Projects are the permanent buildings that turn a commissioned Settlement into regional infrastructure. A Project is paid from cargo already in that Settlement's Reserve: starting it spends the Reserve and completes the building at once. There is no build time.

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 four build sites are always available.

At level 3 a Hub gains a third slot, and a City gains the seat for a server-wide Institution. Most Hub Projects are limited to one per region, so the Hub slots of a region form one shared budget.

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 increases are one-off and cumulative, while the floor is replaced: level 3 sets 55% rather than adding to 40%. A region starts a fresh world at 20% Security, so all three levels together bring it to 65%; anything beyond that has to be won in the air. The Dispatch Office's 75% requirement therefore 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. The AI carries only Food; every other good, including Lumber and Steel, remains player work at every level. Each level's Security requirement is checked only when that level is built: if Security falls later, the office keeps dispatching and its transports are more likely to be intercepted. The number of simultaneous flights and access to other regions depend on the Transport Squadron. The Dispatch Office keeps working during unrest.

Each level holds Food within a band. A flight is planned when a Settlement's stock, including crates already on their way, falls just below the lower edge of the band, and it carries the width of the band in crates. For example, a Settlement with 18 crates of storage under level 2 receives a flight at about 64% Food, carrying 2 crates that raise it to about 75%. The AI covers the whole route: it collects the raw material at the Source, unloads it at the Factory and carries the Food on to the Settlement. A route too long for one trip continues on the next flight.

Without player deliveries, the bands have the following effect on Trust:

The AI delivers at most as much Food as the region's Settlements consume at level 1, one and a half times as much at level 2, and twice as much at level 3. Lost transports and other losses reduce this margin; at level 1 there is none.

A Civil Defense Office and Civic Administration also change how much Food a Settlement needs to hold its Trust.

The AI does not stockpile, with one exception: at level 3 it keeps the Food factory's own output topped up to a standing buffer ahead of demand. The inputs of every other Factory remain player work at every level.

A region without a Transport Squadron flies one AI leg at a time, whatever the level of its Dispatch Office. The Dispatch Office required for the Squadron can stand at any Hub in the region, usually a different one from the Squadron's.

Level 3 opens the border to one neighbouring region, and only for the production chains the region cannot supply itself; a chain it can already produce locally is never imported. Reaching a region that is not a neighbour also requires the Air Logistics Command. Without a Transport Squadron at level 3, the Command has no effect.

The Forward Airfield is the only Hub Project built per Hub rather than per region, so a region with three Hubs pays three times for three airfields. At level 2, players can select helicopter slots and spawn at that Hub. Both services, including the start location, stop while the Hub is in unrest.

Civic Administration, Civil Defense Office and Regional Depot have no requirements of their own and cost about the same. The Freight Office has its own per-level requirements (a Dispatch Office and later a Transport Squadron in the region, and a factory of the right tier already running) and its own price, because it uses the region's AI capacity. A City holds one Project from level 1 and two from level 2, so it can host only two of these four.

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 follows from the Food stock, so its effect grows with supply. Below 50% Food there is no recovery to multiply, and it has no effect.

The office reduces only spread arriving in its region. A Settlement of this region that falls into unrest itself still drags down its neighbours.

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

Crates left on a Source's pad still occupy its storage, so the extra space also frees a Source blocked by its own uncollected output. The extra space is capacity only; it does not add stock after a restart. The perk pauses while the City is in unrest.

The Freight Office keeps the finished output of each covered Non-Food factory topped up to a standing buffer of 4 crates. The AI never stockpiles beyond it; collecting crates triggers a refill on the next tick, as with the Food factory buffer of Dispatch Office level 3. Food is never covered; it belongs to the Dispatch Office.

When a covered factory's input is another factory's output, the AI takes only the surplus above that upstream factory's own buffer, so a covered Building Materials Plant cannot empty the Steel Mill's buffer. The Freight Office pauses while its City is in unrest.

Every active airfield has four build sites of its own, one for each Airfield Project. This pool is separate from Hubs and Cities and has no Trust, supply or level requirement; the cargo is the only condition.

They are paid from cargo delivered to the airfield with Cargo > Deliver. Delivered cargo takes no storage space; an airfield accepts a cargo only up to what its largest single Project still needs.

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 further crates are refused until the stock falls below 8 again.

Workshop and Insurance Agency stand only at airfields with a runway, not at heliports, so every aircraft can reach them, the C-130J-30 included. They serve pilots who land at their airfield; their offers are paid in credits.

The Settlement level lies outside every slot pool and is always available. It provides the slots used by the Projects above.

Each level permanently raises the Food target, and the 85% supply requirement for every later Project is measured against the new target.

Unrest begins at 30% Trust and building requires 55%, so a Settlement in unrest cannot start a Project. Existing buildings keep running, with the following exceptions:

The buildings a region needs in order to recover are the ones that keep working.

Demolition removes a building completely, including all its levels, and frees its slot.

Industrial Parts come at the end of the longest production chain, which makes demolition expensive. The Public Works Office halves the cost (rounded up), refunds half of everything invested in the 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. The cheapest building and the only one that unlocks the cargo the other Projects are paid in.
• Checkpoint. The only regional source of Security; the Dispatch Office requires it.
• Maintenance Works. Its benefit scales with the number of Sources: large in a region with many Sources, small in one with the minimum of three.
• Dispatch Office. The only source of AI flights, and it carries only Food.
• Transport Squadron. Without it a region flies one AI leg at a time; level 3 is the only access to a neighbouring region's Sources and Factories.
• Forward Airfield. Built per Hub, so every Hub that has one spends its own slot and cargo.
• Cargo Warehouse. Worth building where pilots relay much cargo through the airfield; Projects do not need it, because delivered cargo takes no storage space.
• City Projects. A City hosts two of the four: Civic Administration where Trust falls faster than it recovers, Civil Defense Office where the damage arrives from neighbours, Regional Depot where Sources fill up without being collected, Freight Office where the region's factories are the bottleneck and the Dispatch Office and Transport Squadron already stand.

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