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**nintenda** · 06-13-2011, 02:33 PM

If you can terraform a bit of desert:

1. There's still not going to be a lot of water, you'd think that many other less water intensive crops would be a good choice, even if you are fully efficient and never lose any water it's a lot of water to be tied up in a field.
2. There's technology around or being designed to fully automate rice production. If you have the technology to terraform a desert you'd be able to automate so much you'd only need a couple of people to run it probably.
3. If you did need bulk labour I can't see how making and training clones could be cheaper than either automation or shipping in ready made peasants with the skills you need.

06-13-2011, 02:33 PM	#10
nintenda Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 621 Senior Member	If you can terraform a bit of desert: 1. There's still not going to be a lot of water, you'd think that many other less water intensive crops would be a good choice, even if you are fully efficient and never lose any water it's a lot of water to be tied up in a field. 2. There's technology around or being designed to fully automate rice production. If you have the technology to terraform a desert you'd be able to automate so much you'd only need a couple of people to run it probably. 3. If you did need bulk labour I can't see how making and training clones could be cheaper than either automation or shipping in ready made peasants with the skills you need.
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