Where are all overweight people in Andromeda?

Your info about "a little bit overweight=lots of health issue" might be a little bit out of date bud. Go and read of latest studies showing completely opposite results and that fat can actually be beneficial for longevity and better health long term. Google is your friend. Great example of superstitions about fat though...
Also as it was mentioned previously multiple times - if overweight people were deemed unhealthy, then how the hell did transgenders made it into the Initiative? Apart from their mental health concerns, those people need a lifetime supply of hormones that they can-not naturally produce at the very least, not to mention other health issues related to gender change. So sorry, but that's just illogical to say that a mildly overweight person is unfit for journey, while some post-op trans is.

In the end you admit yourself that trans and gays are very poor candidates for mission like this, so they were included for the sake of inclusion. So that begs the question - how exactly are they better so that they get a free ride for the sake of inclusion, while BW couldn't be bothered including at least a single overweight character in game???  And don't say me about modeling, animation, and budget - BW games from 10 years ago on a much lower budged had fat people while also managing to virtually do everything better quality-wise, especially for its own time, than Andromeda does. It is nonsensical to assume that BW was unable to put a fat guy behind a counter somewhere, with minimal animations and model work, if they wanted to show some inclusion to overweight people. But they didn't simply because they don't care and just show a finger to overweight players, instead they chose to ponder to other demographics to an extent of writing formal apologies for some minor dialogue. Seriously, nowadays BW makes me sick.

Unless BW show some sense and make a formal apology to overweight people for not being in the game, and then add some in patch, they can consider yet another paying customer to be lost to them. Because if you step on a forced inclusion and representation path as one of major agendas of your porduct - then you need to make sure that all representation and inclusion is equal. Otherwise it is just bigotry in a form of double standards, and I as well as many others are not going to support it.


P.S: as for my height to weight ratio - you can throw you BMI index tablets into trash where they belong, considering how they not include bone and muscle mass % of a total weight into the equation.

Obese people probably didn't pass the health requirements for the Andromeda initiative. It makes sense to take only the best of the best for such massive and expensive undertaking.

Ask yourself, would you accept obese, chronically ill or mentally impaired people for such mission or would you stick to healthy, fit and mentally sound people? There is absolutely no reason NOT to do the latter.

Probably because unfit fat people wouldn't survive for long out in the Andromeda.

Important 600+ year trip to colonize a new Galaxy.

Lets send overweight people who are out of shape....yeah not going to happen. They don't even do that today in Nasa.

It is to Bioware!

Which is why I said they were only included for the sake of inclusion. Not because it was logical. 

It doesn't seem logical to me to bring overweight people with elevated risks, on a journey like this. Nor does it seem logical to bring trans people. 

They included one in the game for the sake of inclusion. They didn't include the other. 

They wanted fit, healthy people there. Two trans people, can still be generally healthy people. 

Overweight / Obese? Not so much. 

Logic this and making sense that, is all kinda out the window in a setting with Space Magic, inconceivable FTL travel, and English speaking aliens from another galaxy.

Clearly you have little understanding in the subject of the matter you talk about, otherwise you would not have said that. Being a transgender is not simply announcing to a world that you are of opposite sex now and cutting off or slapping on a penis. It is a complex procedure that requires lifetime of sustaining and comes with a lot of health risks, as well as potential and actual health issues. So unless we talk about extreme obesity, mildly overweight people make actually healthier candidates than transgenders.

Now, the topic is not about whether transgenders or overweight people possibly could or could not go to Andromeda. We talk about representation and inclusion of certain groups of people over the others, even though there is no problem including both, not to mention going for great lengths to pander to one group while completely ignoring the other. This is nothing but bigotry of double standards.

Dude, read what happens with transgender when they suddenly stop getting their hormone therapy, because what you say now is nothing but complete bs. And hormones are not the only issue. The way you put it with constantly listing numerous health issues, some of which are not directly tied to overweight while saying that transgenders need "only need mild hormone therapy" and "not going to become much of a problem" clearly showing how biased and/or unaware of the subject of discussion you are. Sorry, but I wish no longer to waste my time on arguing with a complete and utter bs like that. Go educate yourself on transgender and health issues and risks they face, before writing complete nonsense here.

Pretty much.  And just to make it clear, since far too many people are starting to actually take this thread seriously, I don't care about ME having overweight people in it.  The obvious answer is it would be a time/money issue for the devs creating additional body types. 

It was just an opportunity to point out the ridiculousness of BW trying to make all the female faces ugly but then putting them on super hot fitness model bodies.