, refunds half of everything ever invested in that building rounded down, and removes the cooldown.

Demolishing a Survey Station takes the region's tier access with it, and demolishing the last Dispatch Office in a region stops its AI flights.

• Survey Station first in almost every region. It is the cheapest building in the catalogue and the only one that unlocks the cargo the others are paid in.
• The Checkpoint is a requirement in disguise. It is the only regional source of Security, and the Dispatch Office cannot be reached without it.
• Maintenance Works pays per Source. In a Source-rich region it is the largest throughput gain available; in a region with the bare minimum of three it barely repays its cost.
• The Dispatch Office is the only route to AI flights. It only ever carries Food. Level 1 slows unrest down, level 2 keeps a region out of unrest of its own, and level 3 also shields it from its neighbours and keeps the Food factory stocked ahead of demand.
• The Transport Squadron is what turns one AI flight into a fleet. Without it a region flies a single leg at a time no matter how far its Dispatch Office has climbed, and level 3 is the only way to reach a neighboring region's Sources and Factories at all.
• The Forward Airfield competes with itself. It is per Hub, so every Hub that wants one spends its own slot and its own cargo.
• At an airfield, the Cargo Warehouse usually comes first. With 8 crates of storage, a Direction-Finding level costing 8 crates fills the whole store, and nothing else can wait there in the meantime.
• A City picks two of four. Civic Administration if the region loses Trust faster than it recovers, Civil Defense Office if the damage arrives from neighbours, Regional Depot if Sources sit full while nobody collects, Freight Office if the region's own factories are the bottleneck and the Dispatch Office and Transport Squadron are already up.

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