Children in Andromeda from Each Race?

Did you read what i have just wrote?

Hyperion is late but everyone else should already been established on the helius cluster. That was mentioned some time ago.

Ah, humans...

Last to arrive, first to fix shit up.

As usual.



Carry on.

I am not arguing that there should not be kids if people have had enough time to colonize or settle on a planet, and resources are readily available for a growing population. I am arguing against the idea of kids being a part of the Initiative from the start or having kids on a ship such as the Nexus or Hyperion where resources are limited and meant to be used to establish a colony.

It would be short-sighted to build a colony that can only run smoothly for a limited time. It would work in the beginning, but you know for sure you will run into problems if large parts of the workforce are raising children or will retire at the same time. Not impossible to manage, but avoidable, and you have no chance to get resources and people from the MW if something goes wrong.
Doing something stupid has never stopped humans from doing it anyway, but if they want to establish a lasting presence in Anromeda, I they'd better have planned far ahead.

I wouldn't imagine actually bringing children along in the pods, but I do imagine they planned for increasing the population once they've arrived in Andromeda. They have no idea how long it's going to take to find a suitable planet so there must be some kind of plan to support children on the Arks. At least, I would hope so. You can't have 20,000 young men and women in a confined space and not expect for some pregnancies to occur. I'm sure there are birth control methods, but I imagine there will be accidents and if they were smart, they'd have planned for it.

I wouldn't mind seeing kids in Mass Effect, even if they are just set dressing. To me it makes the environments look more real and lived in, and there's situations where their presence can add some additional pathos (imagine if we saw some among the refugees at the Citadel docks in ME3, or even on Omega in the quarantine area in ME2). And it didn't really make sense that there were no kids running around on the Presidium in the trilogy. Especially where you talk to that couple about 'their' child, but both times said child is conspicuously absent.

That said, I could understand lore reasons for them to not be there at the AI's beginning because putting kids into cryo for that long seems way irresponsible, but we do arrive late. Even if it's a couple years, at least some people would have given birth by the time we arrive. Also, if we visit populated established cities (like those of the Angara) it would make perfect sense to see a couple Angaran kids running around. Now, I don't expect to see them, mostly because of the resources involved (we're only just seeing females of all the species this time around, because resources), but it'd be pretty cool.

And for the record, I have a kid. And my game time is definitely my kid-free time. I voted 'no' to having my own in the game in that thread. But again, I think their inclusion could add to the environment like any background NPC does. I'm actually kind of surprised at the hostility toward the idea. It's not like any of the listed games who have kids in them force you to interact with them, and when you do choose to it's fairly brief.

Doubtful. It'd be a waste of resources for Bioware to create children from several races just for a lore piece.

IMO, the whole project is stupid to begin with I can agree that one shouldn't do something like this wiithout a little planning for the future, but how can you plan something like this? How can you even possibly estimate how many of those 20000 human are still going to be alive after the first year with so many unknowns? You should plan, but I honestly don't think you can... So, if you're going anyway (and I can't possiby imagine why  ) I'd worry first and foremost about the most inmediate problem... At worst, you have around 40-50 years to figure out the age gap problem (which btw, I'm not sure it's should actually be a big problem, because a 30 year gap might not be that relevant depending it on life expectancy rates, levels of health in older people, reproductive cicles, etc.).  I understand though, that other people might see this differently, just my opinion

edit: and still would never understand why would any parent bring their kids into something like this, necessary or not

I don't like kids in my video games. So if they must be in there then I hope it's only as background and nothing more.

There is also the limitation of hardware as well, additional models and animations would have to be loaded into system memory at those locations and they might want to have other things present in the game for those areas.  Right now the limits is for a lot of developers is "will it run on the XBox One".

From what I understand, most of the populations of the four arks are still in cryo until their Golden World is settled. So that's where I would think most(all?) of the children brought over would be.