Monday, November 8, 2010

Battleships are expensive

In the aftermath of the fight in CYB yesterday it has turned out that I received two lossmails for the same ship, due to desync, and two platinum insurance payouts, totaling 122 million. Back in the day ship replacment usually consisted of a free or cheap hull and the insurance money would cover modules and rigs, give or take a couple million, so in a decent alliance members could replace battleships essentially for free.

After receiving a tempest hull from ship replacement for 20 million I went to fit it out, and discovered that this costs a lot more than it used to. Sixty to eighty million just for the rigs. Seven for 2 1600mm plates. It used to be that the fittings were about half the total price of a fleet battleship, but today a tempest hull costs 72 million while the total price for hull, rigs, modules, drones and insurance comes out to 215 million. Even with double insurance and a cheap hull, replacing the ship put me out about a hundred million.

The medium range tempest fit that we're using is pretty okay, but maybe I'll go back to flying logistics. They're a lot cheaper, even if they are :effort:

3 comments:

  1. Seems like someone is gouging prices big time somewhere. Or my maths is failing me. Can you give a rundown on the costs and the fit?

    A t2 fit with t1 rigs comes to a touch over 100 mil in my calcs plus your insurance and 20mil hull I would guess a bit under 200mil. But would like to see your fit and your prices.

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  2. Prices were taken from http://www.eve-central.com. It's showing trimarks 3m above their current price, other items look accurate. Fit is fairly standard except for the rigs:

    6x 1400 (4.6*6)
    1x 100mn (3.7)
    2x 1600 (3*2)
    2x ancillary current (31*2)
    1x trimark (25)
    15 warrior (0.3*15)
    7 misc T2 mods (0.5*7)
    hull (73)
    insurance (9)

    I actually use meta 4 guns because of skills and switch an ACR for a trimark, which saves a couple million. My hundred million figure isn't adding up for me right now, though it looks like it would be correct if there had been a single insurance payout.

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