hhmmmm did someone say player wipe ... i hate those things ...
I think the ship prises are fine the way they tbh, maybe make them around 500 mill (shouldn't need a player wipe for that) but any more than that is crazy imo, as it is now you still have to trade for ages to get one, you have to remember that with equipment the battleship does cost around 550 mill, which is fair, and i don't see the cap ship whores is to bad here, as long as theres factions like TBH and GoR (and allot of the other faction), who restrict such things anyway.
All that needs to be done is the factions should be more strict when it comes to how meny caps are allowed on the field at one time.