D.Sharrah wrote...
EpyonX3 wrote...
Bill Casey wrote...
EpyonX3 wrote...
What's wrong about what I said? Even as an Admiral they went to war with the geth using civilians. And when Shepard allowed the code to be uploaded, they ignored Tali's order to stand down and Shepard had to intervene. So why would the reapers bother indoctrinating Tali?
I'm pretty sure you need Tali and Koris saying "Shepard speaks with my authority", or you can't make peace...
That's not my point at all this is the problem. It got lost a few pages ago.
The original conversation was about what factors about your squadmates would lead them to be indoctrinated. Tali being an admiral was one but I disagreed since, even though she's an admiral in one possible playthrough, it doesn't mean she'll be an automatic target since she isn't a very influencial figure.
The Quarians still go to war for Rannoch, they still don't listen to her when she orders the fleets to break off and it still took Shepard to actually make peace by doing the server mission with Legion and convincing the Quarians to stop firing.
She can also die in ME 2...that doesn't mean that she does not have influence. Think of it this way...if you were going to start ranking ME characters on a scale to determinw who is likely to get indoctrinated and who is not...then Tali is going to rate higher than most (as is most of Shep's crew).
Besides Tali being a great engineer, I don't see how she'd be of any value to the reapers. Reapers are more concerned about Genetics and Political/Military status. Tali has neither, unless she's an admiral. But even as an admiral, I don't think she's an influencial one.
I'd rank Shepard's crew as the following:
1) Shepard - Lazarus Project
2) Miranda - Genetically Perfect
3) Anderson - Influencial Military Figure
3) VS - Possible Love interest
4) EDI - Controls the Ship and is potentially hackable
5) Legion - Hackable and can convince the other half of geth to join reapers
6) Garrus - Awesome at Calibrations - can calibrate reaper beams
7) Tali - Engineering skills
8) James - No real reason unless he becomes close to Shepard
9) Jack - Biotic powers
10) Javik - Last prothean, no need for it since they're already harvested but can be done for psycological reasons