The easiest way I can think of to handle subscriptions is to make their 100% repair cost equal to their purchase cost, and have them take 10% damage very update.

That would make the first ‘issue’ cost  X, and each subsequent ‘issue’ would be 10% as much.

A better method would be to deduct the cost directly from people’s accounts at the update, but I expect that would require more new coding.

As for the benefits, I think that we should think outside the stat box and consider special effects. Constant ego/secondary regeneration, receiving ego for damaging threads, starting thread in-fighting, etc…

Naturally, none of these should affect scoops or cards, since that would royally screw up domination.