Influence Currency Needs more...stuff

[HatedSovietLion]

I think Influence needs more stuff. Currently, I bankrupt my company after a few years (that's separate balancing) but I'm sitting there with 500+ influence.

If I could use influence for more than just increasing my research by like 2% speed, that would help me feel like I'm using it for earned things. Maybe use influence to get free advertising with a magaize for a movie. Or use influence to assist in balancing the scales when hiring a top tier actor/director/etc.

Use influence to increase the critical appeal or something by telling peoplet o treat us as oscar bait, idk.

As of now, it just seems like Influence doesn't lead to anything worthwile, and everything costs money but nothing else

[samuel]

Influence is important for votes with the Association which arises a few years into the game 1932ish. You can speed up research quite a bit with it if you executives have higher levels also like 20 to 40%