User blog comment:The Shadow User/Squadmates in Mass Effect 3/@comment-1746153-20101013152254

I believe something like this could work: there will be a lot of people to recruit but you won't be able to have more than n people at the same time. For example, you can have 13 squadmates on the Normandy - if you've lost some of your ME2 squadmates, you'll be able to recruit some new ones, or maybe replace those you already have, even if everyone survived - but so that their quantity never exceeds 13. Unless there's a new, bigger ship, there just won't be enough place for too many squadmates.