So, about the Tempest....

As does the Nomad and shuttles. Vehicles in Mass Effect are always somehow given weird proportions where it doesn't appear like people of average height can actually fit in them. Walk up to the Normandy when it's docked in ME1. It's positively tiny compared to the internal dimensions in relation to some areas of its interior. 

I tend to hand-wave it away. You can headcanon/role-play the layout and why it was scaled that way, but ymmv. I do agree the scale is off, though. Off topic, but I like to think of the pet pyjack as kind of like a cat in its mannerisms.

I'd go along with that, but Zia doesn't last long enough to get the chance. 

Have you seen my Pathfinder flirting? It's pretty obvious at least 4 or 5 of the crew were meant to be staying in there with me.

Surprised he didn't just bunk up in the cargo bay like Wrex did.

Very much this, the Pathfinder is an explorer and first contact emissary, I know some folk are not used to the idea, after all Shepard was a soldier first, took me a while to cotton on, but where as combat was integral to Shepard's story, it's incidental to the Ryder twins story, we're told this almost from the beginning by Alec Ryder, first contact protocol.


I have to say though, it took some time for the tempest to grow on me, I'd prefer something with a little more body too it, I almost feel like the tempest is a paper dart, but once I'd figured out the core story, I finally get it. 

Am I the only one who was very uncomfortable with the bunking situation on the ship? And I don't mean my Vetra romance.

I'm the guy who doesn't like housekeeping cleaning after me even in fancy hotels, and the Pathfinder's quarters were just way too much; especially since the other crew members didn't even have indivudal or at least multiple quarters. Half of the size would have been more than enough, especially since all the possible functions (having conferences, viewing planetary holo, email, etc) are mostly covered in other already existing areas of the ship.

After DAI and to an extend, ME3, I just think BioWare is going too overboard with their godlike player character pandering. It seems like their new thing is coming up with silly ranks, and appointing those obscene, nonsensical amounts of purple & pomp.

It's obvious that Ryder's quarters are fan service, big room, best view, push the entrance door and wall forward a couple of meters, and you got room for around another 6 bunks, perhaps even separate bunk rooms, and it would still be large with the best view.

Efficiency in power and size doesn't explain how Ryder gets a huge suite but a crew of ten shares a teeny tiny bathroom.

None of the ships or buildings or habitats in any Bioware game make much sense in the real world. It's just to be expected. 

it's his dads suite. He inherited it. Alec made perks for himself.