Losing Population, positive food

[Pomegranate_Fan]

Did some looking around the forums, and people mention that they occasionally lose non-player faction population sometimes. Everyone says "oh you've probably got negative food," but that's not the issue for me. I definitely have positive food, and nearly full population on my system.

What other reasons are there for non-faction population loss?

[Pomegranate_Fan]

It's "Population Lost." Not Population Decreasing. (decreasing is from negative food I believe)

[meiam]

I had that happened too,I think it's just your pop passivly moving around from one system to another, when one systme is full but there's place elsewhere they just spread around by themselve.

[Pomegranate_Fan]

I see. I suppose that doesn't bother me. I do have them moving from a 13/17 population system which kinda made me go "grrrr," but hey, I suppose it's ok.

[M(i)ech]

Did you use... conscription or however it's called? There's a tech which allows to turn unit of population into 300 manpower.

[Pomegranate_Fan]

That's the chain gang program I think. I actually didn't research that. Good thought though.