Biggest empire?

[Scheherazade]

What's the most number of cities you've managed to keep in an empire, with stability still at Stable or better? Which Civ and civics are you using at the end?

 

[Scheherazade]

I can get to 35 cities with the Brits and the democratic civics (universal suffrage, free speech, emancipation, free market)... but I guess that's probably nothing special... Trying to figure if I can get to 50+ cities safely? And how?

 

[Corm]

24 for me with England. Its the only civ I have had such a large Empire with and been able to manage it properly. I have definitely had more cities with Arabia (historically not since BtS) and Mongolia (again pre BtS) but my empires have always been shaky or worse.

 

[notger]

If we are at it ... can you tell me, how the size penalty for science works? Is it linear, logarithmic?
I still have the feeling that in RFC, big is beautiful and bigger nations will out-tech smaller ones (unless they trade like mad), but maybe it is just me and the chosen difficulty level that puts especially me in the tech lead.

 

[Quantumf8]

In my roman empire game, I can easily push 30+ cities, I have vassals of egypt,ethiopia, portuguese, the mayans, and the incans, all of which give me +4 stability thanks to that nice viceroyalty civic, it's just a problem of getting the funds up for it...