Thanks for finding this oversight.

For point 6) are you sure you did not had maxed out again meanwhile or you converted many prisoners (which also occupy population)?

Have also a look here:
http://brightrockgames.userecho.com/topics/1628-steamworks-not-initilized/#comment-7600
Rebooting fixes it almost always.

Thanks for keeping us updated.
I got another question: Do you play with V-Sync on or off?

> Thought the alpha-bugs were purged from the game. Would be splendid if you could fix it.
Believe me it worked fine since ages and we never got any report like this again.
So either we recently broke something or you found a unique new way to break it ;)

> I am stuck. Is there a console cmd to auto win a map?
No unfortunately either try an earlier save or it would be a redo.
However I am well disposed if you redo it it would work fine as it did always work and also worked when we tried to replicate your issue.

We tried to replicate this internally but we couldn't reproduce the problem.
When you run into such trouble please always grab and update the output_log as it shows us if any error did occur and often helps to track problems down.
Here is explained how:
http://brightrockgames.userecho.com/topics/118-how-to-submit-a-bug-ticket/

We will have a look at your save games though.

Hey Webbernever1,
thanks for your report (ps. I love your creative workshop maps ;).
But for the future, please create separate reports for each unique issue.
The reason is that it makes the internal management of bug reports much simpler.
Each issue can fall into responsibility of a different person and with separate tickets, issues can be assigned to different persons and resolved at different times.

Now we will see how we convert this one into internal tickets.
But thanks for reporting bugs and participating int the community anyway :)