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[General TSAR]

Report for who? There's likely no audience back home.

[SKAR]

Only if the reporter looks like a Mexican weather woman.
https://www.youtube....h?v=J1PTLUn6iXs

Yanet Garcia. As an LI I would love nothing more.

[Seboist]

Yanet Garcia. As an LI I would love nothing more.

That would be the most worthwhile LI Bioware could ever make, barring having Aracely Arambula as a LI of course.

[Wulfram]

Report for who? There's likely no audience back home.

It seems likely to me that the number of people on the arks is enough to sustain some sort of press. Even if it was just some part-time newsletter type thing.

[Fredward]

Hard hitting investigative journalist. Donuts on the third level mess are going missing and the TRUTH WILL OUT!

[PunchFaceReporter]

Do people even understand what it means to try and set up a colony in a separate galaxy? Not knowing if your own civilization survived the reapers and given everything we knew about teh reapers having every reason to believe they didn't? And based on the fact this is a cryo ship you know regardless of outcomes in the Milky way EVERYONE you loved and knew back home is DEAD? (maybe not so much for Krogen and Asari but everyone else this is the case)

You are not going to a location where there is any infrastructure, this means the majority of the service orientated jobs are GONE and you are NOT going to start the vast vast majority of them up again until you have stable food supplies, light and heavy industry up and running. Reporters are a luxury that no colony can support until such time as you have infrastructure in place to support the colony over the long term and that takes years to establish.

They are not just taking citadel space and transplanting and entire civilization on Andromeda we are COLONIZING Andromeda. Seriously it is like people haven't studied any history on these forums.

The Arks are like city hubs, so I imagine life won't be too hard for a while. Plus I think people would want a friendly face updating them on all recent events.

EDIT: The hubs are city like from what we saw from some concept art anyway.

[Furisco]

I want a new stupid ****** to punch in the face and have a good laugh.

 

 

But sure! We can have a serious reporter on the Ark. Don't se any reason to have one on the Tempest.

[capn233]

Since Allers was mostly pointless (except for an implied no-strings-attached liaison), I don't really see much point.

[Gothfather]

The Arks are like city hubs, so I imagine life won't be too hard for a while. Plus I think people would want a friendly face updating them on all recent events.

EDIT: The hubs are city like from what we saw from some concept art anyway.

you are failing to grasp the INFRASTRUCTURE required to maintain the 'city'. The fact that teh ships are "city" like doesn't create infrastructure to supply them. They need agriculture to feed themselves, they need light industry to create parts to replace those that wear out. They need heavy industry to create the building materials to create the infrastructure they don't have. You need transportation infrastructure to move supplies from where they are created to the people who need them.

 

You are ignoring the fact that NONE of this infrastructure is in Andromeda it has to be created having service industries are the LAST things to develop. This is why you see economies evolve from agrarian to industrial to service. You can't bypass these steps. IT requires that you develop an agrarian infrastructure first you need EXCESS food to feed and grow your populace, you need INDUSTRY to create the tools you need to maintain your existing infrastructure and industry to create teh building materials to expand your infrastructure. This isn't simply transporting a city from one spot to another. You need roads, docks, space ports just for a transportation network. But you also need pasts for existing vehicles to use the transportation networks, you need to create more ships, vehicles and 'cars' to fill the need to move things along your transportation infrastructure that doesn't exist yet. These vehicles need power and power needs some type of fuel. Said fuel has to be processed which requires still more infrastructure. You need infrastructure to create the tools to harvest the fuel, you need infrastructure to build the infrastructure to build the refinery to refine your fuel.

 

It is IMPOSSIBLE to bring all these things with you. SO having cities in ships doesn't solve the issue you NEED to build the infrastructure in Andromeda and it has to go in order and this puts service based job on the back burner. Simply because having a" friendly face" would be nice to have doesn't magically create all the infrastructure need to support reporters. The developers have told us part of the game is exploring to help find resources to keep your colony alive. So we know this is part an parcel of the game by design. They are no simply transplanting a fully developed community from citadel space to Andromeda.

 

Do gamers seriously think that if you magically teleported London to a different planet that it would one survive (assuming it was earth like)? Or that people would still go and get a takeout curry to watch the football match because hey all infrastructure is, is a city?

[IHaveReturned1999]

More like an archivist to document on what adventures and historical findings and such.

[CrimsonN7]

Nah, not really.

Wasting Emily Wong was lame btw.

[The Night Haunter]

Yeah! BioWare could get another IGN reporter to base the character off of to get better reviews again! Sounds like a totally good idea!

[Wulfram]

A "journalist" doesn't really need much infrastructure and could easily be a secondary job or even a hobby. They surely would exist in some form in an Andromedan colony.

