Quote Originally Posted by JeromeBaker View Post
Will the senate loyalists eventually appear no matter what you do or is there a posibility that if you keep things somewhat equal between houses that you can avoid this?
Initially I thought that managing my senate influence so as not to let it get too high would avoid civil war. Early this morning I discovered otherwise, and the fight was on. I had 55% influence at the time, which I'd maintained pretty steadily for nearly 100 turns, so I had thought it was working. Nope, not so much. I'm not prepared yet to say either "it's totally random" or "it's inevitable no matter what you do", but if it IS triggered by a certain circumstance, then I remain baffled as to what that circumstance is.

One thing that occurred to me: while I had maintained a steady 50-60% range of influence for a long time, I had only crossed threshold to the highest level of imperium (12 armies, 4 edicts, etc) only a couple of turns before. Perhaps that's a factor...maybe the civil war doesn't trigger until you're big enough to deal with it?