I feel political action committee might be a better name for this.
I like this in general, however I feel strongly that Its effects should be canceled should a player become inactive.
Captain Jack wrote:To give you a different perspective:
-This tech becomes chained to Political Science (you must research it to lvl 20 first) and perhaps education lvl 10? Althought education is already very important anyway.
-The stable rule changes and instead of losing 1% per day, you lose 1.5% per day
-Deep Connections (We need a better name though) reduces this loss by 0.05% per level
OR
Even better, we could base it on a fixed amount. Ie, every lvl saves you up to 5k per port per day (no loss at 10M influence or less)]
More ideas can be added. These are just the first that came to my mind. Feel free to brainstorm and result it to a final suggestion that will take as prequisite that this technology will be chained to Political science (lvl 20 will be required before you can start researching this one)