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

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On 29-Apr-03 Mark Wedel wrote:
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        Note however that what knowledge each NPC has (From lore) has to be
     
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      generated 
     
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      once (at reset time).  Eg, if each time you said 'hi', the script went
     
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      through 
     
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      and grabbed a random piece of lore, that could basically mean you could talk
     
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      to 
     
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      that same pc for a long time and it would tell you most everything.  Isntead,
     
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      it 
     
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      should have some number of knowledge pieces, and just repeat those.
     
     
Well.. rather than that..  they should just clam up.  An NPC could track who it
has spoken to to some degree.  Say for example a randomtalking NPC will only
say 5 things to a player per reset.  If you walked up to a stranger on the
street and said "hello" 500 times, he would probably either hit you or shut up
eventually.

Also.. with something like an eliza engine, the NPC's could listen to player
conversation, and generate useless little tidbits.  

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