[Dean_the_Young]

you are failing to grasp the INFRASTRUCTURE required to maintain the 'city'. The fact that teh ships are "city" like doesn't create infrastructure to supply them. They need agriculture to feed themselves, they need light industry to create parts to replace those that wear out. They need heavy industry to create the building materials to create the infrastructure they don't have. You need transportation infrastructure to move supplies from where they are created to the people who need them.

 

You are ignoring the fact that NONE of this infrastructure is in Andromeda it has to be created having service industries are the LAST things to develop. This is why you see economies evolve from agrarian to industrial to service. You can't bypass these steps. IT requires that you develop an agrarian infrastructure first you need EXCESS food to feed and grow your populace, you need INDUSTRY to create the tools you need to maintain your existing infrastructure and industry to create teh building materials to expand your infrastructure. This isn't simply transporting a city from one spot to another. You need roads, docks, space ports just for a transportation network. But you also need pasts for existing vehicles to use the transportation networks, you need to create more ships, vehicles and 'cars' to fill the need to move things along your transportation infrastructure that doesn't exist yet. These vehicles need power and power needs some type of fuel. Said fuel has to be processed which requires still more infrastructure. You need infrastructure to create the tools to harvest the fuel, you need infrastructure to build the infrastructure to build the refinery to refine your fuel.

 

It is IMPOSSIBLE to bring all these things with you. SO having cities in ships doesn't solve the issue you NEED to build the infrastructure in Andromeda and it has to go in order and this puts service based job on the back burner. Simply because having a" friendly face" would be nice to have doesn't magically create all the infrastructure need to support reporters. The developers have told us part of the game is exploring to help find resources to keep your colony alive. So we know this is part an parcel of the game by design. They are no simply transplanting a fully developed community from citadel space to Andromeda.

 

Do gamers seriously think that if you magically teleported London to a different planet that it would one survive (assuming it was earth like)? Or that people would still go and get a takeout curry to watch the football match because hey all infrastructure is, is a city?

 

Dude- service industries also exist where there's no infrastructure. Service industries sometimes exist because there is no infrastructure, because it's a capital-light sort of employment that provides desired products- such as, you know, information.

 

Nor is manpower the key to building the sort of infrastructure that the Mass Effect colonists need. They don't need everyone doing mining ore, or manning forges, or building heavy industry. That's what the robots and fabricators are for. No one serious in the Mass Effect universe uses manual labor for technological industry. This isn't 'real world colonization' in which survival means subsistence farming.

 

And even real world colonizers where subsistience farming was a thing absolutely had service industry jobs- entertainers, religion, artists, and, yes, even media. Information is always in demand, and even the most totalitarian, xenophobic, and economically incompetent states around (like, say, North Korea) recognize that reporters and media are a vital aspect of information operations, both internally for social influence and outwardly for diplomatic aspects.

 

The 'infrastracture' needed to support a reporter in the Mass Effect universe is a computer, a camera, and a miniature fabricator. AKA, an omnitool, which just about everyone has. If the colonists don't have the food production and storage ability to not be able to feed a journalist and production crew, they don't even have nearly enough to care about heavy industry either.

[Tatar Foras]

Would of been cool if they brought back Emily Wong. Too bad they killed her off on Twitter.

Wait what?? When did this happen?!

[capn233]

Wait what?? When did this happen?!

 
There's a long chain...

 

https://twitter.com/...843325180088322

 

https://twitter.com/...874800814370819

[Tatar Foras]

 
There's a long chain...

 

https://twitter.com/...843325180088322

 

https://twitter.com/...874800814370819

 

Well that's disappointing 

[BloodyMares]

No reporters in Andromeda. No point in having them there. All information should be announced directly from the top.

[iM3GTR]

Since Allers was mostly pointless (except for an implied no-strings-attached liaison), I don't really see much point.

Allers was one of my most conclusive pieces of evidence that Mass Effect 3 was actually EA and Bioware pulling a massive practical joke.

[Gannayev of Dreams]

No, doesn't make sense. Of all the nods they could to the original trilogy this would be the least inspired.

[DarkKnightHolmes]

But how can anyone top the great Diana Aller? It's all down hill from there, folks.

[Asari_Party]

If it fits with the story, then I don't see why not. I guess the idea behind Allers was good, but the execution was lacking.

[Sartoz]

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Nope.  Everyone must earn their living. And, that is not on the dole of someone else.

 

Until the population + infrastructure exists, ... no reporters.

[UpUpAway]

No reporters in Andromeda. No point in having them there. All information should be announced directly from the top.

 

... and if that is the case in any colony, an "independent rag" (renegade reporting) is likely to soon develop... because people tend to distrust what just continually comes down from the top.

[Halfdan The Menace]

One krogan reporter.