As of January 5th, i'm a Silver player, and have no intention of re-subbing anytime soon. The drought of 2011 pretty much killed the game for me (both Atari and Cryptic's fault). Only reason I log in at all, is because it's free. There really isn't a major reason to sub for the game, other than to get the "free" 400 C-point stipend.
The new "fleet stuff" sounds cool (in theory), but it means very little to me, since i'm part of a "dead" fleet consisting of a bunch of friends (most of which, haven't logged into the game in many months). I heard rumours of "ship crafting" being attached to the new Fleet Starbase system, but have no idea on what kind of ships can be crafted, or how. I would however like to see the craftable ships being able to be "packaged", and tradable (and thus possible to sell at the Exchange). Would give a reason to actually CRAFT them, as well as being a major income source for players (and allowing single players, such as myself access to the new ships without the aid of a fleet).