The AI Engine

I thought giving it any positive value would override the xThingamabob

Oh yeah and I have a workable version of the AIM bot chat program... Skysaw, BD said you might be interested.

Oooh ooh, I was interested too! Or rather, I have a lot of friends who, when working long shifts and the boss IMs them to check if they are still there, wouldn't mind a little "fail-safe" response...
I'd love to know how you did it.

I took a Visual Basic clone of the AIM client and slapped in my Botchat parser

the parser passes the message to a guestchat page, and then takes the response and sends it to the user that sent the message

so far only one person can message over AIM at a time though, I still have to look at it, but it works with 1 person at a time chatting with your bot.

Mmm, I see how this could work. Where would one get a VB clone of the AIM client, though? Also, I'm going to have to refresh on VB, and see if I would be able to work out how to have it send stuff to websites and retrieve the messsages...

interesting shady. do you have a down load link and intructions for it?

Re: xfavorite. The system checks for xfavorite triggers before it looks at keyphrases. if it finds one, it goes straight to an xfavorite response without looking at your keyphrases. There is no way around getting random responses unless the order that things happen is changed.

How come everyone is making exact copies of other peoples' plugins? It doesn't matter who makes them, you can still use them in your bot. EX: Butterfly Dream made the "(smell)" plugin,I could use that anywhere in my bot.

While we're at it, why do people make plugins with only one item in the list? It kind of defeats the purpose.

hehehe or plugins that aren't the same part of speech... like for EX I'm going to make one:
(stufftodo)
make banana bread, eat bananas, fruit!, Eiffel Tower

so if you said "I'm going to (stufftodo)" it could say
"I'm going to make banana bread"
that's ok, but what about when it gets to
"I'm going to Eiffel Tower"?
Not very proper english.. How about
"I'm going to fruit!"

Why are you going to make that one?

The copies have mostly been made by weatherbie. Obviously, someone doesn't understand how it works.

I'm not going to make that one, I used it as an example of a bad plugin