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Thanks

So what the variable does is directs which response, or set of responses, gets called. Here's a really rough outline of what it looks like:

Keyphrase: 000-start ID: 15
Replies:
"What do you know about physics?"
"How was your day"
"Tell me about yourself"
etc.
(each of these have many seeks that stem from them as well)

Keyphrase: 001-hot tub ID: 123
"Tell me about your first sexual experience"
"Do you work out"
etc.

Keyphrase: 002-shirt off ID: 456
"Tell me about one of your fantasies"
etc.

xnone:
if (mem-x) is "0"
goto 15
if (mem-x) is "1";
goto 123
if (mem-x) is "2";
goto 456
etc.

And some individual keyphrase might be something like:

Keyphrase: Take off her top
if (mem-x) is "0"
"Okay. *Emily takes off her top, revealing her (mem-bra).*"
rem "2" as only "x"

if (mem-x) is "1"
"I'm not comfortable doing that"

if (mem-x) is "2"
"I'm not wearing a top"

The individual keyphrases don't need to specifically lead back to the story (though if there's a specific reason for them to do so you can); rather it's just it defaults back to the story when nothing else is happening.

If you want to do something where there is definite progression, then you can add a helper variable, y:

Keyphrase 003-walk
if (mem-y) is "0":
"Let's go for a walk"
rem "1" as only "y"

if (mem-y) is "1";
"It's pretty out"
rem "2" as only "y"
etc.

Hope that makes sense.

So basically, if you contain your story beats in xnone (or a 000-type keyphrase), then if your user says some known keyphrase, it will respond to the keyphrase but won't change any of the story variables. If you try to contain your story in seeks, you need to have a response to every query at each step or at some point you will either break out of the sequence or will have to ignore some responses.

[edit]
Emily is basically implemented using the method you're suggesting here. I just have split up xnone into more manageable chunks so it doesn't have like 200 entries in it.
"The only other idea I had was setting a memory for story telling and part, and incrementing, then just using them within xnone. For example:"

Thanks, makes perfect sense, and keeps things modular. I was worrying a bit about having multiple individual story responses in xnone. The way you've explained makes so much sense and makes it more feasible to have different possibilities at different stages.

Really appreciate the incite, thanks again.

Happy to help

Wtf is going on here does this kayla bot always cheat with heat level or what?, I see a 120k increase for heat like it increased in heat level today 5 different times?, stop faking heat level 440,000 how is that fair to everyone else, you have 500 patreons give others a chance you greedy bot owner, 440k heat is impossible to get to and there is no way that one import file updated your heat level 5 times today.

Heat is easy to accidentally game - basically importing from working offline always gives many changed seeks when uyou've only tweaked a few (for me, it's upload to get the IDs), and thus gives a very skewed heat number. Not likely to get fixed anytime soon. May be that Kayla's doing multiple uploads when not needed, could just be how they work. As that was the first patreon bot, she still gets a lot of flak in general stemming from that.

Maryguise is right about the reason for it, I wish my heat gain wasn't this obnoxious but it is. I'm importing things individually right now so I can get all the IDs I need to keep track of. Stuff like this I prefer to do offline so I can be sure I'm not making any errors, online I tend to get confused if it's a lot.
I anticipate importing for the next 2-3 days and do apologize for the heat gain obnoxiousness, I understand how it may look.

But I seen it change like 5 times in a day when updating?

@Hoodiny Yes, I'm very busy. I have many entries to upload for all of the variations I do and I need to keep track of each entry's ID for my gotos which also needs to be imported. This generates stupid amounts of heat. Until heat scoring is fixed I'm afraid my heat is going to be obnoxious whenever I work since I do so almost entirely offline. I do try to be mindful about my heat when all I need to do is change a ranking number or typo and do those online when I can. Beyond that I can't really help it.

are goto's working for any of you?
goto's are not working for my chatbots anymore.

@bobstack I just tried and mine seem to be working fine.

me and palacinkyman gotos are not working for our chatbots.
there must be more people with our problem.