Empty worlds?

The problem wasn't the tech, it was money and time. Mass Effects production was a mess (they rehauled the entire combat system a couple of months before launch) and very inefficient. The devs made a presentation on their refined production cycle for ME2 during a GDC (not sure which). (ME2 didn't feature vehicle exploration due to money/time constraints).

I'm also not opposed to ME1 style vehicle exploration but in good. Because even then they did some (very few) nice things. The nomad certainly looks like it handles better than the Mako ever did.

Also I think this is a thing where they can't make everyone happy. Because you have people complaining either way: "too big", "not enough interesting stuff to do" on the one side and "unrealistically dense", "immersion breaking", etc. on the other. I personally think having relatively large patches of nice to look at, but empty space, you have to traverse is better than having that same area littered with stupid collectibles nobody cares about (Ubisoft style).  

NaCl?

yup

Alright here's a video of an MMO who make fucking gorgeous environments.


As you can see deserts tend to be vast and empty but that doesn't mean they're bad.  The funny thing is that desert is still better than the entire planet Hoth from SWTOR. From what I've seen of Eos they nailed it.

Ok so they go to a distant galaxy with the goal of not triggering the locals. They pick their golden worlds like due to their LACK of locals. My guess, it is highly logical that they would be inhabited and would be kind of barren aside from nature. 

However, it would be cool if some of the planets we visited had civilization of some sort, some kind of advanced civilization or cultures.

But yeah, prerequisite would seem to be empty worlds else you might piss of them locals. Rule number 1. Don't piss off locals when possible.

Yawn at least dutch is mildly amusing