I've been wondering about the purpose of research points ever since I started farming on my three measly plots. One of them is growing grain, the other one SPS, while the third does research, apparently without much purpose. However, taking a step back, even the SPS and the grain are fading into insignificance, as my enthusiasm for the entire game has been fading.
Now, seeing how the same thing applies to you too, even though you are much deeper in it, with a castle and close to a third of a region in your control... I am starting to wonder if that is a general tendency. It would certainly explain the low price of SPS, monster cards, and in fact land itself.
I think it's basically kept afloat by a small cabal of mega-investors who simply can't offload say 10M SPS or 200M DEC so they hold on, they're the ones buying more. We just have to hope things go crazy again during this Bull Run, either way I'm getting out at some point pretty soon.
Completely agree on the getting out part. But I also agree that now is not the time. So hopefully things do go crazy again. Like three years ago, the last time I felt excited by the game.
The new land requirements are pretty bonkers...!