Solution to ease of game (and increase opposition) over terms?

[cliffski]

I posted some more about this here:

Lategame popularity snowball

I’ve been looking at stats for this stuff today and collected some interesting data. If I look at all elections in the latest version of the game, and check some stats on election turn: Average Complacency 6.31 % Average Cynicism 1.03 % Honeymoon 96.56 % Those are the three mechanics that are supposed to ensure late game challenge. Essentially the political honeymoon should fade down to nothing over successive terms, complacency and cynicism should likely rise with terms. Collectively, t…