If you were obscenely rich and had obtained the rights to the Mass Effect franchise what would you d

I respect your opinion..i do...i know people have different points of view..but really i consider myself part of the common big audience per say..and facts, actual facts and data prove my point..thats y i even gave that ex of the fanfic site.
And precisely using your own word..objectively...i think u r wrong...male Ryder ain't better than male Shepard..ok i can give you maybe the actor has better voice...but that's not enough...if u want to analyse those characters objectively as u have said u ll have to admit you are wrong... Shepard male or female is an iconic character..he and his team and all arc story of the game (one thing can not be separated from the other) are iconic characters and part of one of the best games ever. They gave us those feelings i talked about.
As i ve said...Andromeda has no soul, no salt.
You can say that were Shepard companions that made him an iconic character but it wasn't..they were a team..we felt they were a team..Shepard had those simple things that we big audience like..maybe also the system of the paragon/renegade helped yes. 
I've read dozens and dozens of fanfic stories about the Shepard and his teammates..some of them really good. This Andromeda? i feel nothing. I don t want to read nothing because i've never got into him, he (them) was never inspiring for me.
If you want to be objective..and analyse the date we have at the moment i think u have to agree with me. You can say there is only one game yet...ok..i can give you that point...but sincerely i do not believe it will improve...With Shepard and his story i got hooked in the game after 10 minute....never felt that with Ryder.

If you want to continue saying that Shepard or Mshepard has no personality its up to you. As i said its your opinion and we all have opinions.
Try to be objective. See the difference between the two games. That's the most i can try to say to you. I can see that u r not gonna change your opinion lol. That's ok.
I m not even comparing the two Shepards. I played female Shepard and enjoy it aswell.
I talked about fanfic as an example of my interest in reading shepard stories...compared with my complete lack of interest to do the same thing about andromeda. Just a small ex, nothing important.

What would I do?

Someone needs to tell the Hulk to lay off the chilli.

Whether or not the storyline or characters are derivative doesn’t really matter. What matters is that one world state won’t affect the other. The game could make big changes in one setting, and it won’t affect the other since the events don’t overlap. 

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To continue with my above post

Beside the main building, I would have a building built in the shape of the SR2. The interior will be like what is seen in the game. It will have the Bioware store. So when someone comes in to purchase whatever, he/she can walk around. Go up to Shepard's cabin to see fish in the tank. A hamster in his cage. Models of different ships. Go to the bridge to see Joker sitting in his leather seat. See Miranda in her office.  And other character in different spots on the ship. Of course they will be mannequins dressed up as whatever character.

I would go nutso with the merchandise stuff.

I will talk with Tess Oral Health about making a custom toothbrush called the Cision Pro Mach 4. It will be autographed by AWR(Alix Wilton Regan), Sam's VA. It will available in various colors.

I will talk with The House of Staunton about making customized chessboards. Make a chess set featuring Cerberus, Alliance, Reapers and each species. Buy all and the player can have a game with Cerberus against Alliance and so on. I would also have them make one like what Samantha mentions in ME3. It too will be autographed by AWR.

Even have a cookbook from the honorable Mr. Rupert Gardner on how to make Calamari gumbo

A video on how to do the Shepard shuffle

After announcing a game,  I will try to get a giant balloon of Harbinger and SR2 put in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Have the SR2 in front with Harbinger behind chasing the frigate. After that, Harbinger will travel around the world. He will be seen on one the pyramids in Egypt. On Big Ben in London. On the CN Tower in Toronto. Even see him water skiing in Hawaii. The balloon will finally rest on my building where the game is being developed. excellent

I would have a number of custom built choppers to be auctioned off to the public. There will be the Cerberus theme bike. Alliance theme bike. N7 theme bike. Of course the Harbinger, ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL, theme bike. 

I will have 5 teams working on ME
Two teams working on the games, one in the Milky Way and the other working in Andromeda. 2 teams for multiplayer.

