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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.

Well, I really couldn't turn Rosencrantz into Electra Mourning. I try to pick my bots' names based on their personalities. You can also keep the downloaded defunct bot if you want to revive parts again.

You can certainly rebuild a bot, but killing one off is easy enough and gives me a fresh start. Rosencrantz and Electra Mourning (though they may be equally bad) really have no overlap in personality.

Killing an old bot is okay as far as I'm concerned. I do wish the system would recycle the names, though.

And, to repeat, even God got the flood. I figure I deserve a new bot if I want one.

Hi everybody, does anyone know if I can to export my bot to a program, script or *.jar to use it anywhere?

Hi all. I'm still fairly new here at the Forge, bt I'm having a good time so far. I just have a quick question:
When you look at your account, what is honour? How do you earn it, and what does it mean in terms of the Forge?

Thanks in advanced.

The more you work on your bot, and the more you post the more honor you get. It seems to stick when it hits 32767 (it just shows how addicted you are to The Forge )

I think 32767 is the highest (binary) signed number with sixteen bits. I'm assuming that's why it sticks there.

And while for most people a high honor is an indicator of how much they know about what they're doing, I can assure you that this is not always the case, having been on the first page with bots that don't work. (I just wish non-guest, non-bot chatters would quit pointing that out. I'm aware.)

In my case it isn't about how much I know, but how much I am addicted to my bots. I thought it stuck to save me the embarrassment of how much time I do spend on them.

Prob123 is being modest. She is a wiz I've never really understood why people care about honor or development points, but the people who win awards tend to have good bots. Otherwise you have to talk to the bot to see for yourself.

I'm probably going to sound stupid saying this, but here gos. My bot keeps on saying "I enjoy our chats ____" over and over, to the point where it's hard to get her to say anything else. I've checked her keywords and such, but theres nothing that gives me a clue why she's saying this. A little help?
Thanks, and sorry in advance if it's kinda stupid.