I am playing a DA sandbox game, normal difficulty, on a gigantic map with max players. I have set up scatterd, rare, hospitable planets. Essentially I have Earth and Mars and that is it(I am playing Terran). I was lucky and found 3 minors races each with one planet, in the same system. I took them over very early in the game, which made everyone else very nervous and essentially divded the galaxy between the good races on one side and the neutral and evil races on the other. pretty much I have 5 races which have declared war on me. I also noticed something very wierd my tax rates were very high like 71% and my apporval was also at about 80%. I didn't think too much about it until I was assulting the Inconians and making troop ships on Earth and I didn't have enough population to support filling 2 ships! I mean 2+ years or so into the game earth should have way more then 1.5 billion people. So checked my population and everywhere was super low mars has 300,000! I looked the some of the charts and noticed that all races were very low population. In fact everyone was losing population very rapidly. I have turned things around and have my approval rating up to 100%, and am currently research population growth techs. It seems like my population is gaining instead of losing population. What would cause this to happen to everyone? Has anyone else experienced the mass population loss?