unknow. untested. very hard to test.
there are two good posts of falconfly in BGS mega-thread on this question:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-and-the-Background-Sim?p=5551957#post5551957
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-and-the-Background-Sim?p=5586178#post5586178
generally, population changes only show (or happen) during major patches.
watching population changes myself in the regions at the edges i play at, my impression is they are bound to commander traffic/activity somehow, as i don't see FDEV adjusting the population manually in thousands of systems.
there are two good posts of falconfly in BGS mega-thread on this question:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-and-the-Background-Sim?p=5551957#post5551957
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-and-the-Background-Sim?p=5586178#post5586178
generally, population changes only show (or happen) during major patches.
watching population changes myself in the regions at the edges i play at, my impression is they are bound to commander traffic/activity somehow, as i don't see FDEV adjusting the population manually in thousands of systems.