Smudboy throws another stone: ME:A Failing at the Premise (link inside)

Yeah, it's overly negative for the most part because he's so high-brow and I don't get why he bothers to counter-address minutiae in BioWare games anymore.

Smudboy....really?

I should go.

There is certainly another reason why we're going to Andromeda. People don't spend fortunes that shoudn't be possible just for the sake of exploration.

Well he raises some valid points but he really should have stayed away from the science. Andromeda is not an antimatter galaxy, and yes, the laws of physics and the periodic table are the same as the MW galaxy. I think maybe he confused going to another universe with going to another galaxy.  Still I tend to agree that the story is already broken...based on what has been presented.  My only hope is that we as a "lowly member" of the AI have no specific insights to the "real reasons" for escaping to Andromeda, and that over the course of the game those reasons are explored and explained.

Yeah but that has been apparent since the premise of Andromeda was revealed and honestly, I'm more than fine with it. I don't have to deal with the endings this way but I still get to play the next Mass Effect game: it's a win-win for me especially since I love what I've seen so far of Andromeda's plot.

Just to throw this out there but we are not going to Andromeda with even close to the population of the Citadel. The Citadel has 13.2 million people living on it (not including keepers). Gameinformer said bioware mentioned a population of 100k. Now they weren't sure it that was 'per ship' or in total but I think it's in total (ill go into that later), but even if it's not that's half a million tops. Which anyone can tell you isn't quite reaching that 13.2 million on the Citadel.

Now, why do I think it's 100k total? Ark ships aren't really bigger then the Destiny Ascension which someone pointed out has about 10k people on it. Now you might think 'well there all in cryo so obviously it's more then DA'. Weelll about that, the Arks have to function as an actual ship. It's not one giant flying box filled to the brim with cryostasis pods. It still needs to function as a ship, mess hall, bridge, all that nonsense and it has to accommodate whatever it's taking over so 10k sounds about right at that point. So 10k per ark, leaves 60k on the Nexus (which makes sense, it's a lot bigger).

Keep in mind everyone coming is coming because they want the chance on a new frontier. Which is one of the many reasons they decided not to make it all about the Reapers. Cause the second you make it about the Reapers, that's all it's about 'omg the reapers' and frankly that gets boring fast as everyone you talk to? Same goddamn reason.

As far as 'Tech' the only issue is the 'electrostatic charge buildup' which is kinda a BS premise anyway unless they line all there engines with rubber or something stupid. But we have plenty of ways of dealing with that kind of thing now and days. There's plenty of ways for them to go about 'solving' that issue for MEA. I literally cannot see it as an issue.

Beyond that the FTL 'tech' is the same. If anything it's actually on the slower end of travel for Mass Effect. Top end ships can hit 15 light years a day. Which would come out to 463-4 years to get to Andromeda at that, so we're definitely traveling slower probably to accommodate the whole static build up and diffusing of it (somewhere around 11-12 LR a day).

Well, presumably they'd have different destinations based on the needs of each species.

Even so, that still is a bit risky. They have no idea what is in the Andromeda galaxy, barely any info. Why would you risk an entire species? It would have been smarter just to integrate each ship and then just wake everyone up when they first arrived in Andromeda and figure out who's going where. Because if one ship goes down, for whatever reason, that's an entire species gone.

Also even if the ships did have different destinations I still would think each species could still find a planet that suits there needs in that destination the ship traveled. Andromeda is pretty big after all. There is no good reason to segregate the species. 

The Citadel has 17 million of inhabitants. The Arks have either 100k for each one, or the whole projects. It seems to me that the population in Andromeda is a rather really small part of the entire population in the MW (at best around a million people for species that has far more then 10 billions people each).

If this dude used his free time and his brain capabilities correctly, he could do a lot of amazing things.

BUT NOPE, he decides to spent all of this in being a stupid hater.

That's kinda the thing. I heard he was trying to start a game company with some friends at some point though. I think criticism is great when it's constructive which his often is when it's well argued and you can disagree or agree however you want with him, but really, it's also kind of easy to point out all the mistakes as he does it when you're a single person observing the mistakes potentially made due to a 100 man team spiraling their vision off track due to bad cooperation or maybe a great vision skewed by budget-constraints and chopped up content that has been stitched together. Sometimes It's also just BioWare being misguided or too simple minded for some of their biggest mistakes like the ME3 ending for example. Whether the game was rushed or not doesn't matter. Someone discussed those things and approved of them and they spent dozens of work hours animating that big ending cinematic for it.