[BUG] Colony gets free population.

I set my colony ships at the start of a game to only have 0.5 population on them, the minimum. I noticed that some of my colony's get to 3 pop very very quickly, found this strange so wanted to see what was going on.

I colonize a planet with a colony ship that has 0.5 pop:-

The planet has 0.5 pop and you can see it is only gaining 0.3 pop a turn:-

I purchased a colony ship. The ship is ready the next turn, so the colony should only have 0.8 population. I launch the colony ship(the slider shows 3 population):-

Planet now has 3 population:-

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00zim00

Join Date 09/2014

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So the act of producing the colony ship is what auto ups the pop to 3? By chance do you know how much pop Venus has the turn before? Im curious if it is stealing pop from Venus to be able to hit the minimum 3 pop.

Also I know ill sound like a broken record, but does it do it with mods off ? Since you do have Venus as a habitable planet.

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Horemvore

Join Date 08/2009

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Mod off? Are you mad! (Not tried with the mod off, dont do vanilla, ever)

Yep its the production of the colony ship, or rather the slider to do with pop controll that gives the free population. Venus had 0.5 pop the turn before (2nd screenshot). Earth however seems to lose 1.5 pop in them 2 turns, 0.5 to the colony ship, and well the rest? Who knows!

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