Post by VictusKeld on Apr 13, 2017 18:26:25 GMT
I feel like the importance of the AI was, and likely will continue to be, vastly oversold in the Heleus Cluster. I mean apparently Milky Way tech isn't much (if any) more advanced than the Angaran's or Kett's, most of the ships they brought weren't armed for warfare, Remnant tech wasn't used for defense till the end of the game, and the population housed on the arks is pathetically small. And that's before all the casualties, Ryder or APEX caused (in the case of the Outlaws) or otherwise. I mean 20,000 humans on Hyperion...and somehow the Milky Way visitors matter to the Angara? We'll let them join our club? That's cute. Sure, the events with the Remnant at the end of the game help explain why the new government will be extremely Milky Way biased as far as representation for member populations go. (Which for plot reasons it would have made much more sense to have that all happen much earlier, no outposts were even remotely safe beforehand, nor was the Nexus...which why wasn't that destroyed again by the way? Also, why/how do the Ryders exclusively "interface" with Remnant tech even without SAM? If the Angara learn how, humanity would be irrelevant to them.)
Just to keep it simple I'll limit these calculations to rough approximations and only the human ark. There were roughly 20,000 humans on Hyperion. For this scenario, reproduction will occur with a traditional family structure, though in reality only the number of women really matters. Take the conditions that follow as assumptions. All 20k survived, 10k are men, 10k are women, all are fertile and willing to have children, all 10k women (and subsequent generations of women) find a male reproductive partner, and a woman remains fertile until the age of 50 (human lifespan is 150 after all). Given these premises if every woman has 20 children (not an "unreasonable" amount, as far as calculations go at least lol) then the population will increase by a factor of 10 every 50 years. It would take 150 years to reach a population of 10 million, for comparison the population of New York City is 8.4 million.
You could maybe argue that the Angara are in a rough spot population wise but it would be hard to imagine they're close to as low as all the Milky Way races put together, but the Kett? What about all the other unmet civilizations?
Am I alone in thinking that the present state and definitely the future of ME in Andromeda is going to be extremely Milky Way biased? Having humanity play an aggrandized role obscenely out of proportion? And far too quickly? I couldn't get over that the entire time I played the single player. What really bothers me is that it would have been relatively easy to write nearly the exact same story around these issues as well.
Just to keep it simple I'll limit these calculations to rough approximations and only the human ark. There were roughly 20,000 humans on Hyperion. For this scenario, reproduction will occur with a traditional family structure, though in reality only the number of women really matters. Take the conditions that follow as assumptions. All 20k survived, 10k are men, 10k are women, all are fertile and willing to have children, all 10k women (and subsequent generations of women) find a male reproductive partner, and a woman remains fertile until the age of 50 (human lifespan is 150 after all). Given these premises if every woman has 20 children (not an "unreasonable" amount, as far as calculations go at least lol) then the population will increase by a factor of 10 every 50 years. It would take 150 years to reach a population of 10 million, for comparison the population of New York City is 8.4 million.
You could maybe argue that the Angara are in a rough spot population wise but it would be hard to imagine they're close to as low as all the Milky Way races put together, but the Kett? What about all the other unmet civilizations?
Am I alone in thinking that the present state and definitely the future of ME in Andromeda is going to be extremely Milky Way biased? Having humanity play an aggrandized role obscenely out of proportion? And far too quickly? I couldn't get over that the entire time I played the single player. What really bothers me is that it would have been relatively easy to write nearly the exact same story around these issues as well.
