Creating issues

Posted on Friday, August 20, 2004
I was wondering how you create new issues for the political machine?

I was taking on Jimmy Carter with Ronald Reagan and trying to mold it into the 1980 Presidential campaign. However the issues were all wrong. For one thing- terrorism, war in Iraq, and other things like that weren't very high on the American public's list of concerns then.

I'm looking to add these issues to the game to more accurately represent the 1980s-


Nuclear arms reduction treatys
Star Wars (the missile defense system)
Soviet expansion in Afghanistan
Arms race/arms build up
Iranian hostage crisis
Libyan terrorism
Space Shuttle program
Soviet appeasement
Berlin Wall
Grenada/Cuba crisis
Panama intervention
Iran-Contra
Iran-Iraq war


On top of that I want to eliminate the war in Iraq issue. Because there was no war between the U.S. and Iraq in the 1980s. So how would I go about doing all this?