User blog comment:Lord General Jason Shiprat/What you want/think should be in ME4/@comment-184.36.106.112-20121113222924

I hope they set it several hundred to a thousand years after ME3's ending, so that the original trilogy can be canonically more or less self-contained regardless of the war's outcome. Rather than ignore these outcomes, or focus only on Destroy as canon, push the timeline so far forward that all the war's consequences are the stuff of legend.

I'd like the sequel's time period to show demonstrable technological advancement (no Star Wars-esque tech stagnation please).

I'd actually argue that Bioware keep the human perspective mandatory, but place the player in a different role, like colonist or diplomat. They already said they wouldn't make a Shepard 2, but it'd likely be a far more cohesive and well-written storyline if they didn't have to worry about if a player was Quarian/Turian/Drell/Asari/Volus/Vorcha/Krogan/Geth/Leviathan/etc, and how that would play into the backstory, story, and character interactions.

I'd really, REALLy like it if the citadel turned out to be connected to other citadel-like structures in other galaxies, both from an immediate story perspective and longer term franchise development.