quick Q on population growth

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Originally posted by Portly:
Why is it that my colony ships are sometimes automatically loaded with 4 population, and sometimes not? I haven't been able to see any pattern to it.

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To be more accurate: if you plan the route of the Colony ship to go through a resupply depot it will leave the planet without any population in its holds. You have to first either load any of its cargo holds manually, or first give it the order to colonize a planet, then cancel it, and replot the course to go through the resupply depot to see the ship loaded with population.