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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Goal orienetd NPCs</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: Nathan Yospe <<A HREF="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
:At 09:00 AM 5/28/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
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:Heh, yep. :)
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:I designed soemthing alogn the same lines. I staredt with as gedanken
:experimient of a shop keeper though I suspect alot of it coudl be
:generalized.. basicly ist a black board algorithym, witha list of
:"motivatoras" each of which examines something about the tarnsaction and
:posts a positive or negatoive value back. total reactio nto the propsoed
:transactio nis asum of all of these "motivators" responses.
Hmm. These add an element of instinctive response. I don't like blackboard
algorithms... I prefer weighted nets or scaled axis algorithms, as they
tend to have more of a realistic feel... but the concept is interesting.
:I took it a stp furtehr and added something that you didn't mention, memory
:and bias. Ina simple sense, neural nets are sterotype engines, they
:basicly tell you "this never before seen set of inpuits looks MOSt like
:thes existing sets of inputs.." So I calculated a final mood at the end of
:all transactiosn and back-propegated that i na net where the inpust were
:visibly ascertainable chgaracteristics of the charaxcter (height, weight,
:sex, hair color, value of clothes, etc....) Thsi cna be pre-baised by
:pre-trtainign the net. The net is used when a transactio nbegins to get an
:initial "reaction" value to the customer.
I have been tweaking around with my memory net, which is starting to
influence parts of my skill net, but I have yet to apply it to social
behavior outside of interpretation of the natural language parser. This
might be an interesting three week delay to project completion...
:The communciation point of yours turns otu ot be the hardest, im still
:thingk abotu hwo to give lues in a reasponse by the NPC that shows which
:motivators were most strongly invovled in teh decision and stoill lookign
:like reasonable english...
You mean unlike your posts? (Methinks either a spellchecker, or slightly
slower typing is in order... I could barely read this, and that mainly
because I am a speedreader.)
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00956" HREF="msg00956.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 00:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01060" HREF="msg01060.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 03 Jun 1997, 02:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00919" HREF="msg00919.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] lots of stuff, sigh.</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 29 May 1997, 12:56 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00908" HREF="msg00908.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Goal orienetd NPCs</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 29 May 1997, 02:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00923" HREF="msg00923.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Goal orienetd NPCs</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Thu 29 May 1997, 13:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00907" HREF="msg00907.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Levels and Goals [was Alright..IF your gonan do</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 29 May 1997, 02:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00970" HREF="msg00970.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Levels and Goals [was Alright..IF your gonan do</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 06:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00922" HREF="msg00922.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Levels and Goals [was Alright..IF your gonan do</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00984" HREF="msg00984.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Levels and Goals [was Alright..IF your gonan do</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 12:12 GMT
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