Expertise (Initiative Story Trailer spoilers)

I'm with you! I, too, have been hoping for this! To play a more knowledgeable/smart protagonist in an RPG! To be able to be a geek And also not get forced into dumb moments. Ideally, it would come with the option of rambling on about something in an adorkably excited manner

It would be one of my all-time favourite additions to roleplaying in Bioware games.

I'd love to be able to have a background in astrophysics, since that interests me a great deal in real life, though I would certainly like to be able to have multiple areas of study! The "astro" part would be useful for any ship Captain to know, as well as someone who uses, say, mass effect fields on a daily basis. The "physics" part would help immensely in combat as well, down to minute details like how to apply just the right amount of force where, fine-tuning ME fields for movement or striking blows.

Why be a dumb brute when you can be a smart one?

That would certainly be a cool area of study as well. If we could study aliens, I think that would be pretty high on my list of things I'd like to do! This would fit perfectly within ME:A, of course, what with trying to find and understand Remnant tech. I would find it immensely satisfying if our character could provide insight on this tech/make a breakthrough instead of Peebee always getting to do it

What a nasty woman.  Don't tell me that's what you're attracted to.  I'd name her azz captain goaway

Throw in Carnivore Culinary Arts and we have ourselves a nice little Andromeda BBQ shaping up

Seriously though, I love the brewing/distilling idea...It would be awesome to harvest some exotic new ingredients and craft some cool drinks/food for the intrepid ARK dwellers 

I've got a thing for playing botanists and people obsessed with plants so any opportunity to really support that with gameplay is appreciated.

It seems like we'll be scanning enemies, plants, areas and such and gaining lore about them, probably something like a more active form of turning in the inventory pieces in DA:I I would guess.

Whether we can then use special conversation options because we know something I don't know. It would be pretty cool though .

Off-Topic: Peter Weller was Buckaroo Banzai, Jeff Goldblum was New Jersey.

On-Topic: I'd go with Xeno-Archaeology. Sounds like we'll be exploring ancient alien ruins and vaults, so some expertise could go a long way.

I'm still really interested if we will get any level of control over the whole 'establishment of colonies' or whatever the trailer said. It would be pretty amazing if we could establish, develop and have to protect colonies that we found (and get to name) from threats we will find on that specific planet or Andromeda as a whole. I could totally see it as being an important part as to if you were successful in establishing a new 'homeworld' or beachhead for your species in Andromeda.

Perhaps you could even intervene and help the colonies of other species also sent to Andromeda. I think it would be a great lost opportunity if they don't include this in some extent.

Well, actually, that could happen. We can apparently have a pyjak as a pet (and presumably other things), so that means they either froze it or brought some DNA to restart the species. The same could be done with horses, or anything else

Flirting? At least, that's what this Ryder is bad at  Among other things of course.

On the other end of the spectrum though, it would be pretty cool if we could see Ryder do some awesome piloting at some point, or even dancing. With hopefully less clipping than DA:I  They're doing a lot of mocap this time, so who knows? I liked the short Cullen dance and would be pleased if we could do something like that again.

Pest control.

We've got a galaxy to conquer, gentlemen.

I was thinking that too re: Inquisition's scrapped Keep mechanics - so much was pulled in the last year of development from that game it's crazy, I'm hoping it's to Andromeda's benefit though: injecting them into here would work I reckon.

I also hope they take some (but not OTT) cues from Fallout 4's settlement system, so addictive.......

B--b-but she's been Ryding (genuinely unintentional typo, now deliberately left uncorrected  ) USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D (hey, as it turns out, that whole issue with running out of original horse names has only gotten worse over time. She's Encee for short.  ) since she was a wee lass! She couldn't possibly clone her. And I don't think any amount of shoving could get a horse into a human-sized cryopod.
 
Hmm, maybe if there's some Elcor-sized pods on the Nexus, we could work something out...

And agreed! I've been pushing the 'Ryder can't just be a competent dancer; she has to have amazing moves' angle since before we knew the name 'Ryder'! And in-game feats of fantastic piloting are always cool - I've actually been sorta hoping that, even if the player doesn't directly fly the ship, Ryder's still the one sitting/standing at the controls - though I fear Ryder will simply have to inherit Shepard's deranged driver tendencies in recognition of the fact that it's actually us, the unsafe-at-any-speed players, who'll be steering (or not) the Nomad.

It'd be something of a crossover with Shepard's, 'I shoot guns real gud' character trait, but perhaps we could instead indulge in a little emergency tactical console vaulting? Killer one-liner optional, but very much preferred.

In dragon age inquisition you got special dialogue options depending on background (elf/dwarf/mage etc.).

Perhaps Andromeda will add special dialogues based on service history? Medic/scientist/diplomat/grunt etc.

That would be awesome.