Well, the thing is that here this game is meant to be harder, lemme tell you why. We want the best bs (as eq i mean) to be used only by faction, as a flagship. I mean that, the flagship should be stronger than the rest of the ships from that fleet. That's why it's expensive, to avoid the ppl to all use the same damn armor upg. Frankly, I'd suggest the MK VI one, it's 48 mills, and upg the armor by a factor of 3. It's good too, and if you have some skills in a bs, you can take out a bs with MK VIII armor on it.