Aug resets, ship itemforming and renaming do not give any 'statistical advantage' (and yes I just twisted your own words against you), therefore not pay to win.

So yeah, you have two choices, retract that statement or admit that your own facts on what is 'pay to win' are incorrect.

In general I agree in concept that SS could both make players happier and increase their own revenue allowing them to be more successful and invest more in development if they revised their pricing schemes and specially add in "pay for convenience" and/or "pay for cosmetic" (name changes, ship colors, etc) features. But this assumes they have the back end capacity for all this. If they are so overworked and loaded right now that they can only handle X number of name change/aug resets a week, then lowering the price will only lower their revenue, if they are unable to actually process more.

But I do think their payment model is outdated. Games like Guild Wars, League of Legends and tons of other MMO's make millions and are funded purely through pay for convenience and/or cosmetic features. These games usually take great care to make sure there is no in-game statistical combat/material advantage from their pay features, so that the game is not pay-to-win and I think SS could achieve a simliar balance.

I will be voting for your suggestion, but unfortunately I see the biggest hurdle to this the SS players themselves. I suggested something once like this and got a lot of push back. People irrationally see things like pay-for-convenience and even pay-for-cosmetics as pay-to-win since in their mind paying players are getting something they aren't. They cant wrap their heads around basic economics and think everything should be f2p. Also many people will oppose on principle. I recall when the Stront-90 missions were added in a lot of higher level players did not like this. They hated it because while it didnt take anything away from them, it made life a bit easier for p2per to level and in their mind "if they had to suffer and grind, then everyone else should have to also." These players would probably go ballistic if there were a way to pay to make the game more convenient. In their minds it would somehow diminish the suffering and annoyances they have endured over the years.

Naysays have no say in this

Naysays asks why you want a price re-evaluation right before a heavy influx of new players when you know we'll probably only have one go at it?

Dont get me wrong I am for this idea, the established rates were for non automated services... I just want to make sure it gets dropped to a fair amount rather than not enough & not considered for re-evaluation because it just recently was.

Yea that sounds fair enough.

With the automated system in, I can see this being much cheaper. But there isn't really a way to tell how much it costs to item form ships currently, or do anything.

The items in FM just have listing of the Space Point cost right?

I bet there is a high % of current p2p's who have no idea what Space Points are lol.