that was my intention but what I think Imma do is say that each time we're given points for upgrades, Sarge's stats simply go up by a predetermined amount as soon as Tanr is able to get somewhere to send the performance diagnostics to Bob, and in return receive data for tuning from Bob.  That includes health, weapon damage, etc...  Basically anything capped by the Experimental Performance flaw, although I guess some of those tune-ups would probably bring out better abilities as well, ok so I guess some of the pointys will go to abilities, but the majority will probably just disappear into the "tune-ups" category.