The current requirements are -/-/-/1/2 and basic miner 2. This is confusing to new players, who compare their licenses to the requirements to the ship's requirements and can't figure out why they can't buy it despite the "Mission Tree required text" being there.

The license requirements should be around -/-/-/5/8.

Trade 5 to match the Trade requirement for a base Behemoth, if purchased at Corvus.
Mining 8 to match the volume of mining needed to actually complete the badge. (Or just bump up the license requirements and ditch the Basic Miner 2 badge requirement? /shrug/)

Assuming those requirements are approximately in-line with what is needed to get Basic Miner 2 in the first place, I don't have any problem with that.

But, I will say that this is a symptom of a much-larger problem around it being "unclear how to gain access to content", which needs to be solved, and not just for this one ship. That is a next-gen UI/UX goal, fwiw.

Assuming those requirements are approximately in-line with what is needed to get Basic Miner 2 in the first place, I don't have any problem with that.

Right. 15 000 aquean ore is 60 000 mining exp so you'd be around Mining level 7 minimum if you only mined aquean. So realistically their mining license will be higher

To address the bigger problem with unclear requirements, perhaps just put something like "Basic Miner 2 Badge required for purchase" in the purchase window, and so forth for the rest of the badge related equipment like HD mining beams, MPosi, Plasma Annihilator, etc.. Then it would be clear what's required.

perhaps just put something like "Basic Miner 2 Badge required for purchase" in the purchase window

I mean, I agree, but we have to really do a full rework of the entire UI, and make the requirement something that is consistent and easily seen, regardless of whether it's a badge, or credits, or storage, or crystal, or mission, or faction standing, or whatever else.