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

Well I loved Fallout 4 settlement building and would fall over with delight if they put it in MEA. I get that many people wouldn't like it though and I'm fine with that.

Given BioWare's statements on Witcher 3 and given a few other things said in this thread I am enclined to believe/ slightly hoping, it will end up being more like Witcher 3. 

I'm OK if it's simple. Unlock a prebuilt settlement/colony. Then through resources or missions it will grow and get better. I always like being able to upgrade and make bases expand, but not actually doing any of the building/designing it stuff.

Just hope that the time they spent on this didn't subtract from better mission quality.

I guess they reused the Keep system?

Not at all, but I just can't wait to be the guy who does literally everything for my organization again. We're supposed to discover new locations, be the lead diplomatic peacekeeper, top-secret agent for combat and capture outposts? This is what I think multiplayer or some "progress overall" thing should build towards instead. The more "total EMS" kind of score you have the more settlements with humans from Hyperion you'll see across the world. This is how InFamous did its morality system too. If you were a coldblooded badass antihero the city would look like it had a meteor strike from all your havoc (as implied) and if you were the selfless good guy hero the city would be clean and citizens would cheer you on like they do for Spiderman as you zap across the telephone wires.

Being the top-influential figure for the organization you work for I would much rather see that than to be the tool who has to do everything because "player1 is so awesome and needs such ageny and empowerment"

Oh yeah, that's right now that you mention it. They did say that. I have my hopes that it means we truly aren't, because I could still see BioWare celebrating the player-character like it's nobody's business as always.

The political leaders of AI and Hyperion are someone else, as they said. While important, the Pathfinder is just the leader of the colonization team, basically. This time they created the role for so it makes sense we do those kind of quests.

Most of the time I'm super hyped and optmistic but, truly, there are other times that I'm afraid that MEA is going to be everything I don't want a BW game to be I hope all of these things are better than they sound, or at least that we can just skip it all, and that main story, squadmates and combat are still worthy

Facking right?  I eventually ignored the defense prompts in FO4 mainly because I was like, "Defend yourselves, I building here."

I hope we have get unlimited defense encounters but we can end the prompts entirely once we've completely upgraded the colony's defenses. The community attacks also aren't timed like FO4, so you don't have to drop everything to go engage combat.  If you remember the Templar dens from Assassins Creed Revelations, your Assassin bases could get attacked and taken over until you fully upgraded that base.  After that, it's peaceful forever.  

If you read through everything, I don't think it will be anything like Fallout 4's crafting.  In fact there's no way it will be because they most likely want the settlements to act as small hubs.  They don't want most people's experiences to be where they have barely anything built with some of the built making zero sense at all.  Fallout made sense because everything was mostly destroyed already.  Here, not so much.  They'll need everything to be systemic and they don't want a bunch of random walls floating in the air.  


Again.......I honestly think you will pick the places (most likely preset options) for the settlement and it will get built automatically as you pour funds and resources to it. I believe you will just be able to select certain upgrades like witcher 3 corvo bianco so that it stays within the realms of Mass Effects system of choice.  

witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Corvo_Bianco