For the multiplayer, I would include all characters. Meaning the player can play as....Udina. How about play as one of the councilors? Better yet, play as Shepard or a squadmate?  What would happen if when the player chooses a character that isn't a squadmate? Simple. A screen will pop up for him/her to choose what weapon and powers that character will use. The same for armor. For the one's who don't want to play against other players, he/she can choose private match. He/she will choose the setting. The game will choose random enemies the player will face and what characters will be at his/her side to fight against them. Each character will have at least one unique line of dialogue that is related to their character. For example,  Liara would say, "By the goddess, you will pay for that". Javik would say, "I 've been fighting longer than you have primitive", and so on.

I would add a challenge mode. Something similar to what the batman games have

I'm sure I will add more later......

would deliver everything into the hands of SofNascimento, because apparently he has the solution to save the franchise

I stand corrected.  I should know better, because I still have those boxes in my basement somewhere.  I'm a little bit of a gaming pack-rat. Seems like an eternity ago, but here is one franchise that could find a whole new fan base with a dust off and face lift.  Man I would love to play those games again in a modern engine.  Lord knows EA will never get a clue, so little hope there. 

I wonder though, what ever happened to Chris Roberts and the Origin team?

Many of them went to Digital Anvil.  Not a huge fan of Starlancer, myself., but it's an OK successor to the WC series. Never tried Freelancer.

As for what I would do with this scenario? I would personally reboot the franchise from ME2 onward. As much as that pains me due how much I love ME2, the fact is, the main plot of that game is absolutely horrible and does basically nothing to advance the main Reaper plot. I would leave as much of the game untouched as possible, but would have to remake aspects to address the new main plot, which would revolve around the idea that Andromeda tried and failed horribly at attempting. Space Exploration. The main plot would resume exactly where ME1 ended, with Shepard and company following vague stories about machine gods and Reapers as the crew of the Normandy explores new, totally uncharted worlds that resemble Havaarl and other such exotic looking planets in search of ancient ruins and texts that leads you down a path to discover the key to defeating the Reapers, which would be an ancient computer virus that disables the mass effect barriers of the Reaper capital ships, making them vulnerable to conventional weapons, this virus would be delivered via the Crucible, due to the Reapers mastery of computers and hacking, thus the Crucible would act as a brute force override that implants the virus without having to hack each Reaper individually, because that's impossible. The Terminus Systems would of course still be included as well as Omega, because of course it would.

The Normandy would still be upgraded, because it would be totally renovated by the Alliance and the Council in response to the Reaper threat, because in this version, the Council races would not be pants on head retarded, and would logically follow their attitude at the end of ME1 where they take the threat seriously, and the Council races are basically using this time as an arms build up period, similar to the Human Council variant of ME2. Shepard and crew must go Zero Dark Thirty in terms of communication with the Council races, only breaking "radio silence" when new revelations are discovered, which are delivered to the Council in person, to avoid possibly hacked comms. At the same time, TIM and Cerberus are still involved since Martin Sheen's performance was just too good to remove. TIM basically serves the same function he did originally, providing secret intel in regards to the mission, including the same "setting you up without telling you to test theories" moments. The Suicide Mission would function with the same mechanics as before because it was perfectly executed the first time. The Collectors would still be useful for the plot, because they would try to get to these ancients sites before you, trying to destroy all traces of the Crucible and Virus before you can find them. The trojan that leads the Collectors to the Normandy would be the Virus Weapon, heavily corrupted. the crew still gets kidnapped, and thus the suicide mission can play out almost exactly the same, minus the Terminator Reaper fetus. Needless to say, this would be a VERY long game. I would still include Lair of the Shadow Broker, totally untouched, as it was perfect the first time. Arrival would be heavily altered, and would result in Shepard failing in their mission to delay the arrival, and thus the Reapers arrive just as Shepard and the Normandy barely escape the system, and instantly send out a message to TIM, the Council, Omega, Earth, everyone. "I'm sorry, I failed. The Reapers are here." The game fades to black with ominous music.

