It would be great if there was an RPG that allowed you to program your character to do things so he could play when you were not available.  Role Playing is great but doing it in an online game is very time consuming and burdeonsome to someone who has a family, etc. - it would be nice if there were parts of the game that accomidated this, ie mercenaries for hire, you put your char in a certain mode that makes him avail to AI fight to assist others who need a particular quest done, or some healing power, whatever.

Out of the context of Planshift, think about it.  You come back to take control of the character and someone sends you a tell who used your char to fight an epic battle earlier, they thank you for the effort.   Maybe a new catagory of game, AI-RPG.  RPG meets virtual pet??