The game is designed so skills are learned by time. A single skill can take three months to train, you are essentially paying for skill levels at that point.
Oh yeah sure, I tried with like 3 different trial accounts in like 2 years, I find the game a little complicated, my main issue was the lag, response and weird bugs that occurred when I played that game. I'm not too proud of the gameplay either, but the game seems really deep so that's a plus. Learning all the
"This goes here, and this goes there" is a pain in the ass though.
There were some missions were I bought a destroyer, and it got his ass handled to the enemy, I had to warp via the nearest station for repairs like 7 times to get trough it, I never want to do this game, boy I was upset lol. Are you supposed to do this with a group or something? No clue. The game suddenly went from very easy to impossible.
Space traveling? Gate warping?
4 Jumps away, 5 Jumps away, 8 Jumps away...
So the reason why I asked this is because the game may feel really different with a paid account. I'm also guessing that lag issues (**** I hate to wait 10 seconds before the freaking ship moves or do anything else) are mostly a problem with trial accounts who share a lower connection via the master server.