@ Diaf
The fixed gains system benefits activity as you already mentioned, and you want that to be rewarded. I'll assume that each attack could gain 100 honor points. In a war between 2 good kingdoms I cannot imagine resulting in high honor gains for either, as the amount of attacks will be similar. I think gaining honor from ghettos would perpetuate, because it still will be easier to gain honor from them. I'm not sure if that would be best way of gaining honor, as you said the kingdoms with most wars (and won wars) will be gaining, potentially less, honor, but faster.
I think if their goal is honor then yes. Let the best war the best.Right now, a KD has to plan such that they need similar NW for optimal warring. Must they also plan to have similar honor?
Also in your example 20 province kd vs 25 province kd, those 5 T/M's don't just disappear. Everything held equal the 20 province kd has no chance of winning, and let's not even talk about gaining honor. Ultimately activity combined with strategy will decide which kingdom wins, and gains honor.
@ nfidel2k
My formula was only an example, and while I think it's a good idea I haven't claimed it's perfect. So the var_a can be modified to make drop of gains less severe. I don't understand why you think gains can't be based on one's honor. The more land you have the more you gain, why can't it be similar with honor gains. I could guess it has to do with what you said before about easily reaching higher honor ranks. Changing honor points that are needed for certain titles could be the easy solution to that. But with my system it would be increasingly difficult to gain higher honor points, as there'll be less and less opponents with similar honor.
@ divinorum
You're right we should be able to take all honor and land, and kill a province with one attack. It is overly exaggerated, but, with land gains, topfeeding has been limited with networth gains, so I think similar limitations should exist in honor gains.Why is it more honorable to hit someone of equal ranks? What happened to 'for death or glory'?