PQ 5 Planets Have Low Population Rate

Is this normal?

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I've noticed, on several occaisons, that some planets don't seem to grow very fast. I've actually been paying specific attention lately, and I've discovered that it's pretty simple--any planet of PQ 5 or lower "only" gains 1 million (0.001 billion) people per week, even with my +120% reproduction rate.

It's easy enough to transport more people in (especially with my bonuses in my most recent game), but I've never heard anything about this. Is it normal?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The growth rates for PQ5 and under worlds seem to be normal to me but the population seems to only grow to around 4.6-4.7B on a PQ5 world and 2.6-2.7 on a PQ4 world. Have noticed there seems to be population growth limits for PQ8 and PQ9 worlds too. You can still put in farm tiles and then transport in population.

Personally I just filter off population into transports so that i still get population growth. Get a few transports early from the low PQ worlds while my higher PQ worlds are growing population up to have a good economy.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wish, instead of automatically changing all tiles needing it, that the Terraformer would just upgrade all planets by, say, 10%, with a minimum of 1 PQ class improvement, because PQ5 and below rarely seem to have any yellow, orange, etc. squares you can make habitable.
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