Ecael wrote...
iakus wrote...
So investing a lot of money to protect an even bigger monetary investment (not to mention all the personel that has been recruited for the mission so far) is bad because...?
Because Cerberus doesn't want to give you any more money to even buy weapon upgrades? He might as well build a fleet of Normandy ships.

So that shoots down the idea of blockading the relay, huh?

Sure, Shepard can investigate everything using probes before he lands on a planet or goes through a relay - anything that's heavy risk. But the probe-scanning game will then become intertwined with every planet and every relay we pass through.
The last thing Mass Effect needs is more probes.
Actually, I think I'm one of the very few who didn't mind the planet scanning minigame....
But while launcing spy probes to enter some random system may not be necessary, going through the relay
which no one has returned from to go after an advanced race
which can penetrate Normandy's stealth systems with unknown defenses
a single ship of which took apart the original Normandy like a chicken might warrant just a little bit of caution. Just me though