Quote Originally Posted by Foot
You must remember that rebel spawning drastically increases when you put up the taxes. Only put up the taxes of your cities when you are gearing up for war and need to support a larger army. When I have my cities all on normal taxes I hardly every get rebel spawns.

Foot
But then how do you prevent massive population explosion? I didn't build any farms upgrades in Kart-Hadast and the city still went all the way up to 40,000+ before the growth finally stopped. If it wasn't for the fact that I have taxes to the max, it would prolly be 60,000+ by now. Granted, it's my capital so not a problem to control but there are other cities getting way big, such as Syrakousai.