#why can't the NCR prioritize PROTECTING FOOD SUPPLY?

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i can never suspend disbelief in a fallout game bc wtf are these people eating. if technology is this bad then there should be MORE farmers per non farmer, because the surplus (if any!) is going to be fucking tiny. ik it's not as exciting as a world entirely populated by murderous maniacs who sleep on miraculously functional 200 year old mattresses but come on. would it be that big of a struggle to depict slightly reasonable food yields. if it was somehow a balance issue (too easy to steal food) they could instead have depicted a freshly destroyed field surrounding a scattering of empty shacks, maybe imply it was a pest, drought, etc that did it. just make the field actually big for once