Maybe even campaign contributions for making sure a bill doesn't go through, etc. Just seems like there'd be a bit more competitive nature if you saw more bills failing and getting voted against by someone.
Thanks for the feedback! Bills fail and see competition routinely. You earn more clout and constituent support for opposing bills than you do for helping them pass, and potentially even more than you get from introducting them yourself (really that part depends on your stats). You also gain a chance at a relic for opposing a binary bill that fails, though the recent binary bill that was up saw no real opposition probably due to its content.
I like the game a lot and am a very casual player so don't know much but one thing it seems like is that there isn't enough motivation to vote against bills. It's far easier/more lucrative to just support your own. Possibly there should be less bonus for starting a bill and/or more bonus for killing a bill. Another possibility would be capping the # of bills of a certain type that can be passed in a week. Say you capped tax increase/decrease at 100 bills a week. If a party wanted to effect income tax they'd pass all of theirs and then have to try to shut down all of the opposite ones. As it is it's usually just a "if they pass 100 we'll pass 200" thing. I think it'd be more exciting to see more bills fail and have that be a bigger part of the game. JMO and I'm a very casual and new player plus like the game very, very much as is obviously!
Thanks for the feedback and support! I read your other message first and responded to the opposition thing in a comment on that comment. There are bonuses for opposing, but I think a lot of people are unaware of this. I should probably make it more clear somehow. Oh, and there are also bills which have no direct opposite and you must oppose to stop (most of these are green party bills).
There are some ways to reduce/minimize stress that are legal (replying to gerq174, i don't know how to reply here if that's an option). Once you hit level 2 you can do things like speaking engagements which use a lot of energy but cause very little stress as one example.
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Thanks for the feedback! Bills fail and see competition routinely. You earn more clout and constituent support for opposing bills than you do for helping them pass, and potentially even more than you get from introducting them yourself (really that part depends on your stats). You also gain a chance at a relic for opposing a binary bill that fails, though the recent binary bill that was up saw no real opposition probably due to its content.