Mass Effect galaxy, character development, and other questions

I heard it lets you replay the game with the same character you developed your first play through. Can a level 60 adept have all skills/powers maxed out? Or are there not enough advancementpoints on the way to 60 to do that?

If you can play through multiple times with the same character, how are they going to transferyour choices to Mass Effect 2?

Currently I have vermire, feros, noveria, and the bring down the skyasteroid labeled on my star map... are all the other systems side quest systems, or will I eventually be given assignments in them, and they too will be labeled on my star map? I want to do all the side quests so I don't know if I should go to them early or wait for them to be labeled on the star map by assignments given from the counsel (like Vermire was. Its name didn't show up first, then the counsel told me about it and it got labeled).

Do achievements that open up abilities for other character classes (like cast lift 75 times and make lift available to all classes) have to be achieved in 1 play through?

lastly, do you think it's better to pursue Liara or Ashley romantically?

BTW, mass effect rocks. A little bit like KOTOR with shooter combat. It'd kick ass if they made a KOTOR3 that instead of being turn based/real timeused light saber combat like the Jedi Knight series... I never played those on Xbox, though, don't know how the whole dynamic light saber swing thing would work without a mouse.

Or maybe they should just stick with what works as far as KOTOR goes and let mass effect be mass effect. All I can say is that it has given me a great appreciation of the action RPG genre. Anyway, enough of my side ramblings.

I heard it lets you replay the game with the same character you developed your first play through. Can a level 60 adept have all skills/powers maxed out? Or are there not enough advancementpoints on the way to 60 to do that?

If you can play through multiple times with the same character, how are they going to transferyour choices to Mass Effect 2?

Currently I have vermire, feros, noveria, and the bring down the skyasteroid labeled on my star map... are all the other systems side quest systems, or will I eventually be given assignments in them, and they too will be labeled on my star map? I want to do all the side quests so I don't know if I should go to them early or wait for them to be labeled on the star map by assignments given from the counsel (like Vermire was. Its name didn't show up first, then the counsel told me about it and it got labeled).

Do achievements that open up abilities for other character classes (like cast lift 75 times and make lift available to all classes) have to be achieved in 1 play through?

lastly, do you think it's better to pursue Liara or Ashley romantically?

e575

A level 60 cannot max out of their skills. As nice as it would be, there are not enough stats points. As far as transferring your choices over to ME2, my guess is that it will allow you to select which beaten game you want to transfer over and that it will work like the current system does when starting a new game, where you can pick either a new character or any existing one.

The side missions will never be labeled on your map. In fact, some many not ever be discovered unless you actually entered into the star system it's located. Achievements for abilities can be achieved in multiple play throughs, and as far as I understand, you don't even need to save after using them for uses to count towards the achievement.

And as far as which one to pursue, that's all personal opinion. Personally, I've done each one once.

Damn, and I actually invested points in charm before I realized how easy it was to get paragon points (which boost your charm automatically) on some missions. I was hoping with all those level ups between now and 60I'd be basically able to max out my adept. I've made some dumb development decisions.

I think I'll play through as soldier at least once, but so far I'm glad I picked adept for my first playthrough. Just too bad I'm probably making some noob mistakes. I've unlocked all of the biotic powers... should I max pistols and armor, go for spectre training (maxed adept, already) or start levelling up my biotic powers?

One thing I don't like about this game is the need to take a character with some engineering skills to get the loot out of encrypted lockers. I took Wrex andLiara with me on Feros just to see what it'd be like with everyone usingbiotics and we left behind an awful lot of unopened lockers 'cause no one had decryption. Figured I'd just take an engineer back to the lockers after the fight, and now it won't let me use the elevator to get back to them. Oh well.

I should have maxed pistols, taken armor only to the point it unlocks pistols, after that take barrier for defense not armor, and not spent points on charm. Oh well, live and learn.

Is it worth buying the weapons from vendors or will you find adequate ones along the way?

Does bastion increase your warp and barrier ability or just augment them?

Im not sure how they are going to do the transfering of accounts. but hopefully they do it right.

Im not sure how they are going to do the transfering of accounts. but hopefully they do it right.

doug789