Market Discussions

Does anyone have any idea what the approximate SELL price of the Gnosis (New gift Battlecruiser) will be;

1 month,
3 months,
6 months after launch?

Thanks.....

Let me look into my crystal ball.

At this point trying to estimate the price is not speculation, it's wild-ass-guessing.


Yes, I do consider the two of them different.

For the faction cruisers (and battlecruisers) there is information available that provides something of a baseline to estimate the price from.

For the Gnosis, there is nothing.

Well right i'm wondering if i'm better off spending $150 on plex, or $150 on the collectors edition....If those ships are gonna be worth like a bill each the decision is clear..

Also, there is TONS of info available about GNOSIS, fitting is 6/6/6 omni resits for shields (4800hps) armor(5000hps) etc. etc. Weapon Damage and Warfare link bonsues....


Just google it...

But not the necessarily info.

The info we have available for faction cruisers and battlecruisers is the LP cost and the cost of the other items necessary to make it. From that, we can determine what the cost is at a given value of the LP.

What we know about the Gnosis is every active account will get one and collectors editions will get an additional five, as a result of the bpc. But we can't even use the mineral requirements of the BC as a guide, because of all those free ones that could undercut that price. And likewise, the Gnosis is rather unlike other gift ships as they're either glorified shuttles (apotheosis and echelon) or basically useless (primae) so the price structure of those ships doesn't even really offer very much of a clue. So, we're reduced to guessing. For example, I would guess that 200m or so (the approximate cost of the faction battlecruisers) will be a reasonable price for awhile, until the ships start to get rarer.

But it's just a guess.

When everyone got free genolution CA-1 and CA-2 implants they were cheap. Now they both sell for about 50 mil.

This gift ship looks cool, I can see it being a useful PVE ship as it will have a low chance of getting poped in high sec.

I assume just like every other rare useable item released, they will be really cheap at first while many players that could care less dump them for what ever they can get for them. But after a couple years when they get rare, they may be worth billions. It just depends how well they perform.

Look at the faction towers for example.The BPC's no longer drop in game. there is no way of getting a "new one" If you want one there are a limited number left in game and the price tag on them is huge. Zero new supply , but they are still significantly better than a normal tower. Thus the players who use them are willing to pay crazy prices for the few that are left. Also remember Quafe Zero the gift booster, they are worth over 6 mil a can now, if you can find any.

This ship could be the same. or if it sucks, nobody but collectors will want it. It all depends on how many of them are horded as collectors items, and depending on how good they are for combat, how many are actually used and destroyed. If they are really good some players will want to keep flying them, creating a demand that will drive the price up. If not the price they sell for in the first weeks may be the to price and it will drop as the players who want them fill their need.

I think it's a pretty good assumption. The last 266 Popes have been humans, and I don't see any reason to expect the College of Cardinals to break tradition and elect internet spaceship pixels as the 267th.

They wont get randomly suicide ganked for a long time unless they are pimped out. Even at a billion isk for the hull, the tears factored isn't really worth it when you can easily find, and gank for the same price or less, a tech 3 cruiser worth more.

I also wonder if buying the pack is a good trade. I mean you get a 5xGenosis BPC. So are 5 Genosis fully built worth more then the price of the pack?..

The answer is who knows. Roll the dice and find out. You'll either be back here telling us how you killed it, or back here crying to me because I suggested it. Either way it adds a bit of fun and risk to the game doesn't it?

It is wild ass guessing, but I'd say based on previous giveaway trends that it won't be worth a hell of a lot. Demand may be high initially, but once people mess with it the value will likely plummet and people will forget it exists. And as for it not being a gank target...

When I was back in suddenly ninjas we held a contest to see who could gank the most zephyrs when they first came out. The tears were *glorious*.