[CF-Devel] Issues I'de like to bring up

Sat Apr 27 21:36:07 CDT 2002

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From: "Tim Rightnour" <

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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] Issues I'de like to bring up

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      On 28-Apr-03 Justin Zaun wrote:

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      > Agreed. but the boring people should have some built-in AI. hold some

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      > kind of converation that really don't give up any info at all.

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      Heh.. how fun/annoying would it be to put an eliza engine on all the

     speechless
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      NPC's...  :)  Of course you would have to seed it with game relevant

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      information, like possibly lore.

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      Could do things like look for basic words like "hello hi help" and have it

     just
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      spit out a random peice of lore, and if you say something more complex,

     have it
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      just generate an eliza response.  Of course.. to make it interesting, much

     like
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      rumors in nethack, we would have to preload some false ones.

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     That was part of the idea for lore, to feed conversation by key word as well
as generate books.  I was playing with Megahal one day and thought it would
be neat to have some NPC's hooked to a couple of 'personalities' with some
game information.  Many years ago on PostModernMoo, I played with markov
chainers that would listen in on conversations and the spit out a jumble of
orderly nonsense.  I always wanted to do a site where I had 'great writer'
markov chainers filled up with all their works and you could generate a
pseudo story.  Anyway, they chew up CPU, but then again that was when 40mzh
was bleeding edge (hey, maybe have the engine on the clientside...)

Of course I didn't think to jumble up the lore, but feed it out random based
on weight and keyword.
I didn't think it would be all NPC's but there is no reason it couldn't be
(unless it was onerous for players to hear all the chatting.)  Since it will
take a while to build up a lore pile, I figure there is time to work out the
details.  Heck there is still some waffling on the data format.  Something a
bit more than a single keyword -> lore table would be required I think.
Andi suggested location and level information has been kicked around.  False
rumors is a new twist - a good idea, I guess there will have to be a little
guide for lore creation including ranking and lies guidlines.  Maybe even a
true/false field for maintainers to see (maye also hooked to a player's
charisma...If they don't like you they lie more often...)

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