I can’t understand why the same BR vehicles with the same reward index could have such a different price? For example, Karlsruhe, Dupleix, and Belfast, except for their performance, they are the same BR with the same reward index, but Belfast is the most expensive one, which needs over 8k GE, and this price is close to Rank V BBs price. Is there any reason?
Its British…So… Not really all that surprised.
But yes, its a very good question, why Rank IV, BR 5.7 Light cruisers vary so much in price. Never noticed before
Unless its done based upon performance, with Belfast being the strongest of the 3 by quite a bit and its just compression causing them to be the same BR
Prices are based on rank and position, not BR.
Btish now has the most expenisve Rank III DDs, CLs… No idea the reason, even the US got a better one but it is much cheaper than it.
Yeah… and still waiting on a Heavy Cruiser premium like HMS Exeter,
In my opinion this is probably the reasoning & it tracks with other premiums as well but, because that Town class 1936 unlike the others is from the old TT which saw the GE prices as higher costing in most of the ships.
The Königsberg class cruiser Karlsruhe was a new ship from post 2.01 & added as a direct GE premium.
The Suffren class cruiser Dupleix is slightly more due to originally being a pack premium (you can see similar in other cases).
The Town class 1936 cruiser HMS Belfast was only ever a GE premium & was added pre 2.01.
This is my theory on this at least & there’s no concrete evidences to back it up, but for the most part the pre 2.01 ships costs more (bar the Akebono class Destroyer Escort at 2980 GE), Meanwhile post 2.01 since the bluewater tree is the cheapest now the GE costs mirror it (inadvertently DE’s now cost more than JDS Akebono since coastal is the most expensive).
We see the same happen when old Destroyer types are reintroduced with them being double or triple the cost of current 5.0 premium destroyer types
Take example the 4.0 BR Fleet Torpedo Boat T31 which shares the cost of the now cruiser Karlsruhe in GE cost even though destroyer type premiums of that BR as premiums don’t go anywhere near that cost, or the old pack premium destroyers being 6090 GE on reintroduce while again destroyer types are only half that nowadays.
A similar vein to the HMS Belfast was the Project 41 destroyer Neustrashimy which iirc was & still is when it returns 7100 GE.