A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.
"Premium member could automatize their airplane maintenance or batch-change their price while all free users need to do those manually"
"The game is disgustingly pay to win, with many offers giving you parts that are significantly stronger than regular ones you get for money, not even gems. The parts you get give you an advantage so significant over enemies you can pass through several arenas using parts bought from one arena."
"If you get enough copies of some heroes, you are just instantly better than everyone else."
"yes there are march boosters, a stronger upgradable spaceship (compared to the base free upgradable one), extra research and building queues so you can double the amount of upgrades you are completing at a time, and various consumables for buildings and research that skip a lot of gathering time for free players."