Retrofit Rant

[Fyron]

Given that these are the only 2 moddable lines (not counting cost of the components) that affect this aspect of retrofitting and that the other retrofit mechanics are hard-coded, this can't be adequately addressed in SEIV unless there is another patch to the exe. But it can be brought up here for SEV.

It can, after a fashion. Make the cost to remove -10. Now, removing a more expensive (hence higher level) component will give you back more resources than removing a cheaper component, so it will cost less to upgrade DUC IV to V than it would DUC I to V.

There are only a few components that get cheaper with more tech levels in stock SE4 (I can only think of engines), so they would be the exception for more obselete components being more expensive to upgrade from than less obselete components.