Originally Posted by
potfish
Even for EU members you need silver already to get gold with 800 points, so presumably the cost is actually 50% higher if you're starting from nothing.
Edit: also you need 4 BA sectors for each level.
Oops - potfhish is correct: forgot about the TP reset after obtaining Silver. That would make Nothing->Silver->Gold indeed more expensive as you'd need at least 2 TATL from mainland Europe on BA. So you'd need two weekends

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