Leveling up the Nexus

This point system was a total disaster for me, not only it's annoying but it looks cheap and stupid. This is a mistake that shouldn't be repeated.

I thought it was like your progress in the main plot

You do it by customizing Skyhold, or maybe it's like the Crucible where we can actually see it getting build or not this time.

Pretty sure it's about the fact that Nexus isn't fully built when we arrive. What we do for it and what it gives is another question though.

I'm just not sure completing Nexus is mandatory part of the plot. It sounds like something which comes with a lot of mining settlement construction.

Considering the second briefing video said that they expect to finish building the Nexus on Andromeda it may have something to do with it's construction.

I can imagine the level of build up the Nexus has throughout the game will affect the main plot.

I'm guessing if you wished you could weaken the Nexus and perhaps it could be taken out at some point, assuming you side with Andromeda species or want to break contact with the Milky Way as the ARK's and Nexus are basically our only link back home.

I can totally see a choice being given late game.

This is just a recycle of DAI's power system in which you'll have to level up the Nexus in order to progress the story...which means grinding through the same dozen combat engagements over and over and over along with endlessly picking up "resources" to prepare for the final confrontation only to have none of it have any impact whatsoever. Yay, DAI in space. I'm so excited.

That's what I thought... it was pretty apparent that DAI's progression system got gutted because of time constrains, since it originally was supposed to be so much deeper. I doesn't look like BW will have the same problem with MEA.

Yeah, from what we've seen it looks like they just repurposed DAI's mechanics to fit Mass Effect, plus switched the squadmate genders a bit.

Which is something I'm not too thrilled about but won't mind either if it's done in a way that plays better. I like crafting and building upgrades, but agree that if it's mandatory for the story, it better be fun!
Scanning in ME2 to build the necessary Normandy upgrades wasn't particular fun, either. So this isn't a design flaw first introduced in DAI, the new scapegoat for everything wrong with the company these days. Nor is it something only Bioware does.

Nothing is terrible per se. It's the implementation that's key. I'm fairly confident MEA will improve on DAI's flaws. If they did a completely lazy copy, the game wouldn't have been so long in development. Fingers crossed the changes made were actually for the better!

Let's not panic just yet. All we have for now is a few words on a screenshot.
I doubt they'll implement the point system in the way they did in DA:I, given how macuh critizism they got for that (I acutaally didn't mind it that much, tbh).

They do say in the briefing that the NExus will be built fully only after arrival in Andromeda. I wonder if we'll be able to contribute to it's construction by finding raw materials/mining site, etc. That would make sense in the context of playing a pathfinder.It could be a mechanic similar to establishing the inquisition camps and mining sites in DA:I, only I would hope they show the passage of time better. I.e. when you encounter the site, you leave a beacon or something. Should ever return to the planet later, you will see an outpost/mine at that location. I hated the fact that in Inquisition, things happened instantly, there was no feeling of time whatsoever in this game.
The actual mechanic, I didn't mind, as long as they don't over do it with the collectibles (as they did in DA:I). It's mostly a question of balancing.

I'm gonna upgrade the docking section with turian life support systems. Cause "you humans are all racist!"