How to fix it with Barrons Toolbox

As many of you might now that I have 1115 plots: 1 full region (Region # 9; Highmoor, PNW), 1 tract in (Region # 10; Quegmoor, PNW), and 15 plots in Region # 47, Rason Detiir, LOP. I am poorly managing my land, as it was always inevitable. You can take a look at a screenshot from Barron's toolbox to see how I am utilizing some of my magical plots.

I don't have enough DEC to populate all the plots, I have 30% of the plots active.
I don't have good enough cards not only for all plots, but also for my good rare and epic plots.
I hurriedly populated the plots without putting too much toughts into it, so they are not optimized.

NOW WHAT?

Barrons Toolbox to the rescue

I haven't done any spreadsheet optimization before the land release and not planning on doing it future either. First, I am not that serious, and second, I am more of a visual person. So, the first thing that helped me in the "Leaderboard" feature in-game that was pushed out as an update from the team. This helped out figure out "where I belong in my region and in Preatoria". Next thing was for me to understand the relative important of SPS, Research and Grain. I quickly populated all my Occupied (SPS) and Magican (Research) plots, and enough grain farms to feed the workers of those plots. I wrote about my experience here, here and here.

You guys can see my Rare Magical plots above. Let me compare that with some in my region; vcdragon, who has similar land position as me.

This is the first time, I have been able to compare visually how I am doing compared to someone else. I chose VC because his name was familiar and above me in terms of Research point production. Now, there is no reason to compared me, who is currently producing 285.622 Research point/hr (after some of the cruicial upgrades, it was 240/hr a few weeks back!), to someone like Vugtis, who is currently producing 4,229.899 Research points/hr. It is better to compared to VC, who is currently producing 298.605 Research points/hr. Using barrons toolbox, I can quickly turn on just rare magical plots that VC is using to build research hut and compare the same with mine. VCs individual plots are doing 5.3-8.2/hr compared to mine 1.3/hr. That is a big difference!

The other point to think about is why Research?

SPS from occupied all turned on for me
I can always buy SPS, it is cheap, and I speculate will be relatively inexpensive for a while
Grain is just fuel, not a sellable product
There is no way to 'buy' Research. So even it is purple, there is no way to buy purple

I was underperforming on Research in a big way, even on my Epic plots. Here is "before".