Yeah, speaking of Renegon...
My own "Renegade with a Heart of Gold" Engineer Shep is having a hard time on Feros. Not because of dying (...okay, there's dying) but because the game does not let you take a middle ground with the colonists. This is also where metagame clashes with roleplay hardcore.
See... I want renegade points. But at the same time, this is a moral event horizon. So my original plan was for this to be Shepard's greatest mistake, where he let his pursuit of Saren blind him so badly that he lost sight of what was important... and that it would burden him forever.
To prevent it from being total, though, I saved three colonists. I go through the arduous fight with the Thorian, finish it up, and...
No points. Not even a few Paragon points. Not even any Renegade points. None. The game just punished me for not dedicating myself fully to one path or another.
This defeats the purpose of everything, so... uh... yeah. I'm gonna have to go back and fight the Thorian all over again.
In so far as Paragon points go, this would really unbalance me if I just suddenly got a ton of those. So... urgh.
This sucks.