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# Elite status

The state of a vehicle whose modules and successors are all researched, which unlocks crew training and experience conversion.

Also known as elite, elite vehicle.

Once everything a vehicle leads to is researched, it becomes elite. Its [experience](/glossary/experience.md) can then be redirected into accelerated [crew training](/glossary/crew-training.md) or converted into [free experience](/glossary/free-experience.md) with [gold](/glossary/gold.md), instead of accumulating with nothing to buy.

Elite status is also what opens [field modifications](/glossary/field-modifications.md), so it is the point at which a vehicle stops being a step in a [grind](/glossary/research.md) and becomes something a player keeps.

## Related terms

[ResearchSpending a vehicle's experience to unlock its modules and the vehicles that follow it in the tree.](/glossary/research.md)[Free experienceExperience that can be spent on any vehicle or module, accumulated as a small share of everything earned and convertible from elite vehicles with gold.](/glossary/free-experience.md)[Crew trainingA crew member's proficiency in their main role, as a percentage, which scales every stat that role governs.](/glossary/crew-training.md)[Field modificationsPer-vehicle upgrades unlocked after a vehicle is elite, trading one stat against another in a series of choices.](/glossary/field-modifications.md)

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