2 plug-ins that would be highly useful, and even work together somewhat would be a paid membership widget option where they click and pay(maybe throught paypal) and it adds them to a group with special permissions sich as extended messages in pm box, special colored post and reply box, tag that says they are premium member and possibly other benifts.
A way to edit group privileges and special benifits would work for this to as well as for things like adding new moderators. In a forum with 100 or more catagories, making general moderators would be painful.
Are any if these in the works for the near future?