MRE vs Food Rations?

[Stretchytall]

What's the difference between the Terran MRE and Food Rations. Can they both be used to feed workforces? If so, which is better?

[Winter's Embers]

Each species eats it's own food. MRE is for Terran population, food rations are for Argon and Antigone populations.

[Konril]

Yeah, even though the Argon and Terran are both "human," they still act like they're different species. Food rations are Argon produced and made out of wheat, meat, and spices. Argon population centers eat food rations but not MREs. MRE are terran food, made out protein paste, which is in turn made out of ice and methane. Terran population centers will eat Terran MRE, but not Argon food rations. This is very similar to the fact that Teladi population centers want to eat nostrop oil, and Paranid population centers will want to eat soja husk and will turn their collective noses up at other foods. Make sense?

If you ask me which is better, I would say the Argon food rations paired with Argon habitation. This is for two reasons. First, it is much cheaper. Second, Terran living quarters for some strange reason only house half the population per module. So you need to build more living quarters to support enhanced production. However I would still use Terran MREs and Terran population in Terran space, simply because of how different their build components are. It's much easier to build with local parts than to haul the other kind of parts across the jump network.

[Geist]

Terrans don't trust Argon food. Could be made from AGI farmed ingredients

[Doom]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

What's the difference between the Terran MRE and Food Rations. Can they both be used to feed workforces? If so, which is better?

Terrans only eat terran MRE and nothing else, because only food made from synthetic protein goo can be trusted. Who knows what kind of diseases those Argon "Agnu" had.

Basically you pick food based on race you want on your stations. You want Terrans - you build terran habitats and MRE. You want Argon - you build argon habitats and argon food facilities. The interesting thing is that Medicine made by any race can be used by any other race.

[Targaryen22]

Originally posted by Konril:

Yeah, even though the Argon and Terran are both "human," they still act like they're different species. Food rations are Argon produced and made out of wheat, meat, and spices. Argon population centers eat food rations but not MREs. MRE are terran food, made out protein paste, which is in turn made out of ice and methane. Terran population centers will eat Terran MRE, but not Argon food rations. This is very similar to the fact that Teladi population centers want to eat nostrop oil, and Paranid population centers will want to eat soja husk and will turn their collective noses up at other foods. Make sense?

If you ask me which is better, I would say the Argon food rations paired with Argon habitation. This is for two reasons. First, it is much cheaper. Second, Terran living quarters for some strange reason only house half the population per module. So you need to build more living quarters to support enhanced production. However I would still use Terran MREs and Terran population in Terran space, simply because of how different their build components are. It's much easier to build with local parts than to haul the other kind of parts across the jump network.

You can get away with using different modules in the belt and Getsu Fune for terran based stations but anything deeper into terran space I would also suggest using terran modules