[mac5732]

sorry been busy haven't been on line for awhile.
Chewy, ref your question. take the 20 planets, if you use empire wide rebellion, whatever you use for a trigger goes off, then computer computes the percentage you set, in this case you stated 25%. therefore 5 planets would rebel. Howver, if you also use system rebellion, and say you had l system of 6 planets that rebelled, the computer would subtract the 6 from the 5, in this case 6 greater then 5, so no other planets would rebel and the 6 would be the only ones in rebellion.

I think I would stay away from multiple break away rebel empires. I think this could be a programers headache. I would just go with 1 new empire being formed per rebellion. You already have puppet intel in game and this would also create new empires. Remember the more complicated and involved, the harder to hard code or make changes. How about list of triggers, their effects, and how to try and decrease the liklihood of rebellion for either planets, systems or empire? Once this is solved then the rest should fall into place. You need both triggers and ways to de-trigger in order to have balance.

just some ideas, Mac