Tier upgrades

An important aspect of upgrading is the tier upgrades.
Upgrading higher level tiers unlocks upgrades, unlocks higher levels of upgrades and provides bonuses to your team.
There are 3 different types of tiers (economy, utility and offensive) and each type has 3 separate levels, namely tier 1, tier 2, tier 3 (t1, t2 and t3).
Your team can pick any kind of tier each level, but only 1 for each level.
Thus there are a total of 9 tier upgrades and each level you are given 1 out of the 3 unique types to choose from.

• note: tier upgrades have unique level upgrades. i.e once you have upgraded level 1 of any type of tier you cannot research another level 1 type. i.e You COULD NOT research economy t1 and offensive t1, sorry but you have to choose just 1.
• note: tier upgrades types are independent, but tier upgrade levels are not; economy t2 DOES NOT have a prerequisite of economy t1, i.e you don't have to research economy t1 to research economy t2 but you must have researched tier 1 (t1) to progress to tier 2 (t2). Thus if you wanted economy t2 you would have to research any of the available t1 upgrades (economy t1, utility t1 or offensive t1).
• note: Higher tier upgrades of the same kind don't replace the benefits of the lower tier, i.e if I research t1 utility and t2 utility I would receive the bonuses from BOTH of the tiers.

T1 Upgrades

Tier1 Upgrades

Icon	Name	Cost	Bonus
http://i.imgur.com/7YAuI5A.jpg	Economy t1	100 100	Increases mining speed by 20% Increases miner and chomper hull by 100. Unlocks the miner's Mineral Vent ability. Triples the health of the cargo drone.
http://i.imgur.com/vfqkd1r.jpg	Utility t1	100 100	Increases all small ship speed by 15%. Reduces energy cost of side boost by 50%. Reduces energy cost and cooldown of Turbo Jump by 50% Enables the Rear Thruster ability for the Wraith, allowing it to boost backwards.
http://i.imgur.com/9AVoYq5.jpg	Offensive t1	100 100	Increases Wraith hull by 50 and Corvette hull by 100. EMP now deals 30 damage and reduces the engine by 70%. Wraith and Corvette cost reduced by 30%. Corvette Photon Barrage energy cost reduced from 20 to 10.

T2 Upgrades

Tier2 Upgrades

Icon	Name	Cost	Bonus
http://i.imgur.com/aqGTPvv.jpg	Economy t2	100 100 20	Attempting to chomp an asteroid outside chomping range pulls it towards the Chomper. Reduces Chomp cooldown by 50%. Allows the miner to mine asteroids while moving. Reduces miner reconstruction time by 90seconds. Reduces Accelerate Mining Beam cooldown by 50%
http://i.imgur.com/XIgHGEb.jpg	Utility t2	100 100 20	Grants all small ships 50 shields. All Minelayer cooldowns reduces by 50%. Cooldown of all increase/decrease abilities on the power console reduced by 25%. Subjugator generates 2 additional energy per second.
http://i.imgur.com/gXV8obY.jpg	Offensive t2	100 100 20	Doubles the energy provided by power transfer. Grants the Cloaking Field ability to the Wraith. Increases the maximum stack of Plasma Charges for the Battlecruiser from 20 to 40. Grants the Wraith, Corvette, Minelayer and Destroyer the ability to fire Light Missiles (Piranha, Wasp, Scorpion). Wraith and Corvette damage increased by 25%. Reconstruction time of Wraith, Corvette and Destroyer reduced by 20%.

T3 Upgrades

Tier3 Upgrades

Icon	Name	Cost	Bonus
http://i.imgur.com/wNTK6bO.jpg	Economy t3	100 100 30	Grants the Mass Replicator console which can convert energy to minerals. Creates a ping when a new asteroid field is formed. Increases Chomper ship speed by 40%. Reveals all the asteroids currently on the map.
http://i.imgur.com/6IW26nt.jpg	Utility t3	100 100 30	Core degeneration rate decreased by 50% Increase marine speed by 20% Small ship cost reduced by 40%
http://i.imgur.com/z9XHdaS.jpg	Offensive t3	100 100 30	Reduces the energy cost of all Battlecruiser weapons by 20%. Doubles the force of the tractor beam and removes the energy cost.