Free influence exploit?

[Martok]

Interesting, Biggus Diccus; I haven't really noticed whether that phenomenon happens in my games. My experience is virtually identical to Dues ret.'s. As a rule, my faction leader's influence decreases by a factor of 1 for every 2 provinces that are lost, regardless of wether it's rebels or a specific faction that drove me out of a province (and vice versa, of course).

I rarely lose provinces to rebellions, however, so I don't really have a basis for comparison. I might start a throw-away campaign this weekend and see if I can reproduce what happened to you. If it does turn out to be an exploit, you may be the first to have found it, as I don't know that anyone's mentioned it before now. It's interesting how one can still discover little things about this game, even after four years.