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it's really hard to come up with numbers that are not the old ones when thinking the old ones were better :D

replacing a supercarriers ~15 fighters takes a day in crius. that's shorter than pretty much all reinforcement timers. not cool. the longest reinforcement timer is 74 hours on an outpost. so ~7 hours per fighter(bomber) would move us somewhere interesting (not being able to completely replace a lost drone bay until the next timer) bombing the (fighter)bombers of your enemy a few times can mean that he may run into problems in a prolonged war, especially if you start controlling the jita market. (rank somewhere close to the one medium control towers have)

cap modules would be next. i know that hulls take 10 days to build (and i think that this is a very reasonable value)

however, controlling the market for cap hulls is hard, controlling the market for crucial modules isn't nearly as hard (a corpmate of mine often bought all bubble launchers in an enemies staging system when they tried to pin our ships down with lots of dictors. buying dictor hulls would have had the same effect at a much higher price. it's like a pressure point. The same thing happened to us when someone bought all subsystems of a certain kind. many of us were simply unable to replace the lost proteus and we were forced to switch to a less effective doctrine for some days.

if you can prevent (or slow down) your enemy from reshipping into dreads by buying all siege modules, you can have a nice and measurable effect that works on a completely different level, even forcing an enemy to reship into T1 instead of T2 dreads has an impact. (because us nullsec overlords can pay pretty much any price).

i would argue for ~20 hours per capital module, maybe shorter for guns and (remote) repair things, but longer for triage and siege modules. (rank somewhere close to the one large control towers have)

that means it takes a single character using a single slot about 7 days to rebuild everything for a triage carrier (up to 7 capital mods). the same character, using all his slots would be able to build the fitting for ~1.5 carriers per day.

you can't really solve the problem via price. we are so spacerich that we will pay pretty much any price when necessary. the only thing you can't buy when it's to late is time. you can try to prepare for all kinds of situations, but preparation opens a whole rabbit whole of meta gaming opportunities. even thinking about some traitor being in charge of our strategic bomber reserve excites me.