Will your Ryder use N7 armor?

Wearing N7 armor because your dad had one feels like a weird cosplay.
I'd rather wear ARKCON insignia, even though it gives me uncomfortable Cerberus vibes.

Need third option to put the N7 armor on a pedestal in quarters.

Of course - and it's lore friendly, too (don't know how people get that this isn't lore friendly? I mean using the N7-Tag for ourselves? That would be wrong, but even a cheap ass merc from the Terminus-Systems would fucking use N7 (or Turian/Asari/Salarian commando) armor if they could get their grubby paws on it and it's not like a lot of cool stuff doesn't end up on the black market! Look around today, you can buy military weapons, armor, night-vision goggles etc. etc. on the black market if you have the cash, so why not in the distant future? Humanity hasn't changed that much and it's not like the Turians, Asari and Salarians don't have criminals...remember Aria? (hell, it could even be official, we know that our dad is (or used to be?) N7, so the schematics could be there by his request or maybe some Salarian (Ex-STG maybe?) got his/her hands on it?)

Hell, mercs would probably be able to afford it easily (at least if they are good, like say Zaed from ME2) because they have a lot of income to spend and survival is one thing any good merc will value (so they'll get the best armor they can afford and switch that out for better gear ASAP if they have more money available!) and commando stuff is probably among the best things out there (the only other stuff as good might be custom gear tailored to the specific person (!) and SPECTRE stuff)

So yeah, I will use it if it's there and if it's any good (maybe N7 armor isn't the best, who knows maybe we can upgrade or craft some armor with Remnant/Kett/Angaran technology, who knows?) and I will not be harming the lore in any way (hell, I'd wear my dad's armor if that survives him (I believe that he will die or at least get incapacitated...hell, maybe he gets taken by the Kett?) and if it's better than what we have at the start!)...black market is probably a thing with all those rebells/criminals around in Andromeda (and we'll need good gear to crush those under our heel )

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ps: I'd love to remove (or paint over) the N7-Logo (at least until I feel that my Ryder has earned that rank (hell, maybe we'll have some N7-Characters along who could maybe make you an honorary N7 (hell, I'd love it if one of the things we could do when establishing our forces is instituting training courses - I'd love a mix of Asari (especially for biotics!), Turian, Salarian (STG) and Human N7 training to create a new breed of soldier (we don't have that many people so good training counts for a lot in such a situation!)...hell, I'd go for genetic upgrades etc. too in our situation (making a few SPARTANS sounds like a great idea when you are fighting overwhelming numbers with few people and resources!))

No, but not because of lore reasons but because it's boring looking. I'm hoping for blood dragon armor to show up.

I wont be, but my Shepard's never used it either (except the initial forced to use it intro sections). Has less to do with 'lore'. I mean the suits don't have anti-N7 detection systems that repel all non-N7 people from wearing them. Seriously, lore has jack shit to do with it.

Conrad Verner used one (fake, but still).

I don't get people definition of "earning it". I guess that goes with tradition.
But considering the fact that any and all N7s in the way would get rekt fighting us, it should be a honor for the ICT to have Ryder wearing it.

But I agree that there are more interesting armors around.

I mean, there are very specific criteria someone has to meet to be N7. I don't really see how Ryder could be N7 without N7 training. Unless someone who was an N7 gifted it to him/her, but even then, it's still not "real" without those 20 hours a day of intense training, alien linguistics training, medical training, etc.. 

It would be kinda like cosplay, I guess. That's great if your Ryder likes dressing up, but it seems inappropriate to be cosplaying during life or death combat situations. 

I dunno, the whole thing just seems weird to me. The armor is clearly only in the game for fanservice.

I still don't think I think Ryder can amount to an N6. He might be able to survive in an exceptional fashion, but that's the only criteria he meets, and you can't become an N7 without completing 1-6. I mean, there's more to the program than just combat. A lot more. Someone could be an exceptional fighter and have been through countless battles, but if they don't have all this: 



then they are not qualified to do 90% of the things that an N7 has to do. Even if Ryder saves the galaxy, he/she is still lacking all of these skills.

So I don't think he/she can earn it, conventionally or otherwise. Maybe Ryder could kick Shepard's ass in a fight, I don't know, but Ryder certainly isn't an N7. He could become a general without ever being N7. I don't think anyone that went through those specific criteria should be honored that some kid is sporting their logo when he/she is incapable of doing most of the things that they had to learn to do to earn that. 

In any case, he was sucked out into space from the cargo bay.

To meet the Crystalline Entity in Hell, possibly.

EDIT: No, wait, he survived that didn't he? He got deactivated after his little adventure with the rogue Borg, though.

We do have the jetpack, but that still leaves out everything else, including alien linguistics and biology, which are probably very complex things to learn, and we don't have any word on Ryder knowing anything about either subject. 



Ryder could probably give an N7 a run for their money. In combat. I don't buy that he/she is automatically qualified in every other respect, though. BioWare has repeatedly said that Ryder is meant to be less experienced than Shepard when starting out. The emphasis they put on this fact would indicate that he/she doesn't really know much of anything outside of grunt work.

In fact,

Of course, none of this is a bad thing. I'm not one of those people that desperately needs Shepard or someone like Shepard to be the main character. I think the whole appeal of Ryder is that he/she is an inexperienced kid. I just don't think they're N7, or can or should be N7. It's better that they aren't the best at everything. It makes for a more interesting character, in theory. 

That golden Nomad is so tacky. 

Well, at the very beginning of ME1, Shepard is probably a bit closer to the average N7 than he is later on. Being a war hero is probably what brought him from a 6 to a 7, actually, though I'm not 100% sure of that. You're right, though, Shepard is exceptional, even by N7 standards. And yeah, the Pathfinder is all of those things, but

Well, of course, yeah. I tend to take gameplay stuff with a grain of salt, though, since the player will always be more competent than the characters themselves. That's, as you said, just how playable characters work. I don't think Ryder is actually as capable as we make them look, story-wise, hence me not thinking Ryder deserves an N7 armor set.