Research in 8x games

[billierios]

I am currently working on a design document for a 8x space game and have been thinking also about research. I did make suggestions to Aaron for SEV about that but it wasn't 100% really clear for me yet. So i spend more time thinking about it and so this it is (not sure to remember how research points are generated in Spartan): in most games, when you've got the biggest empire, you also get the biggest research which seems wrong to me. When we look at history, we notice that some small nations had the best research. So here's is just a though and i'd like to hear what Iain thinks about it.