"New" infos: Grey morality and crafting...

Not really such a drag as long as you don't do it too much, do it in small incrments, I found, still keeps things fresh.  Even with a normal play through play session I can collect a lot of materials.

I spent a perk to get "special" items to appear on merchants from time to time, and I was going to get that armor!  

Too bad it turned out to be based on a RNG and said merchant could carry THREE different schematics (or none of them) any given time you visited. 

There was this weird bug/feature in DA:I where if you looted a container only partially, leaving at least one item behind, the game wouldn't flag that container as looted, next time the area loaded it would have another bunch of random loot. Cradle of Sulevin was an ok place to repeatedly grind recipes, there was also an easy farming chest in some cave close to travel point, the name escapes me. All in all, a terrible drag, having to find blueprints again fills me with dread.

Why does it make it arguably more difficult? The only difference is the number of war assets. Since the extended cut lowered the number to 3100, for the breath scene, it doesn't matter
Its not. Having Wreav in charge and sabotaging the cure will give more war assets when the number includes the assets from the salarians
Playing a paragon can do more damage than a renegade depending on the playthrough

Just in case folks want to know, they can look at this thread to know more about war assets

For me it's really a drag, even if it's something you do only while you are travelling to a new destination. It makes it all much slower. Even just buying materials was tiresome at times, as said Wulfram in an earlier post, thanks to all the loading screens (I really hate loading screens, one the best news I've got regarding MEA is no load screens in the Tempest ). I hated the resource gathering quite a bit, and I only bother with crafting if I'm doing a completionist pt, in fact.

I'm optimistic about MEA though, it seems it might be less annoying.

Lithium gathering screen was more exciting than DAI inventory? I'm curious what makes you think so.

of course, lythium it's just more fun I'm not talking about the whole crafting system, because my problem was not with crafting itself, only resource gathering, and, apparently now the nomad can help you with that (here I'm taking only others posters word for it, because I missed where or when this was explained), animations seem to take less time and in one the videos we could see that scanning a piece of lythium gave us 40 units or something like that , or that's what it seemed (which, of course, will mean nothing if it turns out that to build a helmet you need 1000 units of lythium, but I'm hoping that's not the case).

Yeah, which is kind of my original point. Highlighting the fact that there's already plenty of gray decision-making in the original trilogy. The concept isn't new for MEA.



As a D&D veteran I never really had an issue except when it seemed to veer from Law vs Chaos to Good vs Evil. Some of the Renegade stuff went a bit far, I thought, to the point where I started not liking my Shepard! I reserved one Shepard for the full on black sheep, Shepard. She was the only one where I could bring myself to let all the hostages die in the Bring Down the Sky dlc.



Some Paladins can be real bastards, really. Inflexible, intolerant, unforgiving fanatics! LG to the max

The vast majority of krogan do live on Tuchanka, though.  Including all their fertile females.  They may have adapted to it, but it certainly isn't ideal for them.

Sure krogan are tough.  But they still have insane customs like fighting thresher maws on foot to prove their manhood.

They got to spend a thousand years living in the bombed-out wreckage of their old civilization with no hope of recovery.  Yeah there will be plenty of krogan out for payback for that, but there will be other krogan out there who will want to rebuild the krogan and keep this from happening again.  Like I said, it's a question of whether you trust Wrex and Eve to make something better of the krogan.  Have enough adopted their way of thinking?

I only ever cure the genophage because I knew BioWare wouldn't ask me to face the consequences. There is no way I'd ever actually trust the krogan to turn around so quickly. Just because Wrex is my buddy, and says they'll change? Riiiiight.

The salarians screwed the krogan when they uplifted them. Now, though, the krogan should fix themselves. If they want a cure, let them settle their aggressive natures enough to develop real krogan science. A krogan scientist can cure the genophage. Anyone else would be insane to do so. If they got to the point of being able to even attempt real research, develop and display a peacable culture, etc... then maybe someone pitches in with assistance.

The krogan dying is acknowledged to be a psychological/cultural problem by Wrex as far back as ME1. In addition to being violent and disgruntled by default krogan are pretty fatalistic. They've convinced themselves they have no future so they fight and die randomly so much I'd be tempted to list "self destructive tendency/ borderline suicidal" as the Hat of the genophaged krogan. I think there's even a quote along the lines of "ask a krogan what they'd rather have, a cure to the genophage or a fight and they'll choose the fight every time."

As for krogan migration, again you have to ask (or rather answer) how will these krogan move from planet to planet. They have no resources to build ships or even trade for ships. Again, it's EDI's logistical discussion multiplied by a thousand. To be anywhere near a threat again, you'd need a long laundry list of implausible things to happen, likely in order:

1. Centralize power (unite the clans). Wrex/Wreave has done this but as we've discussed the basis for his powerbase goes up in smoke with the genophage. Alternatively have one clan strong enough to make galactic plays. There are none.
2. Somehow acquire ships, weapons, armor and more base supplies like food and medicine on a massive scale to support not only existing numbers but the expected population boom.
3. Protect the Shroud and somehow ensure it keeps pumping out the cure. Bring in the rest of the krogan from everywhere in the galaxy to also get cured.
3. Train your massive amount of offspring for war. Remeber krogan aren't rachni- they're not born fully prepared to fight. This will take some years.
4. Do all of the above without attracting attention. Yeah, subtle krogan. That'll be the day.

And probably loads more of intermediate steps I'm forgetting. We also can't assume the krogan move in a vacuum while the other races are static and do nothing. I mean I know the Council are idiots but you can't honestly expect them to fall for "just one more planet" again. The krogan will be watched, very carefully. Also, if we're talking population explosion, we're talking population explosion, long before we get to generations later of "one more planet". There are indications that with the genophage lifted a lot of the krogan will "get busy". That is, bone rather recklessly, forgetting they have no infrasturcture and resoures on their planet to handle all those births. Without strict population control from day one (which we have seen zero indication the krogan have even considered), the krogan will start going in the red rather fast. At that point they'll need help from the other species or starve. And at that point, the other species would have to be complete idiots to render help, not just from a "did we learn nothing" perspective but also from the "hey we just came out of a war and have our own rebuilding/hardships to deal with". The krogan won't be able to rely on handouts long enough to become a threat without the tiniest shred of forethought towards long term growth management goals, which again, we've seen zero evidence for.

Finally, regardless of which ending you choose, there's bigger fish in teh galaxy. Leviathans, combined geth/quarians, Reapers. There's just no contest. The Krogan Rebellions happend not because the krogan were unbeatable but because they were armed and specifically made to be the biggest baddest thing in the galaxy. These days though, after their fall from grace? They're nowhere near that top dog spot, and they never will again, not with their (lack of) strategy.