Orca Production Calculations

I’ve been doing some calculations for the upcoming Orca release and trying to get some relatively harder numbers for the mineral requirements. I worked through the BPO’s and the subsequent requirements to total up their costs and arrive and a minimum cost. To produce one Orca from an unresearched BPOs of each piece it will cost 433,439,762 isk. This based on the same weighted averages for minerals that I use to calculate the isk per jetcan values.

I’ve uploaded a screen shot of the calculations, but I’ll try to summarize here a little bit:

• Total Cost of BPOs = 7,906,896,360 ISK [+ Orca BPO @ 1 billion]
• Total Mineral Cost = 433,439,762 ISK
• Cost – Tritanium = 252,301,136 ISK

Conclusions:
It will likely debut for close to 1 billion as people rush them into production and to market. For those manufacturers who already have researched parts BPOs, they will be able to produce them at a significantly reduced amount.