population doubles when homeworld rebels !

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually... I think it just sets it to 4 billion, not doubles.

No, it does not. Neither was I correct with the title of the thread. Here is what happens:

When HW rebels, SE add the max. number of population of the planet. In my case, Terrans had 1987 M. After rebellion, it becomes 3987. I rest my case.

Bill Door example is very interesting. It agrees with my assertion, but I never saw it if rebelion planet is NOT HW. But here we have a question of native and non-native population...

[Bill Door]

Could the non-native population be due to puppet political parties being used on the planets? On each of the planets with non-native population puppet political parties was used.

Or due to the population of the planet not being the same as the empire's race?

Or possibly both?

Does having a planet rebel through poor happyness cause a similar effect?

[Ed Kolis]

When a planet rebels, the new empire's population does magically become breathers of the planet's atmosphere (as opposed to remaining the same type as they were previously)...

Doesn't explain the sudden doubling, though...

[Slick]

Another neat thing is that the new empire has all the same techs as the original empire. So you can get lots of new techs if you get them to surrender, which is easy because your score is much higher.

Slick.

[Gozra]

My guess is when your rebel planet becomes an AI it also gets to have AI advantages. And maybe an AI advantage is a huge population. Which is an Advantage. I had this happen in a game once it was a bright spot on the road to ultimate destruction. I never surrendered as I did have som mines still active on the map somewhere but I did concede the game.