Gammerz Ah, now.
OK, so farming actually requires quite a lot of power, to keep the farming domes or beds going. And there’s a way to generate power from geothermal / geo magnetic stuff, which is essentially free power and nowhere near as costly as solar power and batteries and all that.
But you can’t ‘tap’ that power anywhere though, it’s only in specific places that you find with the scanning visor. You find a spot, build a power plant on it, bingo! Almost unlimited free power.
So what I did was I found one of those spots and built a specialised farm there, with the farmer NPC and as many domes full of plants as I could manage. It’s a completely separate base in a different place. Brave did the same for a couple of mineral deposits, so he has effectively a couple of ‘mine bases’.
One of the best ‘economic cycles’ in the game is to grow certain plants to make components (mixed with a few things you get from frigate missions) to manufacture… statis modules I think they’re called? Sell for roughly 15 million credits a pop.