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Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

tanshin — Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:07 pm

Author: tanshin

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:07 pm

It would be possible. Considering we already have one bot in the cavern (OHBot) that interacts with external information I would imagine that it'd be easy to interpret chat commands and use them to run scripts (which OHBot essentially does).

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Narameh — Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:53 pm

Author: Narameh

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:53 pm

I've no idea how workable this is; maybe add an extra function to KI to handle these commands? So you can access it from anywhere in the fun house?

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

pokemon71096 — Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:28 pm

Author: pokemon71096

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:28 pm

tanshin wrote:

lteyn63 wrote:
Thanks, Tanshin. I did know about orangehaired boy bot. But as I was in the Fun House I wondered at first if that was the 'fun' for the day, i.e. the hack du jour. That they'd somehow got it so everyone's chat got automatically translated.

Now that would be funny!

Sacre bleu!
Oy vey!
Ayayayayay!

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

tanshin — Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:47 pm

Author: tanshin

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:47 pm

lteyn63 wrote:

Thanks, Tanshin. I did know about orangehaired boy bot. But as I was in the Fun House I wondered at first if that was the 'fun' for the day, i.e. the hack du jour. That they'd somehow got it so everyone's chat got automatically translated.

Now that would be funny!

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

janaba1 — Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:40 pm

Author: janaba1

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:40 pm

I just say - Yeah!!! We need more Bots haha... The somewhere proposed undo and reset
functions/options also seem to be quite appropriate to eliminate any fears and uncertainties
and thus increasing the fun...

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

lteyn63 — Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:38 am

Author: lteyn63

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:38 am

tanshin wrote:

lteyn63 wrote:
I was actually in the fun house this evening. There were about 7 other people there and the chat was all in French. At first I wondered whether there was a translation Bot there, which was translating what everyone else said, so I asked if everyone was speaking French and my chat was in English. Very peculiar.

Nothing much was happening so I left. However I noticed a strange glitch when I was in the community room in third person view. My avatar left the room but the camera view didn't, so I was kind of trapped in the room until I switched to first person, at which point I was outside the room.

They were likely talking in native French. If you'd like them translated for you take a look here: http://uru.orangehairedboy.com/babelbot/

Thanks, Tanshin. I did know about orangehaired boy bot. But as I was in the Fun House I wondered at first if that was the 'fun' for the day, i.e. the hack du jour. That they'd somehow got it so everyone's chat got automatically translated.

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

tanshin — Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:30 pm

Author: tanshin

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:30 pm

lteyn63 wrote:

I was actually in the fun house this evening. There were about 7 other people there and the chat was all in French. At first I wondered whether there was a translation Bot there, which was translating what everyone else said, so I asked if everyone was speaking French and my chat was in English. Very peculiar.

Nothing much was happening so I left. However I noticed a strange glitch when I was in the community room in third person view. My avatar left the room but the camera view didn't, so I was kind of trapped in the room until I switched to first person, at which point I was outside the room.

They were likely talking in native French. If you'd like them translated for you take a look here: http://uru.orangehairedboy.com/babelbot/

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

lteyn63 — Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:13 pm

Author: lteyn63

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:13 pm

I was actually in the fun house this evening. There were about 7 other people there and the chat was all in French. At first I wondered whether there was a translation Bot there, which was translating what everyone else said, so I asked if everyone was speaking French and my chat was in English. Very peculiar.

Nothing much was happening so I left. However I noticed a strange glitch when I was in the community room in third person view. My avatar left the room but the camera view didn't, so I was kind of trapped in the room until I switched to first person, at which point I was outside the room.

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

lteyn63 — Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:12 pm

Author: lteyn63

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:12 pm

I was actually in the fun house this evening. There were about 7 other people there and the chat was all in French. At first I wondered whether there was a translation Bot there, which was translating what everyone else said, so I asked if everyone was speaking French and my chat was in English. Very peculiar.

Nothing much was happening so I left. However I noticed a strange glitch when I was in the community room in third person view. My avatar left the room but the camera view didn't, so I was kind of trapped in the room until I switched to first person, at which point I was outside the room.

Awesome! =)

RandomLindsay — Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:49 pm

Author: RandomLindsay

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:49 pm

Good idea. =) It would be fun to have a Bot there.

Would it only be able to do things that the GreyHats did last Saturday at the FunHouse? Or would it have more?

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Zardoz — Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:46 pm

Author: Zardoz

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:46 pm

And/or set an internal timer for OHBot - if no new command is received within T minutes, the hood is reset to its default state.

Or the opposite - if no new command is received within T minutes, OHBot links to random Ages and causes them to explode . . .

Then we will rename him, SpeedBot.

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Alien — Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:39 pm

Author: Alien

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:39 pm

I'd also like to suggest that the bot is able to undo anything it can do.
Otherwise someone will fill the Fun House with Eddies and not be able to undo it.

Also give it a "reset to default" command to undo everything.

My apologies if I have no idea how difficult that would be,
but if it's possible to do something it should be possible to undo it.

And if you've already thought of it, I hope you don't mind me suggesting it.

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Malfhok — Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:11 pm

Author: Malfhok

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:11 pm

OHB wrote:

I was gonna make it a surprise!

Awww. Sorry to spoil your surprise.

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Zaphodi — Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:26 am

Author: Zaphodi

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:26 am

If it is bot, then I think it should be able on and off.

On: Standing and ready to do what it do.
Off: AFK (like charging batteries or something)

Just thought.

Zap

Re: Suggestion: Fun House Bot

Carl Palmner — Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:44 am

Author: Carl Palmner

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:44 am

Wow! That is a seriously awesome idea! Two little things that occurred to me right away (and which have probably already occurred to the gray hats as well but I'll post them anyway):

1. It should be possible for gray hats (and probably only gray hats) to easily disable/enable the bot. Come to think of it, that would probably be as simple as taking its avatar offline, so maybe this is an unnecessary suggestion.

2. It should only be in the Fun House, NOT the Hood of Illusions. If it's in the Hood of Illusions there's too much potential for it to interfere with the scheduled events there--and it's unnecessary anyway as long as players can access the one in the Fun House.