(09-17-2023, 12:01 AM)Haste Wrote: One of the important aspects of Hydroponics and their usefulness is that food, water & oxygen are treated as regular, fully profitable commodities in the new economy, meaning they can get very pricey in remote areas. Hydroponics will allow you to save a decent chunk of money. Mineable ice fields are probably more common than you think, they're just not currently enabled server-side. It's more of a factor for people to play with when choosing building locations, as now you can choose to build a base near an ice field and rely on it for crew supplies, without having to worry about travel distances for those commodities.
Now this might be the missing context for me. As soon as the FWO starts to get expensive when hauled over longer distances or from remote places, then I can see the production modules being usefull if not as a timesaver then a money saver.
