-- Do TOP TIER players pay for Premium --

You get 50% more Ag. I only have time to play 8-10 games most days which isn't nearly enough to generate the amount needed to max out my hanger (been playing for 1.5 years). So yes, I think premium is worth it.
In retrospect, though, I should've done it sooner--it's easier to get Ag up until Diamond; beyond that the competition (and and physical/energy shields) steps up and you get less.

If you see yourself playing long term you might want the really long one. Even with premium you will not have enough silver.

Worth it

Definitely needed to max equipment in a timely manner. If I want to keep upgrades going continuously, I need it. I don't play super often either. Usually an hour a day if I'm lucky (more on the weekends). I've purchased it 3-4 times since the beginning of the year.

I'm not a top tier player, my hangar is around 8/9. I do pay for premium, and it does often work out to almost double the silver. As someone pointed out, it is 50% more of your gross earnings, and the repair is deducted after that.

I pretty much constantly have premium for 30 days paid for unless I know for some reason I won't be playing for a while. I'm also very stingy with my money, and still consider this a fair investment.

I am at 4000 cups, with 100 cups to earn to challenge for Masters III.
Hangar has:
Bots = 2x L10, 4x L9, 1x L8 (rotate some)
Weapons 5× L12, 8x L11, 5x L10, 1x L9 
A week ago I purchased the 40/30 premium pack $10.  This is my first time to purchase premium and it definitely helps!  I am speeding up every other L12 weapon upgrade.  On my 4th upgrade and down to 143 Million Ag from 180 Million Ag when I started the upgrades.  

Worth it at any level. Seen it give more than 50%

Ran some quick calculations to put it into perspective.

Personally, I average between 450-500k damage a game. Without premium, this amounts to let's say 250k silver a game. With premium, it's more like 400k silver a game. So the Premium benefit is about 150k additional silver per game.

Now, 30 days of premium costs $9.99. You can buy 1,200 Au for $9.99 which directly results in just under 3million Ag to purchase it directly. We'll round up to 3million exactly for the sake of making this easy.

So, if you use premium for 30 days, you only have to play ~20 total games in the entire month to "break even". It's very easy to play 20 games total in 30 days.

Let's take a more realistic, but very reasonable estimate: play 5 games per day. This amounts to 150 total games in the month. At a premium benefit of 150k silver per match, you'll earn 22.5million more silver than you would've without premium. Compare that to what you would've gotten if you just purchased silver, and you got 750% of the return.

To put it simply, if you want to spend real money to acquire Ag, the premium is a no-brainer. The only question left is do you want to spend real money for silver.

The million daily is good and all, but to go from level 9 to level 10 across my hangar, I'll need about 100million silver. Then another 150-175m for level 11. And another 250-300million for 12. That's why, later in the game, premium really becomes worth it.

The alternative of course is saving your hard earned money and just enjoying the grind.

^ I've been thinking about gifting my clan leader gold because his hangar is terrible... lol... and since I'm currently on vacation from work and playing War Robots for 12+ hours, I would get my money's worth out of premium.

If I am serious about any freemium game , I squeeze it like grape , paying least amount of real money in exchange for fake digital anythng . Premium is the last thing would spend real money on.
War Bots enjoys the prestige honour of being the second game out of dozen or so Freemiums I played to separate this fool from his cabbage . I both respect and am annoyed by it . paying is double edged sword , You will lose interest much sooner if you bought everything . I will enjoy everything you have .....in time.

This is a game of patience . You confusing seriousness with impatience. Sooner or later , preferably later Pixi will switch off servers and on that day the folks who cry the hardest are those who spent enough money to feed a whole town full of cheapo,s. If you got tickled into opening your piggyback to get to master level faster , It actually means you failed the freemium challenge . The corp made a profit at your expense . Your failure to secure your financial resources is their success and proof of their superiority.

Amen bro panda . You worked hard for your pennies , flush it away as you like. I give loaves of bread to street bums just to give capitalism the middle finger .

Oh well...it's alright if you dont want to pay for this. To each its own. I bet you throw your money in the trash somewhere else, so a lot of the stuff you talk about doesn't make sense.

I don't know if this has already been a topic, but I have written pix admin to recommend a pvc (player vs a.i) option so not only our investment is protected, and so we can still battle even if there aren't enuf live players.