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# Upgrades & Levels

Each level costs more than the last. Upgrade when you run out of floor, not before.

Everything that produces can be taken to **level 5**. For most items a level adds one more of whatever the item does — four more desks served, another 60 points a tick.

What does not stay flat is the price.

![Each level costs more, each level gives the same](https://3552858075-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FGyJ2fCw8mpbx6YAYcG8z%2Fuploads%2FoBFr6Ug1KPS928TbkeKw%2Ffig-13-upgrade.svg?alt=media)

## What that looks like

A Server Cluster, starting at 90,000 $DEFUND:

| Level |           Cost of this step | Spent in total | Desks served |
| :---: | --------------------------: | -------------: | :----------: |
|   1   | — *(you already paid this)* |         90,000 |       4      |
|   2   |                     139,500 |        229,500 |       8      |
|   3   |                     216,225 |        445,725 |      12      |
|   4   |                     335,149 |        780,874 |      16      |
|   5   |                     519,481 |      1,300,355 |      20      |

{% hint style="info" %}
**Upgrade when you run out of floor, not before.** A second cluster costs 90,000 and serves the same four extra desks that level 2 charges 139,500 for. What you are paying the difference for is space: an upgrade takes no extra cells.
{% endhint %}

## The terminal is the exception

A Trading Terminal seats exactly one trader at every level — there is one standing position at the desk, and a level cannot add a second. Instead, each level makes the person sitting there **25% more productive**, so a level-5 terminal doubles what its trader brings in.

That makes it the one upgrade you buy for output rather than for space. More *seats* still means more terminals, and more terminals still means more floor.

{% hint style="warning" %}
A levelled terminal is only worth what the person you sat at it makes. Upgrading a desk and leaving your weakest trader in it wastes most of the money — see [Who Sits Where](https://degen-capital-1.gitbook.io/degen-capital-docs/degen-capital/economy/how-production-works).
{% endhint %}

## What has no levels

Staff and walls do not level. A legendary's bonus and a trader's wage are fixed numbers, and walls do nothing for your output at any level.


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