(07-12-2018, 03:24 PM)Sciamach Wrote: Considering Rheinland has a considerable divide between rich and poor with a lot of people in the latter category (source: NB infocard), it's not a safe assumption that resources such as these are widely available to everyone.
.. It's a lamp. Hardly an amazing technology a thousand years of technological development from now.
Have you been to NB? The interiors are dark and grim.
So at some point, someone didn't provide the whole population with simulated outdoor spaces, and that became the norm at the capital. But that's a social choice, so its a choice about resource distribution made by people in power...
That's what we see from the things there, and that's in line with the descriptions of the planets. Cold, grim places, and population stresses in the early years.
Myeah, I'll give you that. It's all an art style choice anyway, just like the Freelancer population numbers are. Freelancer is a 90's based retro-futuristic science-fantasy story. Reasoning science and numbers into it goes beyond style and gameplay and ultimately makes no sense. Better to focus on societal and political complexities, I guess.
Honestly, I kind of think that it would've been better if Freelancer's population numbers had deliberately been kept vague.