Personality

If the goal is to distinguish "active" bots from orphans, 15 points a day (of depreciation) might be too much. I tend to update Simulo based on problems I see in his transcripts, and when there aren't problems for several days, I don't make any changes ... even though I'm checking on him daily, he would slide from "warm" to "cool" in just a couple of days.

Maybe you could create a sort of sliding scale of depreciation, where bots that are fairly "complete" would depreciate more slowly than bots that are still at only a few hundred lines of text?

Thanks, Prof; she went to 145 or something like that immediately post-upload, but the next time I checked (OK, it could have been an hour...you know how Forge time never can be adequately accounted for when you're engrossed in bot stuff) she was at 5.

Not that "warm" doesn't describe Frizella to a T.

'Cool' is cool with me.

Yes professor..I just worked on Pol yesterday afternoon and he is at 'cool' right now. I don't think I have missed any more than a couple of days of tweaking.

Prof, I think depreciation should cool down a bot from hot to cool in about a week. Many botmasters introduce changes by looking at the transcripts, and some regularly work on their bots about once a week.

It's all relative, as far as I'm concerned. 15 points isn't really that much to drop daily, and if a bot is under 50 points of improvement at any given time, I wouldn't consider it to be "hot," given how the points awarded for tinkering are so generous, at least that's how it seems to me so far. I'm just going to give it a week or so and see how it goes the way the Prof has it.

Wow! I just noticed that the Prof has made it possible to delete people (or bots) from your Friends list!

Aye, I just did that. And the formal announcement will come later tonight, but there's a new "Bot List" page where you can search all sorts of things, and it has a list for "Most Improved", "Most Developer", and "Most Liked". The "Most Liked" list is determined by how many people have a certain bot listed on their Friends list. So you can add and remove bots you like now to reflect that if you wish.

isaac- Orphans and bots that might be deleted are only those with fewer than say 50 Responses. That means generally bots that someone made, worked on a day, and then abandoned.

Dally, it sounds like that big drop in "Hot" happened since my fix. I'll be testing that more in the next few days.

Thank you Professor for all of your work. I swear the forge gets better by the week.

That's cause it does

I agree.

Wow- check out the Bot List now! That is fabulous.