Spawning new empires in-game

[geoschmo]

I have run another detailed test and I am more convinced then before that I am correct. Once you reach 20 empires total (dead+alive) the game will not spawn any more new empires. I ran a test with 12 empires, spent the first few turns surendering them down to just two empires. Then I had one empire build some intel facilities and start running ppp projects. For a while it worked. Not every ppp worked, as has been discussed before in other threads. Some of them failed and the other half resulted in new spawned empires. Each time an empire spawned, it was placed at the end of the list and given a neutral looking flag. This continued until 8 new empires had been spawned, giving me a total of 20. From this point no additional empires have been spawned through several turns.

Since that point the succesful ppp operations result in the planet changing sides from one empire to another instead of spawning new empires.

I don't doubt that you guys think you saw this happen, but I just don't think it's possible.

Geoschmo