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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 426767" data-attributes="member: 177">Funny, I don't see many hydroponic farms out there, we still need huge tracts of land.&nbsp; Hydroponics is expensive even today, and is nowhere near being advanced enough to feed a nation.&nbsp; For anyone with technology lesser than our own, actual fertile dirt is required.We were asked to talk about what happens to society when we add this one thing.&nbsp; Not if we add this one thing, and a knowledge of hydroponics beyond that of the greatest tinker gnomes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And, even today, this &quot;technology&quot; wouldn't crate a big push for hydroponics.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because the gain isn't great compared to the cost.&nbsp; While you could perhaps grow much more food per square mile, it would cost lots and lots in infrastructure.&nbsp; The capital outlay to build the hydroponic farms would be astronomical, and every singe thing you'd build would require upkeep.&nbsp; Normal farming doesn't call for that capital outlay, and has far fewer constructions to keep up. Overgeneralization, as far as RPGs are concerned.&nbsp; There are lots of different governmental forms in games, and only some of them have the government run by the people who own the industry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 426767, member: 177"] Funny, I don't see many hydroponic farms out there, we still need huge tracts of land. Hydroponics is expensive even today, and is nowhere near being advanced enough to feed a nation. For anyone with technology lesser than our own, actual fertile dirt is required. We were asked to talk about what happens to society when we add this one thing. Not if we add this one thing, and a knowledge of hydroponics beyond that of the greatest tinker gnomes :) And, even today, this "technology" wouldn't crate a big push for hydroponics. Why? Because the gain isn't great compared to the cost. While you could perhaps grow much more food per square mile, it would cost lots and lots in infrastructure. The capital outlay to build the hydroponic farms would be astronomical, and every singe thing you'd build would require upkeep. Normal farming doesn't call for that capital outlay, and has far fewer constructions to keep up. Overgeneralization, as far as RPGs are concerned. There are lots of different governmental forms in games, and only some of them have the government run by the people who own the industry. [/QUOTE]

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