Almost a whole year ago, I posted this: Updating game interaction: The New Frontier ( https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2517791#post2517791 )

A whole year, and nothing.

I would like for you to consider the following. Perhaps the business people at CCP could see this and put the two together.

Step 1. Hire/Contract 2 people who are Android Devs. Cost: 2x $100,000 USD for a years salary, plus 20% in benefits and other expenses. Total Costs: $220,000. There are many VERY good programmers that exist that would be willing to take a 100k salary to do this project. Pick two good ones that are qualified.

Step 2. Using Extreme Programming Practices ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming_practices ) (an Agile software development methodology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development )), develop the following Android App:

This app would support the following, and in order of waterfall ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model ) priority:

1. Make the app secure. (If I can do online banking with an app, I should be able to do eve related stuff with far less security)
2. Be able to update Skill Ques of your characters.
3. Have a built in Skill Planning Program. (there are already several examples of community projects, such as EveMon: http://evemon.battleclinic.com/)
4. Be able to view the market, and update orders.
5. Search, create, manage, Contracts.
6. Access a mobile version of these forums.
7. View and manage personal assets.
8. Create a ship fitting tool. (there are already several examples of community projects, such as EFT (Eve fitting Tool: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359)
9. Utilize any in-game chat channels. This includes evemails, local chat, alliance chat etc.
10. Ask the community for further development ideas (such as POS tracker, an autopilot function, whatever the community votes for)

Step 3. Sell Product: Have a 2 week free trial, so people get to try before they buy it. Sell an Android app, for $10 USD OR 1 Plex for a lifetime subscription. To recover the original investment of $220,000 USD, you would need to sell 22,000 licences.
Considering that you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000 active subscriptions, you would only need 5.5% of your user-base to purchase this product. This would not include an increase in active subscriptions which may very well happen. Also, an increase in the average "Users Subscription" duration could be achieved. Your marketing department will be able to go over all the possible scenarios.

This entire project should take no longer then 6 months from design to first implementation. Using waterfall lets you implement features as the are created (and immediately launch the product updates), rather then waiting until a fully implemented product is fully created. This is very helpful to gather feedback and confirm product viability.

Here's the bottom line.

Invest a small amount of money, 0.3% of GAR (400,000 active subscriptions, * $15 * 12 months a year = $72,000,000 Gross Annual Revenue), to enhance your user product and gain additional long-term revenues.