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

Pathfinders should also be engineers, botanists, sculptors, writers, physicists, chemists, painters, architects, musicians, writers, mathematicians, paleontologists, astronomers, archaeologists, doctors, geologists, philosophers, alchemists and dancers.

So yes!

Personally, no. I've only played two games that have done something like this. One was Skyrim's "Hearthfire" which was straightforward enough, but still tedious to find the materials; and Fallout 4, which was so complex and demanding, it really distracted from the main story. I don't really want something like that, even if it's only optional.

If it was really basic stuff like spending credits on preset layouts and designs, then sure, why not. Just so long as it won't distract me from the plot for too long. But having to spend hours collecting resources and then customize it to be just the way you want it isn't how I want to spend my time in Andromeda. Butting alien heads, talking to people and exploring new planets is what I'd rather the game be about.

I would love this, but only if it plays a role in the story! I'd love it if providing your people (humans from your Ark, but also Asari, Salarians etc. etc.) played a larger role, because after all:

That's your fucking job as Pathfinder! You go out find resources, determine threats, set up outposts (to mine resources or plant crops etc.), find additional worlds, make contact with other aliens (or fight them if need be), keep your people together (I hope you can put those criminals from that trailer down - I have no use for people who divide the few humans in the new galaxy, so if possible I will give them the choice: Return to the Nexus/Ark and work with the rest or be stamped out (don't have the resources to keep them locked up!) - especially since they most likely STOLE resources to be able to set out on their own (thieves get killed as long as you don't have civilization re-established! Unless they have a very very very good reason for stealing (feeding their family/themselves or soemthing)))

I never bothered with settlements in Fallout 4 because they played no part in the story (so they were only pointless tedium - or if you want to say it that way: A waste of time! I don't even like Minecraft because IMHO it's a total waste of my time!) and were not really good for much (except spending time doing something I didn't find rewarding - especially with that CLUNKY interface...how that passed quality control is really beyond me, I'd have flagged that and told the makers that it's a clunky fucked up piece of garbage!)

Make it a story element (this is something I have missed in DA:I, too - why does my fucking fortress, even with some repairs still have a hole in the wall next to my command-center (the map-room)? Must be fucking FREEZING, so let me fix that god damned! (Not to mention that only very few of the upgrades for that place really did anything...hell, I would have wanted a gardener who takes care of my plants for me (if they are fully mature they are harvested and new ones (the same as before - or others if you plan some sort of rotation, which should IMHO have been possible) should have been planted!)) and I will spend a lot of time with it (note: Not like war-assets or influence like in DA:I where you could not progress in the story without influence ), helping people out, ordering a cantina built, planing out defenses etc. etc.

greetings LAX

yes, seems like a nice idea, to kep exploring, be on adventures with your buddies, they must be there of course, to be the helius cluster alone is sad

I wonder if the colonists would be pleased if their beds, power and crops were all piled into one spot. The settlers in FO4 didn't mind.

I think it will be more one the line of Assassins Creed where the design and layout is all preset.  You just make the decisions on who to send and what to upgrade.

If I can't name my city "Cerberus did nothing wrong" , then I am going to be sorely disappointed.

Didn't BW preview something like this for DAI? You capture a castle and then make get to make a few cosmetic changes and determine what the castle is used for, spying, coin or the army. I know it was cut from the final DAI game, but something like that would be great for MEA. I too enjoyed the settlement building in FO4, but I just can't see that being implemented well into a BW game. Let them stick to what they are good at. I would love to see someone try and tackle a modern day version of Crossroads Keep some day.

Question: how many tin cans would I need to gather to build a defense turret?

Title says confirmed, so this is actually going to be in the game? I voted no in any case, but I don't think it's a garbage idea. Some games have done it well. I just don't think it's in BioWare's wheelhouse. They should just focus on the primary reasons people buy their games.