Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-775697-20150128051757/@comment-24990154-20150220082259

Dragonclass wrote: Meaning, if the rest of the tree is "closed" what is "open" still does not get additional research or may even be skipped altogether.

as long as you only have less than 2 parts/aircraft researching, it won't be skipped. But if you have 3 open research and on the losing team, one of those research will be skipped.