Spawning new empires in-game

[geoschmo]

Imperator Fyron said:
I am quite certain. I have seen more empires spawned from PPP after killing/conquering one of the old ones.

So I am curious what happens to the player order when this happens. In my experience a spawned empire is also put at the end of the list. Butw when an empire dies they are not removed from the list and still show on the player select screen that comes up when you load the game as a dead empire. So if you have 15 live empires and 5 dead ones and a new empire is spawned, does it replace one of the dead empires, or does it get put at the end of the list, in which case you'd have more then 20 in this list. Do you have an old save game where you can see more then twenty total spots in this empire list when you load the game?