Synth Foods vs. various farmers

[ugliestmoose]

First off, this looks like a very interesting book and I see that it won the Hugo. I'll definitely have to check it out, so thanks for the recommandation.

As for relating the ideas back to Disco, it just makes me wish all the more that Freelancer was a deeper game than the sophisticated arcade shooter that it is. If bases had finite amounts of commodities, and had to be stocked with enough essential items like food and water, then Synth Foods would have actually have something tangible to do ingame. But sadly...I doubt it's even possible to code this. *sigh*