Population decline - anyone know what can cause it in this case.

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I have a planet that has the population dropping at a very high rate.

The planet is a 17 class planet (orginally 16), Universal Moral is at around 75%, planet moral is lower (around 40-50), and money is also being put into the moral slider bar.

The planet had a special of a pre-stellar race on it which I took as slaves for the +37 production bonus.
Its within my infulence sphere (being right beside two 32 class planets just in the star system next door in fact).

I have a population growth stat of +50 (I like randy populations), Government is Universalists. Currently not at war with anyone.
Game is still young, Tech level is around Advanced Trade/Shields/High Density Metals.

Am I just missing something that explains why my planet is losing ~20-25% of its population per turn (being boosted by transport at the moment)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The dofus that just typed that also meant to say Its version 1.03 - updated last night off Stardock. :d
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The only natural cause of population decline is low morale, which can in turn be caused by overcrowding. Since you have been deliberately ferrying people to this planet, my guess is you have exceeded this planet's capacity for population and indirectly killed off all those poor colonists that could not be supported.

Your natural rate of population growth is determined by morale as well, and the "pop growth" ability is then applied on top of that. If the morale of a planet is in the 50% range, it will be near or at its population capacity and no significant growth will occur naturally.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Can a planet have a 'overcrowding' level of 7million?
Thats how low its gotten between shuttling 400 mill (less than half a transport) to it.
(ie, the population has not been above 500 and falls as low as 7 (it got boosted then to avoid it dying out))
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Doh, thats what happens/comes of posting from your mates house. Read that last statement as from Von.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
You are probably being destabilized if your population on a class 17 planet is evening out at the 7 million mark. Invest some cash into espionage and see if you can find out who is subverting your empire.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Also, high taxes will cause population to go down. I remember from the docs that the population you see is actualy the *taxable" population, not the total. So if taxes are too high, the amount of people that can pay them goes down, thus a simulated population decline. Try lower taxes if you have them above 50% as a test for a few turns and see if that it.