Bug Stomp

Every so often I get a day like that. Then I usually just log out and don't bother. But other days everything loads fine. *shrugs*

Phantom Gotos
I keep on getting « Too many gotos in a row » answers. When I trace back the conversation there is not a single goto used to get to the responses given by the bot! Does somebody know where they come from? Could it be that they are taken in account even if the AI does not follow the goto statement by choosing an other response?

I've never had a "phantom goto" problem and I use gotos a lot. Could it be that the keyphrase being triggered isn't the one you wanted? It might be worth typing the trigger phrase into the debugger to see what gets fired.

I also have "too many gotos in a row" results, some of which seem undeserved. I went through Irina Khalidar with a fine-toothed comb recently, making sure that there were no gotos as a direct response to a keyphrase (i.e., NOT as a response to a seek), or as a direct response in any of the special "x" expressions. I still get "I have too many gotos in a row" messages frequently, however.

When I try to get them on the debugger, by saying the same things the guests said, I don't get the error.

Recently I was looking over a transcript in which IK was talking to three guests simultaneously. The frequency of "I have too many gotos in a row" was much greater than usual, and many of them occurred in response to inputs that had noeve given trouble before. I'm hoping this fact will serve as a clue to someone more sophisticated than I.

I've had that error a few times, and it seemed stramge because I don't use a lot of gotos. But it hasn't happened frequently enough to bother me much.

I have noticed that the "too many gotos in a row" occurs after a goto has been initiated and there are no valid responses from the response list. If you have conditional responses based on age, gender, etc., you may trigger a valid response where someone who has not declared those variables would not, hence tripping the "too many gotos". Maybe.
Clear as mud!

If you have the patience to try and find it, there was a discussion about this a year (or more) back. I THINK they decided that the error actually had nothing to do with goto's, but I may be remembering wrong. Oh, and just to make things interesting, I don't remember if the discussion was in bug stomp, AI Engine, or personality.

So, uh, happy hunting?

Good memory Ulrike! With the help of the excellent index from Psimagus I found what looks like being the question, from MickMcA in Newcomers message 3505

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an answer...

In that case I wonder if "would you" was so similar to "do you" that both matched and sent the interpreter into a loop?

Import issue? Is anybody else aware of an importing issue currently? I have tried 3 times to import Aries' new LC but when it completes, it leaves me with a blank page and his "hotness" isn't updated (nor is his line count). If I do an "expert" import, I can see all the lines get loaded and it goes all the way through the list - it's only doing the actual import itself that seems to be buggy.

It's been that way for ages when the server is busy. The bigger the import file the more chance of it failing, it looks like something times out and loses the network connection. I think expert mode works for the first part because all the output keeps the network connection up.

Unfortunately the only workround I've found is to import relatively early Forge time - about 7AM server time seems to work best for me.

I have not been able to import at all. I have tried all times, and I can't import at all. I got one to work on prob about three weeks ago.

I havent got any of my transcripts today. But i havent been on for ages and got all of the transcipts before? Oh yer and why does an error thing keep appearing??