This equipment costs how much?!

So I did my first deep dive into the build costs of equipment and... holy crap.

I have thousands of hours in this game and never really cared whether the material costs of mark 3 equipment was 3-5x the cost of mark 2 equipment, but I get why I never have any field coils in my shipyards now (big fan of frontier engines on M sized ships).

On the plus side, I now have a new toy to optimize. Those local, station-to-station transports are looking at some serious downgrades moving forward.

Actually, on that note, why are courier chassis' so expensive? Like, the only courier hull that's noticeably cheaper than a Mercury Vanguard is the Callisto (which is also ridiculously cheap. Might have to start using those..). I'm sure you can make couriers relatively cheap compared to a Mercury if you fully trick the Mercury out, but when all you need is flying tube to stuff your junk in.. I think Mercuries are going to see a lot more use in my logistics networks.

(fun fact: 1 hull parts factory can produce 15.89 Callisto Vanguards per hour. Do with that information what you will.))