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

And when it happens, it'll be like Red Dead Redemption, Assassins Creed Unity, and ME 3 where people walk by and say "hey Ryder/hey Scott/hey Sara or how's it going Pathfinder."

It would be cool if they do what Fallout 4 did if you changed your first name.  I about lost it the first time Codsworth said, "Mr. Patrick"

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 

Corvo Bianco didn't really work for me in Witcher, I got it so late in the game, I've been there only once and never returned. And for now Bioware didin't really do side-content well.

Some people love doing this.  Some people hate it.  I personally love it when a game gives you a place to call home (besides the Tempest) with options to upgrade and/or customize.

There's the Assassin's Creed and/or Witcher 3: Blood and Wine style upgrades to an existing settlement where credits are used to purchase upgrades over time. There would be a series of preset options to buy.  There would be a series of preset options to buy.   Then there's the Fallout 4 crafting (wouldn't work IMO) which is pretty extreme and only appeals to certain people where you collect materials and can build anything from scratch.  Most likely way too intricate for ME: Andromeda.  There's also No Man's Sky Foundation DLC where it's not that intricate but still gives you the creative freedom/resource gathering.

Personally, I would like to see this as post game content dlc giving you motivation to keep scouring the various worlds.  Since the story is supposed to come full circle in terms of eliminating the threat with no sequels planned, it would be nice to have it focused on building your own permanent home to come back to after your pathfinder duties.   I would want it to be more like the Assassins Creed upgrades but require more than credits.  Certain upgrades require certain materials that you need to scavenge while exploring.  The upgrades can include:

-lounge/bar
-market/shops
-movie theater with a direct plugin to twitch (to watch ME:A sessions) or watch your own recorded videos
-Ryder's estate 
-an Armory with armor racks and gun displays
-Garage/mechanic for the Nomad (and Hopefully additional vehicles acquired through dlc)
-defense posts

Over time, you can recruit colonists allowing for additional side quest content and another reason to go out and explore.  These colonists will provide certain buffs for the colony.  They could even implement a government system where you have to make choices for the colony/ colonists like in DA: Inquisition.  


And of course it can be attacked given that you have opted for this in the menu.  This can provide unlimited replay-ability given the various choices you make, the scavenging for the materials, and defense combat   


Brain storm with me folks on what you would like implemented and how it can further enhance the experience!  Or explain why this doesn't appeal to you.

Edit: Confirmed by Play (UK) Magazine interview– You can create settlements. 'Find a suitable planet and on that planet a good spot and you can create your own little communities scattered through the systems.' There is a limit, because there is a limit of people on the Hyperion.

I respect that many people just want story, but why do the same thing as a last generation game?  Why not build upon that already solid foundation with new features to take the game from good to incredible?  I don't think you'll be disappointed though.  The good thing is that instead of the game being bogged down by constant one off story side missions that gave the old games unnecessary fluff using the same mechanics (just tacked on to make the game last longer), we'll have a crisp, well developed story with various optional content to engage.  The atmosphere of the well developed and rich worlds will make the players fell like a place they living in/ care about rather than following a story book with deviations for everything.  And I'd personally rather have places to come back to with never ending side missions so I can spend 100+ hours in one playthrough as opposed to 100+ hours in multiple play throughs.   

Most of my fallout 4 quests are dominated by me trying to find as many bits of oil, crystal and fibre optics as possible, and weighing up whether a telephone is more valuable to carry than a typewriter.
And then if I want to fast travel away and then back again to restock as I progress.


That is not what I want in a mass effect game. And as noted before, if Cora tells me about a colony being under attack every 5 minutes then it's the airlock for her.

The interview starts at 16 mins and goes on until 30 minutes.

New info:

“It’s actually a story of optimism and hope, it’s not the story of trying to fight for a home and do these things it’s actually a story of potential and of reason to go explore…”

MEA embraces that combat of ME2 and 3 but with some definite improvements. They wanted to bring back something they lose from ME1 which is some of those ways to choose to play in that combat system. So there’s more choices than ever.

Switching profiles has a story tie in as to how that happens. It’s your father actually, Alec Ryder, who helps you in the early part of the game. He shows you this thing he’s worked on to do that. It’s a nice little tie in to the evolution of the gameplay.

Tactical choices all through the game. Using your squadmates as well is still an important staple to the game. Giving them things to do and having them play a certain way. Whether you want them to be in the background just providing cover fire for you or whether you want them to take more of a front and centre approach charging out there and doing things.
There are casual and narrative difficulty settings.

Cover can be destroyed. There are more physics based powers: you can pick up people and throw them at other people. You can freeze people, you can shatter them. It’s the most dynamic combat system we’ve ever had in a Bioware game.

The infiltrator profile does give you the cloak. Aaryn’s personal favourite is to play a sniper. Hanging back and plugging people from a distance.

Aaryn is a fan of scanning in ME games. It was taken away in ME3 and now they’ve brought it back again.

There are dimensions to resource management. In addition to finding resources to upgrade weapons and armour, the pathfinder must choose how you colonize. You could choose to make a planet a Science planet or put down a military outpost and you get different benefits or consequences from each choice for the overall Andromeda Initiative.