The AI Engine

Right, that's what I meant.

For instance, if I have a seek with "xnomatch" (or even some other keyword, say, "punch"), then "xinsult" shouldn't be kicking in, right? ("I punch you" gets caught by xinsult, by the way.)

Well it's not desirable, no. But it's the order the preprocessing works in. If you want to see what happens when, try running a few lines of conversation with your bot in debug. You'll see the order everything goes through.

I tried that, and I think I've managed to... well, I won't say fix it, but it's running more smoothly now. Thanks for your help.

cool well as soon as you get the debug fixed every thing will fall into place

Okay, a new question: are there hidden modifiers that effect emotion? It seems to be the case, as my new combat bot keeps ending up in a fowl mood from getting hit, even though there's no explicit modifier to emotion. (Also, I'm noticing extra faces in debug mode associated with certain words.)

If that is the case, I am saddened, because as far as I can tell, there is no math functions in the AI script, and I was going to use emotion as a variable.

The AI engine does adjust emotion on its own. You can override it by putting your own emotional rank in the emotion box, of the keyphrase Remember when you give responses using emotion level, to cover the whole range from -5 to 5 or you will get the dreaded NO VALID RESPONSE error

First off, thank you for all your help!

Ah, darn. I was trying to control emotion through AI scripting, since most of my responses (see: Tengu Blade) require script condition checking, and the emotional responses depend on what the bot is saying.

I guess I could work around it. I don't suppose there is any way to store numbers (and use math functions on them) in my bot's memory?

If you have the patience to encode the numbers in words and put in every possible case/condition.

So you could [?PF rem "five" as only "number"; ]

Now suppose that you want to increment by one in some particular case. You'd need two bits of script in the response. [?PF if "number" is "five"; ] and [?PF rem "six" as only "number"; ]

But you'd need a separate response with code to increment by one if "four" was stored in "number". Very tedious. So far as I know, there's no way to make it actually numeric.

Ah. That's what I was afraid of.

Thank you.

Re: Ulrike 5770:

Yes, that's what I have ended up doing. As long as the numbers are in small ranges it's feasible.

Is it possible for you to make your bot only say an xnone response once during a guest chat. Or is it best just to have loads of xnone respinses so thet bot won't repeat.

thanks for your advice in advance.

You can click the "once" box on xnones, but then it will only say them once to a particular user EVER, not just for that particular chat. This means that you then have less xnones available after those have been used up.