- To buy 500 000 Skill Points once in a lifetime of the character. This would help to either start a new character, or change the direction a character is going. It is not enough to make much of a difference (that much can be earned in a week of good play), but helps get characters out of a low skill slump.

- Instead of the skill boost, make it possible to buy 100 000 SP for every 200 000 SP earned in game. This is much better for the people that can't play long continuous sessions. Because if I only can play for an hour, a one day booster is kind of wasted money. Even worse for a 7 day booster if I only play three days out of seven and only for a couple of hours.

- Pay Aurum for passive SP boost. At the speed the current passive SP accumulate, you need weeks to get the equivaleent of one good game played, so it only serves as an incentive for players to return after a long while of not playing. Again this would help the casual gamers stay competitive, or at least not get left too far behind.

- Have Meta 1 (non militia) items available for Aurum. This would work hand-in-hand with the once-in-lifetime skills you can buy to start a new character faster. Because at the current ISK reward levels, even with the skills, a new player can't afford much gear.


I think none of these ideas would make a paying player stronger. It would make him get up to speed a bit faster, but he could never be stronger than a non-paying player. Which is where most game micro-transactions do best: to ease the grind for the players that are ready to pay.