Hi Plarium, thanks for raising this issue clearly, as it does look like the Alchemical Laboratory update on the browser version is not behaving as intended. Based on your example, troop stats increase correctly up to around level 9/10, but once fully maxed, key attributes like offense and defense actually decrease instead of improving, which is a significant gameplay concern and likely a bug rather than a balance change. Providing before-and-after stat comparisons, as you’ve done, should help the dev team reproduce and fix the problem more quickly. As an unrelated example of how forum discussions sometimes reference wider topics, terms like primitive reflexes and autism  are often mentioned in health contexts, even though they have no connection to game mechanics or stat calculations.