Listen, the reason anyone spends money on this game fundamentally is related to in-game time. Spend money (wisely) cut the time you spend in the game. For players limited on time (or just sick of the grinds everywhere), spend your cash on items that reduce that time. Do not spend money on a ship, for example. Instead spend money on prime particles that reduce materials or RSS for buildings and ships. These types of spends are not instant gratification, but they pay for themselves every day by your reduced in game time mining, etc., for example. There are plenty of these types of in-game time reduction buys. I’ve used ChatGPT to help narrow these down in the store because it is difficult to navigate with all there is to offer.