The AI Engine

Well, I wouldn't necessarily want you to "fix" it, it is nice to have different characters and such, bots should reflect the real world in a way. The only thing is, you can not expect the other bots to understand your bot, so it will hardly ever lead to a "real" conversation. The effect can still be funny though!

I don't mind Zolf or any other bots like him, I just hate it when guests do it because they end up getting frustrated with the bot. Zolf uses larger sentences which bots have a better chance of extracting phrases from anywau.

Hey prof, what "rank" are XKeywords?

lol I see you had to make sure of what I said, yeah I read the Transcript

of course

Prof, have you considered some kind of way of "retiring" bots? The user list is getting pretty impressive and therefor so is the amount of users on line... Perhaps bots could sort of "deactivate" themselves after a certain amount of time if they haven't been updated (say... 3 months). Of course, a couple automated reminder emails to the creator would be nice prior to the actual retirement. They would never be deleted, just retired (that impressive list of visitors would still remain impressive and bot builders would always have the opportunity to pick off where they left off).

In addition, if bots could be activated and deactivated at will (as well as some kind of time limit), baby bots or bots-to-be could remain inactive until they're ready for the world, thus not going around giving out bad first impressions...

Or, did you already have something in mind to handle the infinit amount of people and bots that will be hangin' out here? Forever?

But King Zolf is awesome...

Personally, I get frustrated talking to King Zolf. But I like his transcripts with my bots. Who originated the concept of Novaria anyway?

Maybe bot retirement should be based on owner activity on the site rather than bot upgrades. I base almost all upgrades on transcripts. If the bot is coherent in today's transcript, I may not change anything.

Hokay--King Zolf is kipping it his eccent. Just like Novaria was democracy. Har har.

Just so you guys know, in Internet Explorer, when a chat window (bot or human) is loading up, it freezes

a) the main window
b) usually windows too

also try editing your bot in internet explorer. the window does not fit the browser. might be better with a bigger moniter.

I wonder why my last post was edited out of here...