Confirmed. ;) The reason it is showing this way is the population is capped to what it is currently plus tokens (likely).

Any additional added population would need 4 x (four times) county parcels to support it.

In order to add your +125 the county would need to have 932 parcels total in the county, e.g. 108 + 125 = 233; the desired population requires 233 x 4 parcels.

It's an exceedingly small county with just 238 parcels =P

It does show additional pops for tokens though - likely regardless of the number a Count may have.

(( very sweet county location btw ))

Which if I think about lol; the cap was only intended to cap the parcels for the settlement, but seems to be capping pop too. Needs a confirm or look. Cheers!

Not even here for the actual post but to say - HOLY SHIT that's an amazing looking settlement! Super cool placement!

I don't believe it's just to do with the parcel and population being capped out.

A friend with 2x Mayor titles, does show a higher amount in the brackets. If it was just a case of capping out amount of parcels - which probably has some amount to do with it, then my parcels and population would be capped at the same amount.

There's still certainly something afoot!

(And yes the location is pretty cool. Whoever lands there has an interesting spot.)