rebels and pirates spawn

[BossMax05]

good day

i have a problem regarding rebels and pirates.
i've set their spawn value to zero, yet they keep on popping especially in
england and northern france w/c are my territories.
i play as england, i have the vanilla m2tw.

then when i tried toggle_fow, i saw just three rebel armies in other regions.
why does these rebels just pop out in my territories?
thank you for your help

[FactionHeir]

0 actually means a high spawn rate. The higher the number the lower the rate, but you cannot make it impossible for them to appear (there always remains a tiny chance) unless you change their entries in your regions file and delete map.rwm afterwards.

Quickest and simplest way is just to set the number in descr_strat to a large number, such as 70000.

[BossMax05]

really? i thought 0 means no spawn.
thanks!
i'll try your solution