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[major_threat]

You guys think it will have penalties in ME3? I just see it as free paragon/ renegade points .

[TruYuri]

I play as Pure Paragon always and this is the one thing I will never do. Hearing the annoying ads all over the wards is not worth saving a couple credits.

[Mars Nova]

All the shopkeepers are going to make you choose which one is your real favorite. You'll get to keep your discount at that one store, but won't be able to shop at the others ever again.

[Skyblade012]

Every store except one. Citadel Souveneirs gave me the government discount because I chose reinstatement as a Spectre.



I'd probably choose Saronis Applications if I had to choose one, but Rodham's Expeditions would be second.



Although, if we do get stuck that way, I'd feel kind of cheated, since I just chose to give them an endorsement, and nothing in the game let me pick what I said. They should have had a separate endorsement for each shop.

[Moiaussi]

Mars Nova wrote...

All the shopkeepers are going to make you choose which one is your real favorite. You'll get to keep your discount at that one store, but won't be able to shop at the others ever again.

This.

And/or a major reputation hit of some kind. Much harder to be taken seriously as a field agent when you are shilling for various corporations.

[Pacifien]

There was much experimentation to discover just what I had to do to avoid endorsing every store in the Citadel. Some of the renegade responses really aren't that bad. At Sirta, you basically imply that a discount might make some sales in such a rundown area. At Saronis, you get the great "2183?! Why don't they just give a sliderule and ask you to eyeball it?" If you get your Spectre status back, you get an employee discount at the gift shop. Uh, I don't know what the responses are at Rodam because I let the Council die so the shopkeeper isn't too happy with me to start with. In that situation, the paragon route is good enough.

[AresXX7]

Pacifien wrote...

There was much experimentation to discover just what I had to do to avoid endorsing every store in the Citadel. Some of the renegade responses really aren't that bad. At Sirta, you basically imply that a discount might make some sales in such a rundown area. At Saronis, you get the great "2183?! Why don't they just give a sliderule and ask you to eyeball it?" If you get your Spectre status back, you get an employee discount at the gift shop. Uh, I don't know what the responses are at Rodam because I let the Council die so the shopkeeper isn't too happy with me to start with. In that situation, the paragon route is good enough.

If you choose the paragon one, with them alive, he'll give a remark about being willing to name his firstborn after Shep, along with accepting the endorsement. The renegade version is about aquiring a sponsor, while hunting "bad guys" in the Terminus Systems, and he'll mention something about bringing back a Geth's head, for him to use as a lamp.

[Admiral Awsome]

Pacifien wrote...

There was much experimentation to discover just what I had to do to avoid endorsing every store in the Citadel. Some of the renegade responses really aren't that bad. At Sirta, you basically imply that a discount might make some sales in such a rundown area. At Saronis, you get the great "2183?! Why don't they just give a sliderule and ask you to eyeball it?" If you get your Spectre status back, you get an employee discount at the gift shop. Uh, I don't know what the responses are at Rodam because I let the Council die so the shopkeeper isn't too happy with me to start with. In that situation, the paragon route is good enough.

You tell him about the game you hunt (merceanaries, geth, etc.) and then he tells you that he respects anyone who hunts game like.

[upsettingshorts]

Pacifien wrote...

There was much experimentation to discover just what I had to do to avoid endorsing every store in the Citadel. Some of the renegade responses really aren't that bad. At Sirta, you basically imply that a discount might make some sales in such a rundown area. At Saronis, you get the great "2183?! Why don't they just give a sliderule and ask you to eyeball it?" If you get your Spectre status back, you get an employee discount at the gift shop. Uh, I don't know what the responses are at Rodam because I let the Council die so the shopkeeper isn't too happy with me to start with. In that situation, the paragon route is good enough.

Great post, I hadn't done the Citadel yet on my "final" canon ManShep playthrough, and this will guide my way!

[didymos1120]

Pacifien wrote...

There was much experimentation to discover just what I had to do to avoid endorsing every store in the Citadel. [snip stuff that's been thrice-quoted already]

Yeah, I always go to the Council/Anderson first so I can get the employee discount.  I go renegade with Sirta and Rodam.  I give the one and only endorsement to Saronis because you walk in and that guy is like "OMG, Shep.  You rule!", even if you let the council die. I just gotta reward that level of enthusiasm.  I've never saved after deploying the "class warfare" option.  That's just something to be amused by before a reset. 

Modifié par didymos1120, 03 septembre 2010 - 10:00 .

[OBakaSama]

Don't the stores sell different merchandise? If they do, then the endorsement could still stand in some form.



The Renegade options for most of them aren't too bad actually. Except for the accusation of classism at the gift shop.

[BurningArmor]

Playing the paragon side, I tend to endorse just the Sirta Foundation. The store raises credits for their medical research, and they are the ones that make the medigel if I recall. Add to that the press is saying Sirta is going belly up financially in less than a year, I figure it might be a plus in ME3 for Sirta to pull out of it's problems. That's speculation on my part though for now.

[JulianP]

Pacifien wrote...

