System Population growing with 2.2!?

[TargetLost]

I might be wrong but can it be that the System Population with 2.2 is no more a fix value?

Just checked a very small System I believe that always had 20k but is very active and I now saw it listed with 65k People.
Anyone else noticed something like this or is my Memory simple wrong?

 

[Ouberos]

I heard it was going to become dynamic.

I'm assuming it paves the way for CG's where we have to help refugees escape wars between Feds and Imps or Everyone vs Alienz

 

[Loskene]

Either it updated in response to faction state changes since the last patch, or they have actually made it a dynamic function of the BGS, which would be nice.

 

[Thetele]

Can't find quote but i think same one asked this on beta section during beta (or was it one of the 2.2 live streams?) and someone from frontier said that there is no changes or new "population mechanics". Population is still static.

The universe in elite isn't made by people but by algorithm. Some changes to algorithm in 2.2 may have caused that it generated universe little bit different in some places. So basically the system just slammed randomly different population to system than before from some pool of possible population for that kind of system. I doubt that it was change made by dev, but just random change that happened because of some other change.