The hangar has become affordable. Recalculated: all 87 ranks together cost 137,110 ions — the first 30 only 4,070, but every purchase made everything else 2.8% more expensive, so by the last purchase that compounded to ×11. A passive test ship earns ~15 ions per minute, an active player roughly 3,000 per hour: 45 to 90 hours for everything. Benni’s target is 10–15.
New formula: rank ×1.25 instead of ×1.32, purchase markup 1.0% instead of 2.8%. Total: 36,490 ions, the first 30 ranks 2,690, the first 60 around 10,950. At 3,000 per hour, that’s about 12 hours. The uncertainty is in the income estimate, not the formula — round 3 measures that.