 If you get your Spectre status back, you get an employee discount at the gift shop. Uh, I don't know what the responses are at Rodam because I let the Council die so the shopkeeper isn't too happy with me to start with. In that situation, the paragon route is good enough.

Are his responses different depending on your Council choice?  What does he say to you? 

I limit myself to endorsing Saronis and Rodam.  Saronis because Marab is such a fan and so helpful and funny whether you Charm or Indimidate him (slide rule, haha), and Rodam because Etarn (at least in my saved-the-council games) actually ducks behind his counter during his spiel and is far from being upset that we "put down" his species' most eminent representative in the Spectres.  They're both my "favorite" shops on the Citadel!

[didymos1120]

JulianP wrote...
Are his responses different depending on your Council choice?

 

No.  Kill the council and he's just generally annoyed with humans.

What does he say to you?

Basically, that humans are opportunistic cowards who deliberately let the Council die.  He calls humans 'scavengers' and 'kinslayers', too.   Also, when you ask him about the weapons restrictions, he'll say humans can make whatever laws they like, because there will always be loopholes for guys like him to find.

[Lucien_Diva]

I wondered this at first... it didn't seem like a paragon action to basically blag a discount by being economical with the truth... I'd be interested if it did come back to bite me later... though I guess it is the most even handed solution...



Having said that, though, are any of the shops actually in direct competition with one another - I seem to remember that they all held monopolies on their particular product area... couldn't Shepard have just said '...and this is my favourite [INSERT ITEM RANGE] shop on the Citadel'?

[JulianP]

Hmm, looks like maybe this is the mean Etarn I didn't see in my game:

[Skyblade012]

BurningArmor wrote...

Playing the paragon side, I tend to endorse just the Sirta Foundation. The store raises credits for their medical research, and they are the ones that make the medigel if I recall. Add to that the press is saying Sirta is going belly up financially in less than a year, I figure it might be a plus in ME3 for Sirta to pull out of it's problems. That's speculation on my part though for now.

The Saronis Applications guy is not only enthusiastic, he's knowledgable and personable.  He's the ultimate shop employee, and I can't help but like him the most.

Rodham is my second choice, because of the whole safari-trip-experience dialogue, but Saronis just takes the cake.

Honestly, though, if you get penalized, it will be ridiculous.  On your first playthrough, assuming you haven't been spoiled by the internet, you have no way of knowing you'll be giving the same endorsement to all the stores until you have already done it.  The option just says "give an endorsement".  It was lazy writing on BioWare's part, it would have been fairly easy and very awesome to make separate endorsements for each store.  I shouldn't get penalized for the fact that they wrote only a single endorsement that is only really valid if you only use it once.

[didymos1120]

JulianP wrote...

Hmm, looks like maybe this is the mean Etarn I didn't see in my game:

Yep.  That's how he behaves if the Council died.  Too bad they left out the persuasions.  He gets really cranky if you paragon him, because you basically guilt-trip him into a discount:  "I saved the Citadel, so blah, blah discount".  He actually gets a little friendlier if you go renegade.

[Skyblade012]

Seriously, why didn't we get separate endorsements for each store? Touting the quality of the merchandise, little commercials that make it seem like some effort was put into it?

[didymos1120]

Skyblade012 wrote...

Seriously, why didn't we get separate endorsements for each store? Touting the quality of the merchandise, little commercials that make it seem like some effort was put into it?

Shep: "Hi, I'm Commander Shepard.  You may know me from saving your scaly asses two years ago, being generally awesome, and recently returning from the dead.  Well, I couldn't have done any of it without my trusty [insert favorite weapon here]." 

*camera pulls back to reveal Shep in cover. Suddenly, Shep pops out, draws a bead on a geth, blows it to scrap, then turns to face the camera again*

Shep: "And that's why one of my first stops after returning to the land of the living was Rodam Expeditions."

Announcer: Rodam Expeditions.  Visit us on Zakera Ward Today!

[AresXX7]

didymos1120 wrote...

Skyblade012 wrote...

Seriously, why didn't we get separate endorsements for each store? Touting the quality of the merchandise, little commercials that make it seem like some effort was put into it?

Shep: "Hi, I'm Commander Shepard.  You may know me from saving your scaly asses two years ago, being generally awesome, and recently returning from the dead.  Well, I couldn't have done any of it without my trusty [insert favorite weapon here]." 

*camera pulls back to reveal Shep in cover. Suddenly, Shep pops out, draws a bead on a geth, blows it to scrap, then turns to face the camera again*

Shep: "And that's why one of my first stops after returning to the land of the living was Rodam Expeditions."

Announcer: Rodam Expeditions.  Visit us on Zakera Ward Today!

LMAO   

[Solaris Paradox]

Interesting question. My last thought upon departing the Citadel for the first time was "My God, Commander Shepard has a lot of favorite stores on the Citadel..."

[Stormy-B]

No, since they are all different stores and in Zakera ward. Which is one of five wards. However the storeowners might send you irritated mails about how Zakera got overcrowded because everyone wants to shop in Shepards favourite stores

[Kneecap]

In M3 you'll be stalked by thousands of fans because of these endorsments...