Yeah, that's what I was thinking - lets you pull base 3d characters from the forum contributions, but do a really simple ground plane. Buildings could be done either way, but i'd suggest putting them in as 3d, with events using scan etc, same as if it were a normal 3d game.

Populace seems really nice - bought it last week, Comm. licence and $50 populace should work for 3d players per server - makes it good for mmorpg, but i can't say i've played with it enough to absolutely say it'll work for you.

Don
have a great day