Confirmed!!: Establishing Your Own Colonies/Settlements (Update: possibly defending colonies)

Anyone who votes the second option will be murdered by kittens at night. Silently.

EDIT: You asked for it. 

I don't think the crafting from FO4 could work in this situation.  Too many mechanics.  I'd rather just have an upgrade system for the colony with the focus more on resource gathering and colony story missions.  Basically everyone's colony would look similar in the end after the upgrades, but you can decide where to put your credits/money and resources towards first.  Maybe give two or three variations on how to upgrade or add a certain building/layout.  

Check out the link to Corvo Bianco, the vinyard you get in Witcher 3, and you may get a better idea.

witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Corvo_Bianco

Actually Corvo Bianco would be the perfect idea for this.  I just never considered the Vineyard to be like the FO 4 system so I dismissed it.  But, that would be really...cool.  Especially with the resource gathering aspects of MEA.  You can use your colonies to gather resources for you and then dump those resources into further upgrades.  Hmmm, also sort of 'Kett containment' might be a really interesting idea.  Sor of civilizing the wild lands.  That last part coule be iffy but if you have Kett/ some other form of bandits upgrading your outposts could actively make it so the situation becomes more stable and you run into more bad guys in your travels.  And more XP.  

Yeah, something like the Blood and Wine vineyard, or, a closer example, a more expanded version of Shepard's apartment in ME3: Citadel would be keen, but Fallout 4 style seems like a bad idea.

Agreed, this would most likely be the best course of action for colony building in a mass effect game.

Fallout 4 was a great option. For Fallout 4. I think that sort of thing is great in principle but if executed poorly can leave a bitter taste in ones mouth/playing experience.

Inquisition did this semi well, but I always felt like there was more that could have been done. I guess that a giant hole in the sky trumps whether to have purple or green drapes though. I suppose if we're going to be able to upgrade stuff I'd rather have a mini quest to get the supplies or whatever rather than the usual go and get 40 sace wood and make me a coffee table. I think we can all agree that turning this into the sims is a colossally bad idea.

Depends on how it wporks really as with other crafting I think it needs t obe kept simple but only time will tell really.

Bring me the kittens, and I shall triumph!!!


On topic: I voted no, but that is more because I don't want it that big. I am happy with the cabin in Tempest and we will probably have the option to customise it a bit (things we find and maybe personal stuff). I would like to have something like the Citadel DLC, where we have a apartment on the Nexus that we can decorate with different options.

When it comes to the colonies and settlements I'm more than happy to leave that to the people in charge of that. I'm in charge of finding a place for them to place it (and save everybody while I'm at it  ) and they are in charge to make it happen.

I can't cope with detailed settlement building in games that want me to follow a story. I get distracted and next thing I'm engaged in major urban redevelopment and to hell with the plot. Yes, Fallout 4, I do mean you.

I can behave responsibly when asked to collect resources to enable me to pick from a short, predetermined list of options which the game then toddles off and sets up, but no more than that.

I personally wouldn't mind a more abstract version of a colony upgrading mechanic, rather than playing doll house Fallout 4 style.

I've recently been engrossed in the Long War 2 mod for XCOM 2, and what that modification does is add an element of base management without bogging down the gameplay in order to decide what color the walls of your FOB should look like. In essence, you do missions like disrupting enemy supply lines, and rescuing/recruiting various NPCs you can staff at you havens. This, in turn, builds up a defense against further enemy attacks in that particular region, but you have to manage how hard you go after your opponent, as the harder you push, the more the enemy will divert manpower and resources into a given region from adjacent territories making it harder to operate, and could lead to reprisal attacks on your assets.

A system not unlike that would be a nice addition to ME:Andromeda I feel. You have Ryder and Co. going around completing side missions and getting the help of NPCs to run various settlements in the cluster, and the more you sure up your defenses, the less likely someone like the Khett will attack you, or the more likely your colony will be able to hold off such an attack on their own. It would be a really cool feature (though highly unlikely to occur) that the more offensive based activities you personally took part in, both in SP and MP, would directly translate into how often your outposts would fall under attack, and how many enemies you would have to face in a given area.

Maybe I've been playing too much XCOM 2, but if it could be done well, I think that such a gameplay mechanic would be fun, and offer varied replayablity, without the grind of titles like DA:I.

I really enjoyed settlements in Fallout, but I'm not sure how it could work in ME franchise.

Seems very similar to the Warden's Keep in DA:A, so BioWare is at least familiar with the concept of an upgradable "home base". Though, if we are looking for something like that in Andromeda, I would say the thing being upgraded would be the Tempest, rather than a static colony or outpost.