Research takes a big chunk out of what you could be building with Cf's and Ressies if you up the number of Rps RCS's create and make a tech tree for the research to unlock the ops.

their would be quiet a few benefites to this out side of adding another playing aspect to the game.

for the Tech Tree you could for example just take each OP and unlock it at a certain Percentage,(my orginal idea involved doing it by race by number of ops and using formula to unlock ops at certain percents. Im not math wizz so that quickly got tossed out of my mind.

5%  Vision and Spy On Target
9% Generate False Info and Planet False Info
30% No Fear opens.

All Race Specialtys Unlocked by Default.

and Granted these are all just random numbers that popped in to my head for ops .

It would add a new demension to the game, All around, With attacking, Infraing, and ops, and making Researches easier to get.

Game could possibly automatically take a certain percentage of your RPs and put them in to the ops Research,