your right it could take awhile, so it really depends whats worth more to that player. On the ship listing of the starbase wiki some of the ships have a material cost and a prebuilt cost showing. Don't know if those are def prices but the simple vasma currently is at 45,000 credit material cost or 200,000 prebuilt cost. One of the biggest and heaviest gunships is the Lictor, at like 4m material cost and 8m prebuilt cost. So ships won't be cheap, even if they reformat the price of them down some, still very costly. So depending on the value of the ship to the player and his time would be a considering factor.