How does a city revolt decide whether it becomes rebels or the original owner?

[henyo10]

Hmm I was wondering because there were times when a city revolted such as Constantinople and it becomes a rebel town but other times it reverts back to the original nation. How does one determine this?

[Carrack]

I think it depends on how long the previous faction held the settlement for, but I'm not really sure myself.

[Sorkenlol]

If it becomes the same as the original owner it must've been that they got bribed, never happened to me so I'm not sure.

[Theseus1234]

oh well i've had a loyalist revolt before after i gave a city to my enemy. the garrison was almost non-existent and the populace rebelled into my hands
i think it's just if the city has been taken within the last 5 turns or so and if the public order is really low. if the it's been longer than a certain amount of time, it will probably be a rebel

[Zeeky_Bomb]

I once had a Loyalist revolt in an HRE village that I never even came near with a diplomat (playing as Novgorod), so I have no idea how they work. It was maybe 15 turns in and we had no border.

[lifeonmars]

i've only had a loyalist revolt as tuetionic knights in kingdoms some island called arensburg decided they preffered me to the Danes YAY

[Double A]

This only happened once to me, and it was in Rome. I was some Roman faction (blues) and I got the great idea to go to that place south of Numidia and Carthrage and bribe it with a diplomat because it was rebel. Well, apparantly the settlement revolted (but by that time I had all of Greece and France because that's where the Senate kept giving me the frikin missions! I mean, they hadn't even told me to get Carthrage!) and decided to turn NUMIDIAN. I'm like, WTF? THEY WERE REBELS!!