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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7211410" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I seem to recall that "unlimited uses" wondrous items have a cost multiplier that may come into play (though I can't seem to find it in my PDF of the DMG).  I'd apply that and then come up with a discount for the delay.Okay, found it.DMG Page 285, Table 7-33If an item is continuous or unlimited uses, not charged, determine cost as if it had 100 charges.  If it has a daily limit, determine it as if it had 50 charges.Charges per day says to divide by (five divided by charges per day).  So price / (5 / 100 ).  Translation, price times 20, because dividing by 1/20th is the same as multiplying by 20.  (As opposed to dividing into 20ths.)So let's run some numbers...  Spell level 3 times caster level 8 = 24, times 1800 = 43,200, times 20 is 864,000.  Divide by 3.5 (average delay on a D6) and get 246,857 and some change.Seems like way too much.  Or not.Too much to hand out as a PC treasure item.  Too much for any town, most cities and pretty much all ship captains to afford.As a hard-to-break siege or defense weapon though...  One such well placed weapon could decimate an army, or clear a quarter mile of city walls of defenders.  So after much work, we get an unworkable answer, if we go straight by the book.</blockquote>