German server had this after maintenance and they did a hotfix that took 4 hours yesterday. Why then have they allowed this update to go through when they knew in advance this would happen???
Edit: Ok seems to be you have to kill troops to get a deficit then they add - not sure on those who werent over-populated have dealt with it. A more thorough explanation prior to release of this "fix" would have saved a lot of posts on the subject, and saved a lot of the MODS time in both g1 and Help channels...