I am playing a game with abundant everything. My strategy is to conquer a couple planets in each system, build influence starbases and influence increasing buildings and then capture the last 1 or 2 planets in each system using influence alone. This plan was working great and for a period of about 15 or 20 turns I was capturing an average of about 1 planet a turn through influence and rebellion. Then about 15 turns ago I captured (by military conquest) an enemy planet that had the Mind Control Centre Galactic Achievement on it. Since this turn I have not captured a single enemy planet by influence/rebellion. This notwithsatnding that there are approximately 15 to 20 enemy planets with the angry red face indicating that rebellion is possible. On some of these planets my influence is in excess of 25x my opponents. I understand that the Mind Control Centre does not (as the description indicates) increase the liklihood of enemy planets rebelling, but rather increases your economic rating. But is it possible that owning the mind control centre actually stops enemy planets from rebelling? I just find it too coincidental that I was turning a planet or 2 every turn until I got this damn thing, and now nothing. By the way I don't think the cause of my not turning planets is because of their loyalty rating. The Yor are not in the game and prior to my capturing the "Mind Contol Centre" planet I had turned 5 or 6 Thalan Planets. My main enemies at the present time are the Atarians, the Terrans and the Drath. Also I have restarted the game several times to reset everything. Anyone have any other suggestions? Maybe I was just getting lucky for those 15 turns or so, or I'm just getting unlucky now.