My population refuses to grow; now what?

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Why won't my population grow? At all? I searched the forum for "population growth" and read the relevant articles. My planets are all well below the maximum population according to planet quality, my approval is 100%, there is plenty of excess food on every planet, no one has invaded any of my planets, I didn't select any racial growth penalties.

This is ridiculous. How am I supposed to be able to win if my population refuses to increase?!?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Can you post a screen shot of the planet in question? I'm pretty sure you are getting a PQ display bug (try counting the tiles instead of looking at the number).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And FYI, there are no "growth penalties." In fact, there are no negative traits in GalCivII at all.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes there is. At 40% Morale and less, population stop growing, and at 19% Morale and less, you start losing people on the planet each turn.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
what he meant was there are no "penalities" you can take. like you cant say ok ill take a hit in pop growth in exchange for a boosted econ. he just meant that you cant have a penalty like that. but kalin is correct in the fact that morale does affect things like that.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've noticed this bug on some of my planets too, and I've already sent a saved game to stardock. It usually happens to one or two planets that refuse to grow beyond a certain point (usually low billions) no matter how many farms you add or what the approval rating is. I think I also noticed this bug tends to be with low PQ planets (like Mars, etc) and not on higher PQ planets.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At a certine point, based on the planets PQ, pop. won't grow on it own. people need to be transpoted manualy. I suggest troop transports for the job.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Its not a bug Link



Based on that chart, Earth's maximum population should be 26, yet I couldn't get it past 13.89

Oh well, downloading the update seems to have fixed it. But that led to a whole bunch of other problems, of course. . . sigh.