Tech 2 Battleships are coming. As soon as someone invents them. Now that invention has arrived, any new Tech 2 items are presumably going to have to come from inventors willing to invest the time and ISK into getting an inefficient copy of said Tech 2 item.
When Revelations I released last November (almost a year ago already, wow!), the new Tier 3 battleships were selling upwards of over 500 million ISK in the first week or so after the launch. For those of you counting, that's about 4 times the eventual market price.
Given that T2 items in general trade for many multiples of what it actually takes to manufacture them, it's reasonable to expect that the new T2 battleships are going to cost quite a bit.
A rough calculation:
T1 Battleship: 100 million
Brand-new-toy inflation of 4x: 400 million
T2 build inflation (at a very conservative) 10x: 4 billion ISK.
Do I think someone out there will pay 4 billion to be the first in their corner of space to own that brand new Black Ops battleship? I'd like to find out.
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