KnutAreMykland

That is not odd. i just won a peaceful game on a small map vs 3 godlike AI With only 2 planets. Each of those planets had 200-300 pop With 100% approval by the end game. By turn 211 i had all Techs and my Tech victory score was 711. Yor and other syntetics loose 0.1 pop per turn from overpoulation. but they gain 8 per turn from ultimate Assembly. So by midgame and onwards they simply have lots of pop Research and wealth. Around 9000 Research per planet, or 5k Production.

Syntetic races disables growth. therefore they have no limit. However not building any approval buildings is a big no. the penalty goes all the way to -75% as your pop level increases. The penalty for going over the food/pop limit is negative growth, syntetic races have no growth. therefore they have no penalty to going over the pop limit.

They really do need to fix that pop limit for syntetics. On turn 6 i had 37 pop. On turn 9 I had 100% approval rateing. on turn 100 i had 7 colonies With 160 pop each. it was on normal speed standard settings With a custom civ(syntetic/prolific). it would have been even bigger if i had a bigger map. And that was not even close to optimally played.