managing research stations

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i have seen some posts about loosing access to researched tech if you loose number of research stations required for it. Can anybody conform this? I was under the impression that you only loose access to structures/ships that belong to that tech level, but not the upgrades. At least in interface, only ship/structure tech gets disabled, rest does not. In my last game on small map i have removed 3 empire stations after i have completed empire research and did not see the loss of upgrade tech in UI.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
You don't lose access to upgrades. Shields/hull/weapon research and such stay with you. You only lose the ability to build hulls and structures if you don't have enough labs, and you lose the ability to fire your superweapons.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, you lose the bonuses and abilities granted by research if you don't maintain the necessary research stations. You can see your current station "count" by looking at the colored-in margin creeping across the research screen.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
yeah, thats what i though Annatar, seems there are 2 different opinions on this here :) I still think that upgrades don't drop. I mean, upgraded enforcers armor was 10, i destroyed few weapon labs to make room for empire ones, it still was 10, even though i was out of stations to meet last armor upgrade req. Am i missing something or other people on drugs?