That would be ME2, ME3 would involve a time skip, as we are jumped into the middle of the conflict, the invasion already ongoing. ME3 would require much more remaking imo to make it where I would want it. Tuchanka would remain untouched, Rannoch would remain untouched, the opening of the game would be changed to the Emily Wong thing they did, instead fully animated as the intro cutscene. "You wanna see how humans die? At ramming speed!" Que the Title Scroll, "Mass Effect 3" with deliberate No Music. During the time skip, the Crucible construction had already begun, and the races of the MW were waiting for the Virus to be scrubbed, decoded and added to the Crucible. This is what you are waiting for during ME3, as you go around and gathering all the allies for the final attack, doing more or less exactly what we did but with much, much less Cerberus crap, aka no limitless Cerberus zombie armies and giant fleets of ships. Because Cerberus was utterly ridiculous in ME3. Thessia would have to be basically entirely overhauled, as I felt the entire section was heavily rushed and greatly underutilized, no detailed thoughts about how to do that at this time. the game would also actually mention in news reports how the Andromeda Initiative managed to leave just before the Reapers arrival, because the reason for the Initiative was, duh, The Reapers.

Priority Earth would have to receive the most work obviously, and this is where your choices would finally come into effect. Priority Earth would be The Suicide Mission cranked to 100. The difference would be scale, as instead of companions getting orders, you give orders to entire wings of soldiers. Krogan Battalions, Salaraian STG units, Asari Commandos, Rachni swarms if spared, etc etc. These would be used in the final showdown with Harbinger, because you cannot build up a Reaper for 2 games and do absolutely nothing with him. This is where your choices would determine the fate of Shepard and all of your companions, The more forces you have, and the way you deploy them during this massive encounter would determine who lives or dies during the final battle. The goal of course is to hold Harbinger's attention while Sword Fleet mops up the Reapers in orbit, if you have very little forces, game over Reapers win, if you have moderate forces, the MW wins, but at HEAVY cost, and Shepard and all the companions die. if you have the "max" threshold of troops and execute their deployment perfectly, you win, and Shepard and his friends survive long enough for Sword fleet to close in on Harbinger, and right before blowing him away, Shepard throws it back into Harbingers face about they were destroyed by insignificant bacteria. The game would then have a playable Epilogue segment, The Citadel DLC party, as they celebrate achieving the impossible, and mourning all their lost friends along the way. The game would then go into a DAO style second epilogue, giving a paragraph at least of text talking about what happens to everyone you met across the series, The Feros colony, Novaria and Gianna, Aria and Omega etc etc, all describing what happens to every character that had a name within the trilogy, this would go on for however long, as I would let the writers go absolutely wild with this, because this is the conclusion to a Series, not just one game, and Mass Effect deserves it.

I would then, for a time, put the MW aside as it needs to rebuild from the war, and make Andromeda, which would be entirely different from what it was. But this post is long enough already and no one is going to reach this part of the post anyway, as you all gave up several paragraphs ago. Regardless, I would also expand the franchise into new genres, like a ME 4x game, spin off prequel games like First Contact which would be more shooter focused with a multiplayer focus, but still a deep campaign mode, because ME is story intensive. Eventually after a decent time skip, games taking place in the MW would return in perhaps a more DA style, with new characters and new protagonists showing up when appropriate. The Andromeda series would continue in parallel, eventually regaining contact with the MW after however long would feel believable.

This is a basic outline of what I would do with ME if i owned ME and money was not an issue. I'm sure no one else would like it and that is fine, but this is the ME I ultimately wanted, and thus is what I would do if given the chance to make it happen. if anyone, by some miracle reaches this point of this post, thank you for you're time and patience, and I hope you have a pleasant day.

The biggest changes I would do to ME2 is have the collectors as a side mission with the main mission going to darkspace. Shepard won't die at the beginning. Shepard will survive the SR1's destruction.
ME3 would be about finding a way to destroy Harbinger.

This plan has the same logic problem that Independence Day did, of course. The Reapers have no reason to consent to battle while their barriers aren't functional. They can simply withdraw and examine the problem. Unless you have the virus disable their engines too, but then it's more a duck hunt than a battle.