I am more of the type that either goes all in or doesn't even start at all. If you are going to do something, do it right or don't do it at all. 24 cents a week is less than a half baked offer that only serves as a tool to even the negative part of the new currency system Elite now has to offer: That you can't purchase products directly and may have unused money in your account. See if you only want that single paint job but you are having 0 ARX you must buy the cheapest pack that has enough ARX for like 6 paint jobs or so, effectively wasting your money for additional 5 paint jobs. Luckily FDev decided we can earn them but with an utterly low cap of 400 ARX per week we may have to play for several months to even out the differences between two packs, especially of higher tier.I can't be sure if your British or not so this may make little sense to you, but do the BBC pay you 24 cents a week to watch their programs? Does any TV company? Free money is free money, end of.
And no, I will not think about purchasing a cheaper one on top of a medium one because that would reduce the ARX/currency value. But then again, luckily I am not planning to invest any further as long as the major issues haven't been resolved in Elite.
A good starting point would be 200 ARX per day. That's 12 cents per day. And while that isn't necessarily that much for a palyer, it certainly adds up for a company like FDev.
But that is a nice compensation for the madness we have to deal with in the during the past years like the heat bug, fighter lags, bugs that won't get fixed for months/years and the ever lasting lack of balancing changes.