Skips the wave-target requirement — spawns immediately regardless of run mode or current wave, for testing only.

Stubbed for now — not wired to actual regen logic yet. This first mothership stays permanently disabled once its emitters are destroyed.

No cap on total drones spawned — this is rate only, deliberately free-running for pressure testing.

Real theatre HUD element (top-right stack), not buried in the dev sidebar — visible during actual play regardless of the sidebar's own state. Turning this off skips the draw call entirely, not just the display, in case it's ever worth shaving off the frame cost.

Buildings never had a dot at all before this — turrets, UFOs, and animals were the whole picture. Facing compass is a small rotating wedge in the corner matching the free-look camera's current orbit yaw, not a full map rotation — cheap orientation cue without needing the map itself to spin.

Live on the placement ghost and shop preview right now. Already-placed towers keep whatever shape they were built with — this doesn't retroactively reshape anything standing on the field.

Brightened from the first pass by default — lighter steel base, and the housing shell around the emitter core now carries its own dim emissive tint instead of sitting flat dark.

% of the locked target's combined max HP + max shield, dealt per second of continuous lock. Percentage-based on purpose — self-scales with however UFO HP ends up tuned, rather than needing its own separate balance pass every time that changes. Deliberately the strongest single-target weapon in the kit; the real cost is the single lock itself, not the damage number.

Applies to newly placed stations — doesn't retroactively resize an existing one's HP pool, same rule as the spire's own structure sliders.

Same delay-then-regen pattern this game already uses elsewhere — a fixed no-damage window before the shield starts climbing back, not a continuous trickle-while-under-fire regen. Was previously two hardcoded constants; live-tunable now, applies to every station immediately.

Global now, not per-station — moved off the individual building panel. Unchecked by default, so a fresh station is vulnerable out of the box; check this to protect every station on the field at once for testing.

Each one forces that exact variant (bypasses the normal spawn-chance rolls entirely) and drops it well inside the play area near center rather than the map edge, so it's on screen immediately. Arrives using the same cloak-in visual as the departure cloak abducting UFOs already use (fade-in, booster trail, settling spin) — same underlying function pair either direction, built as a real reusable snippet rather than one-off code for this button.

Spawn button lives on the MOTHERSHIP tab (Boss Testing) — confirmed still wired and untouched this pass, not duplicated here.

One unified log now, not a UFO-only one with turrets/buildings bolted on separately — everything that dies in the theatre, most recent first: id, type, mission (UFOs only), cause, and whatever killed it. Bounded to the last 200 entries; last 40 matching the checkboxes above are shown. Refreshes live while this tab's open.

Retreated/escaped survivors specifically — a real, distinct concept now, not an unlabeled subset of "everything inert." These are the units a future wave-condition trigger (every 10th wave, a budget system, whatever gets decided) would pull back in. For now, the button below calls all of them in manually, on demand.

Separate concern from the Reinforcement Pool above — ordinary kills, kept around purely for cheap mesh recycling on future spawns, not units waiting to be called back in. Not shown here as revivable "units," just the raw pool state per variant.

— claims · — turrets active

One row per live entry in the real claims Map — turret → UFO, with real time-to-expiry (soft claims lapse ~1.2s after a turret stops re-acquiring). Sanitized on the same real paths every other death/retreat event uses — destroy, cloak-exit start, cloak-exit complete, and Group Focus override — so a STALE row here means an actual gap, not expected behavior.

— live UFOs

The other half of the same picture — what every UFO is actually doing right now, read straight off its real task object: id, mission (task type, plus Saboteur's permanent missionLock where set), and current target. This is the exact state a future UFO-side claim system would need to read — nothing here is UFOs claiming anything yet, this is just making what they'd need to know visible first.

Jumps straight to the ready-to-place state — cancels the intro terminal outright rather than needing a turret placed to get there. For testing: go straight to dev bundles instead of watching the ceremony play out.

FPS -- · UFO 0 · PROJ 0 · FX 0 · TURRETS 0

Same live numbers and thresholds as the corner monitor (amber under 50fps, red under 42fps) — this is a second read of the identical counters, not a separate measurement.

A real hard placement cap, not a soft "only some contribute" rule — placing a Data Centre beyond the limit above is blocked outright, same red-ghost/toast treatment as any other blocked placement. Every Data Centre that exists is therefore always a real contributor when powered. Tier upgrades (not built yet) raise what each one produces, since the cap on count means that's the only lever left to scale output. Hitting the global pool cap auto-powers-down every Data Centre — Tech Labs do genuinely consume Compute now, but if production still outruns that conversion, the pool fills anyway and there's no reason to keep drawing power once it has.

Converts stored COMPUTE into RESEARCH each wave, while powered — real subtraction from the Compute pool, not a free side-read of it. Uncapped placement on purpose: Research is downstream of an already-capped resource, so the same runaway-stacking risk that justified Data Centre's hard cap doesn't apply here yet.

Spends CREDITS to queue ground units, once any exist — no CREDITS-per-wave economy hook needed the way Compute/Research have, since this building only spends on demand rather than accruing anything of its own. Uncapped placement, same reasoning as Tech Lab.

Circuit breaker (default): powered entities are resolved in placement order — draw is allocated to the oldest-placed first, anything after the grid runs out browns out automatically, even if it's individually switched on. Simplest mode: if total draw from everything switched on exceeds capacity at all, everything browns out at once until you bring it back under budget yourself. Either mode, switching an entity off always frees its exact draw back to the grid immediately — the manual toggle lives on each turret/spire's own info panel.

Real kills through the same registry pipeline as any other death (cause: combat, no killer) — not a fake/silent removal. If the mothership is present, sends it into its own real departure sequence instead of deleting it outright. Doesn't call wave-complete directly — checkWaveComplete() already gates on every UFO being dead/escaped and the boss not being mid-fight, so clearing the field genuinely triggers it for free, same as winning normally.

Ignores both the default cap (10) and the Stress Test Governor's raised cap (30) entirely — genuinely unbounded placement. No safety net beyond your own judgment; watch the Performance readout above while you push it.

5x turret, 5x MK2 upgrade, 5x each of the 4 laser modules — free, straight to inventory.

5x turret, 5x MK2 upgrade, 5x each of the 3 EMP modules.

5x turret, 5x MK2 upgrade, 5x each of the 3 ammo types.

5x Shielded Power Generator, 5x Arclight Spire, 5x Data Centre. Buildings only — room for more here as new building types get added.

Base value (this run's starting slider position) → each applied card's bonus, bracketed → live total. If the total doesn't match the base with no cards listed, something's stacking that isn't shown here — that's the bug this panel exists to catch.

Soft cap, not a hard wall — once the running total crosses this, remaining picks get proportionally less likely to add more, floored so nothing's ever fully locked out. This is the real fix for pathological stacking (evade + reinforcement + shields + retreat speed + Legendary survival all individually valid, combined unwinnable).

Running total this run: 0 / 40