Morale decreases as population decreases. So does the effective value of your morale buildings. This is intentional, to prevent massively populated planets. Your homeworld has low morale because it caps at 16 billion and all your other planets cap at 8 billion (before farms). Due to the morale issues above, there is never a reason to put a farm on a homeworld, and no more than one on any regular planet (there are exceptions, but for a beginner this is close enough). DO NOT USE farm bonus tiles, especially the 300% ones. Ideally, aim for 12-16 billion people on PQ11+ worlds and stick to the 8 billion cap for anything PQ10 and below.

Note that tax income is based on the square root of population, not linear increase. This means at 13 billion you are giving up about 25% of the income you could get at 20 billion, but need fewer morale structures and can easily make up that 25% by building more stock markets.

Being pop capped is a good thing, as it means your morale won't be getting worse. For the other planets, I'd suggest getting rid of farms on bonus tiles (make sure to rush build a non-bonus one, then demolish the bonus farm on the same turn to minimize population loss) and just demolishing farms on any planets that exceed the guidelines above. When the farm is gone, any population above the cap simply disappears when you push turn.

For your homeworld, get rid of any farms. If nothing else, turn your homeworld into a transport spam factory. If you build them fast enough, you will use population to load them faster than they can regenerate. Or build transports elsewhere and only partially load them, then fill them up on your homeworld.

I can't help you with the governor problems, I've never used one.

Thanks for the helpful tips. My moral issue is indeed I think from to big of a population when I figured the buggers where whining no more room and wanted more population room. My bad moral planets all have farms and most of them built on farm tiles. I started out with Masters of Orion 1, 2, and 3 which are similiar games before I moved to GC and then GC2+ and in MoO the bigger the pop the better especially on high quality worlds. Will now fix that issue.

Far as the Governors last night figured out some more of how to use like didn't realize on the colonize spreadsheet mode (which I had been using) I can click on the shipyards to build what I want on which planets. Downfall is would be nice to have a ship governor option to build X on whatever planets have so much military production or higher since 50+ worlds only 15 of them build ships fairly fast and having them on auto on rest of planets just drains my funds for other efforts. Also saw how on colonize is when you can use a governor to auto build the basics. Wondering though if you can set a govenor after colonize? I keep skipping on accident that selection option and would think on planetary screen would be an option asking which govenor to use.

Build  a political capital (50%) or that Altarian Shrine (75%) on home world.  Even better on bonus tiles.

Thanks Corlanis. I've gotten so tired of aquiring new worlds through war and finding either the enemy had no buildings besides a starport.... they get destroyed... or unusable. Generally makes most planets I aquire have almost nothing on it except a few crap buildings in the build queue or just that crap buildings compaed to mine.

It's always a good idea to buy techs off of other civs to avoid the planet stripping after an invasion. You may never intend to keep that slave pit, but it's better to have it to help build an actual factory in its place after the invasion. The same goes with all the various morale and econ buildings; even if they are inferior to your stock markets, they do give *some* bonus, and upgrading them is cheaper than building from the ground up.