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Nighshade: (to Didou) Greetings...
Didou: Hello, have a chat?
Nighshade: ERROR MESSAGE 117: BOT UNABLE TO PERFORM GIVEN TASK NAME have a chat. PLEASE TRY AGAIN!

What does that message mean? It was a conversation between my bot and another, apparently.

hahhaaa
I'm dumb.
Disregard that. I just realized that is registered 'have a chat' as a command, and the error message is a fake that I set up as a joke type thing...I might have to get rid of that...

I thought it was a clever, I would leave it.

TALKING TO THADSTER this is your friend Ben!! I made a new acount and Night Zelda2 is the name of it. So if you read this please post a letter to me noting that you did read it. If i dont here from you in three days i will call you on the phone. OK talk to you soon!
Your friend Ben P.S. I talked to your bot Aldroon yesterday and today.

My bot is not that great so far but he is kind of smart so if you can please talk to him so I can read thme transcripts. My bot is R4-P17

hi does antbody no how 2 add freinds 2 your list

click their picture, then find where it says add to friends about midway down the page just click it.

Hello: I want to destroy my bot but it's too old to abort. The 'professor' link does not work for some reason and the e-mail I sent to PF did not go through. Anyone know what's up with that? Also, I can't seem to get seek to work in xinitiate, though it seems to work elsewhere. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

The seek doesn't always work in xinitiate, it's just a bug.

You could set the bot to hibernate.
It would take up space still, though.

To kill off a bot that has served its purpose, just take out all of the code except for one line for each of the xkeyphrases. Then wait overnight. It will return back to newborn, and you'll be able to abort it. It's much easier if you export the old file and import a stripped-down version of it. Lately, though, you still have to go into the Language Center to get rid of the xnonsenses.

I think it's better to abort bots you're really done with (not as in perfected, but often I realize after working on them for a while -- most recently with Wilde Thang -- that what I had in mind won't work or at any rate isn't working). It seems more honorable to kill them off than to keep honor for garbage. I have proven time and again that you can get honor and AI points for lousy bots. I just want to announce right here that that's not my goal. It embarrasses me. But you learn things from building lousy bots that weren't well-thought-out, so I am comfortable with killing off bots that need killing off. Even God needed a flood.

You have the option of stripping it down and rebuilding it, of course. But you can abort it easily without the professor's help.

i think, rebuilding is a good idea. perhaps not all of an existing bot is bad, one can keep good bits and start writing a new one on that template. killing it off and creating a new bot are in fact unnecessary steps, if you think about it.