Improvement for NPCs

[Kerol]

To have that for pets is a very nice idea, I think. It wouldn't require a lot of effort from the devs/GMs to train them as the owner would do it. GMs however would require a way to review the pet personality and/or a command to reset it if someone really screwed it up.

I'd love to see that! ...and I *think* that's a bit simpler to do then watch out for all the NPCs what they're learning from random people. ...ye gods! *I* know I wouldn't want some of them to repeat what I've told them after a quest I did broke or got seriously stuck in it.

That's what I meant with

But there the effort there can be minimised (following Alan's example) by giving the player the option to save the chatlog with the chatterbot/NPC and simply having a dev (I volunteer  Clap ) reviewing the logs and correcting the behaviour.

A chatterbot-NPC would ask "do you really want me to remember what you just told me?" [yes/no] at the end of a conversation.
If you choose [yes], your log gets saved and is opened for reviewal, otherwise it doesn't affect the NPC.

[hook]

A chatterbot-NPC would ask "do you really want me to remember what you just told me?" [yes/no] at the end of a conversation.
If you choose [yes], your log gets saved and is opened for reviewal, otherwise it doesn't affect the NPC.

That's a possibility but I see two problems with it:
1) It might get a bit annoying when the NPCs ask you all the time if you want them to remember what you just said to them
2) erm ...I can very well imagine that people would just say "yes" if they were in a rage ...this could be solved with penalties from the GMs for the people who would badmouth the NPCs and told them to remember it.

[Ralleyon]

About bots... I stumbled a couple of years across ALICE, and think she is a pretty good example of a talking bot. Of course, she has eveloved a lot since then. You can find her here and a link to the download page which offers some interesting links there. Give it a shot... who knows?