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The future of AGS Online?

I had an idea for a game a few years ago when I first played 'Shenmue' on the Dreamcast.  I was blown away how you could talk to all the characters in the game and how detailed the landscape was, I thought it would be cool if it was an online game and each of the characters ingame was a real person.

So imagine this for a game... Say it was called 'AGS World'

You use a character editor to design your own unique looking player and name it.
When you start the game you get your own apartment.
The apartment is then linked to a city, that you can explore it, meet other players and chat to them and then the skys the limit. The city could be expandable so the city could become a country and ultimately a world.

So its like a 2D Game with an integrated chat program.
Instead of creating a 'chat room' you could create your own house where characters can meet.

With a broadband connection and the simple interface of AGS It would be fast, easily upgradable and damn fun.  So lets do away with this 3 Dimensional world and create our own world in cyberspace 

I've noticed that a few production games are being advertised as 'Commercial' rather than Freeware.  To be honest theres no way I'd buy an AGS game no matter how good it looked (unless It gained such status that It became available in ComputerGame shops and I rarely buy them).
So whats the general opinion? Would You buy one? or have you bought one? and if so which one? and was it worth it?

I downloaded that Google Earth and its soo cool,
I found My House
My Friends House
Your House
The statue of liberty
The egyption sphyinx
and Area 51
... However It couldnt find Atlantis .
Looking at the otherside of the earth theres a whole area of sea with nothing but water, I never really realised this ( i havent seen a globe for years and the flat world map doesnt show how big this area is)
So I have my own conspiracy theory, there is a continent there! , its just been removed from all maps,  flight paths , shipping paths and satillite photos..... either that or its just under the water .... maybe it sank?

I've been modifying the MI2 GUI(1:MAINGUI) so I can have a better backround Image, because I need to use the GUI to the left and the bottom of the screen It fills the whole area and my character wont walk around the screen because the GUI is covering my backround.
I think I need to create a seperate GUI for the Inventory and one for the command Buttons, but Im guessing this requires alot of script and I havent found a decent GUI Tutorial to learn to do it myself.
Can someone help me with this?

Project on Hold Currently working on TRLE BioHazard Mod
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