If you create a map using the editor and use it ingame, all races only start out with a population of 1 billion even if a planet is set to their homeplanet. (8 billion is the standard that it should be)

I loaded the default maps that shipped with the game and they all have 1 billion as well.

My apologizes if this is intended, but without the 8billion starting population the AI goes falls flat on its face, unable to expand properly since you need a minimum of 2 billion to expand without depleting your population.

I get that if you start without a home world/planet you would only have as much population as your colony ship allows. But thats something entirely different.

Is there some header data that is supposed to be manually edited into the map file to correct this or?