Is Completing the Construction of the Nexus a Winning Strategy?

Would not need a sign; any test of it would have drawn the Reapers like a moth unto a flame since they can detect relay travel (Proof: ME3 galaxy map running).

More than a winning strategy inside the game, I see it like a part of the game mechanics: the same way the crucible construction was the indicator of our progress in the game, I think that completing the Nexus will be the same in this game. However, contrary to the Crucible (with every single side mission it seemed we were delaying the end of the war), the Nexus construction and the side missions have more sense plotwise.

uhm...not sure about that.

See, given enough time (we are talking six centuries) the theory is that it will not matter which ending you picked because they will just blend together. With enough time to rebuild, harvest the reapers tech that was left behind or share it or bask in the green glow of the special sauce of DNA/cybernetics rewriting eugenics the end result will be so similar that Shepard's choice will be just mentioned in passing with a bit of exposition. Kinda like they did for deus ex.

Very honestly I think so, and here's why. In DAI, they said that you could upgrade Skyhold, that it would affect the outcome of the game, etc. It didn't. At least not in a meaningful way.

I think that they wanna change that status of building something from something else and have it be grander and larger than life from the original version. They wanna have it actually mean something. While it might not be mandatory to do, I think that they're gonna toss in a couple'a achievements and a few lines of dialogue for doing so.

Given that the one major gripe here on BSN about ME:A has been how the populations of 4 Council races with all the resources of an entire multi-cluster galaxy (with multiple relays) at their disposal could not possibly build the Nexus and 4 measely Arks in the 3 years between the beginning of ME1 and before the ending of ME3 because the project is so huge... I'm wondering how these same fans can even think that a group of 100,000 colonists who are also scrambling to survive in a totally alien galaxy and have access to only one cluster could possibly complete the Nexus before the end of the first installment of what Bioware describes as a possible series of games?

Personally, I don't give a shit about the endings.  I did many playthroughs and chose different endings.  By the time this Andromeda series is done, I probably won't remember what endings went with which Shepards.  I do agree, 600+ years after the fact, the effects of any of them could be "erased" via any number of sweeping retcons.  I just don't think Bioware will bother with that as much as some fans wanto box them into "dealing with" those endings and wanted to prevent them from taking the franchise to Andromeda in the first place.  What's done is done... and Bioware will likely run the series out in Andromeda for as long as it's popular (i.e. makes them some money) and then they'll maybe write a final DLC to the last installment that results in the Nexus Relay finally being completed.  My guess is that the wave goodbye to the entire Mass Effect franchise will be the flickering engines of the Tempest entering the Nexus Relay to return to the Milky Way.  FIN.

If this Andromeda doesn't sell... there won't even be a second ME:A, let alone a return to ME:T.

Did the building start at that time? Wasn't the Initiative founded in 2176? I would guess the building of the nexus and ships started in 2177/78.

you dont know, they may be pulling a "halo reach" on us, the whole unrelated halo project prior to halo 4...or in this case ME4. If the response to the new cast and crew is lukewarm maybe Bioware will decide to actually deal with the mess they made in ME3


I know a man can dream...

Because she's actually a Reaper Doomsday Device.

Especially when the krogan spread like a plague and start an interstellar war with the renewed rachni. 

We all know glyph was really running the show.

tsk tsk tsk...no fun in that, I want to see them own up to the mess they made.