26.62 for a PQ 10 planet. there is a bug that denies you the bonus from an improvement if you finish building immediatly after you upgrade the tech. seeing as how your just about 10b from your target i am guessing you had this problem. do NOT destroy any of your old farms, but add one additional one to see if that gets your pop growing again. this is suggested as a test, not a solution. if it IS the cause you can consider loading a save before you got the farm techs and go from there.

i should mention that there is not that much benefit from having that many ppl on a planet that size, but perhaps your trying for more influence...

i don't usually put that many ppl on a planet less than PQ 15. you get more money by adding stock markets. ppl for infuence or troops tho may be good reasons in your situation tho.

Might also have something to do with the old version of the game. You really should update to 1.2

agreed.

You shouldn't be saying there is a bug if your using out of date stuff.
Its like people who complain about the game and they post there debug and there vid. drivers are from 1992

Never seen it myself. Recognize that PQ4 planets are capped at 2.6 Bil, PQ5 planets are capped at 4.3 Bil. That is their max potential.

But the OPs problem is unusual--the max capacitiy of a PQ10 planet is around 26 Bil. So it shouldn't stall at 17 Bil with enough farms and morale.

...Unless it is the dredded lost production bug.