Rank and Research Points

[Bobkyou]

Honour should be awarded for completed research? So a person should get more honour for having got honour to level up to receive the research points?

And why should someone get more research points per rank? What problem does this fix? How does it improve a person's gaming experience? Or do you just want to make the game easier because you feel its too hard?

Edit: Not that their is anything wrong with feeling that the game is too hard. The difficulty of the game is valuable feedback.

[Lord Aresius]

I've been doing a bit of calculations

So far, we have the folloiwing natural "income" of research points by ranks:
Ranks 1-7: each 1 rank (I know, 3 per each, but just bear with me)
Ranks 8-12: number of subranks increased in each by one.
13: Same as with 12.
14-15, both one higher than 12.
16-20, once more incerased each rank by one.
Rank 21 has 15 subranks
Rank 22 has 25 subranks.
Thank makes a total of 142 rank-thresholds.142 times 3: We have a total of 426 research points only from the ranks,

Now, let's look at the "expense"
We have: Industry, Farming, Military and Education.
Industry:
20 x 8 reasearchupgrades: 160
Farming:
12 times 8 reserafchupgrades: 96
Military:
15 x 10 reasearchupgrades: 150
6 x 8 reserachupgrades: 48
Each one time 5 and 4 researchupades: 9 (in total)
Makes 207 researchpoints for Military.
Education:
11 x 10 reserachupgrades: 110
9 x 8 reserachupgrades: 72
3 x 5 reserachupgrades: 15
2 x 4 researchupgrades: 8
Makes 205 researchpoints for Education.

So in total, we need:
160+96+207+205 = 608 reserachpoints to get all up to max.

We get 426 RPs, we need 608 RPs, ergo, we need to buy 182 RPs.
Per each buy, the costs increase, okay. But one Reserachpoint currently costs me 13k of gold.
True, Philosophy decreases that amount, but to decrease it, I need RPs, which I must buy or levelup, but at the current time, I'd rather spend the poitsn elsewhere more necessary.
Kind of a dilemma.

I like the idea that the higher ranks should get additional RPs upon leveling up.
Let's say at the rank of 20 they get 4 RPs, at the rank of 21 they get 5 RPs and Rank 22 is rewarded by 6 RPs.
Thank means we'd get an additonal 12 (from Rank 20), 30 (rank 21) and 75 (rank 22), equals another 117 RP income.
Thank makes the total income 543RPs, means we only need to buy 65PS.

Or, as I can already hear some saying "Well then it's too easy!", what about this idea:
Rank 21 get's 4 points and rank 22 get's 5 points. That makes an additional 15 (rank 21) and 50 (rank 22), equals additional 65 RPs. THat makes a total of 491RPs, and we only need to buy 117RPs.

[Bobkyou]

Its supposed to be a dilemma. A large part of these games is having to find a balance for military, research, advancement, industry, ect. The only reason I see behind this proposal of more research points is to make the game easier, but its a pretty easy game already.