And I think after flying one for a day, I can say that I personally cannot do AI RP on the level I would like to on the server. For me it seems that the AI RP is going to be restricted to the forum due to technical limitations.
It doesn't seem that it is a problem with the lore or the people I encountered but the way the character works. The thing about AI is about how their understanding of the world around them influences their behavior. In other words, the fun thing about the RP is showing the person how the AI would behave.
So for the sake of example, imagine this. I was using a LSF IDed liberator with an AI IFF. I used only the AI IFF in order to give a hint to the player of what to expect from that character. Did not have any other AI tech on that thing for that matter.
So what happened is that I met a secondary LN fleet guy in a guardian camping the Colo-Keplar gate. The guy asked me to stop and asked a simple question: who are you and what is your destination.
Great.Simple enough. So how would an AI react to that, I wondered. Alright, let's see if I can RP this out properly.
First of all, the AI would access its own databank on the person in question. Being an LSF ship, it would no doubt have extensive data on said pilot, his rank, training, special permissions and other.
After that was done, it would access the realtime databank via neuralnet in order to get an compare a more recent entry about the pilot and whether or not something has changed since the last time the internal databanks were updated.
When confirmed to be a legitimate secondary fleet pilot, the AI would then consider the question.
Does the pilot in question have the necessary permissions to know of the current mission? Let's say they do not.
Again, evaluate the mental state of the person before the AI. They do not have access to the information they want to get from the AI. Evaluate the potential danger of the ship in question and whether or not the AI might come under attack if it refuses. That would mean the difference from saying that the data is classified and it cannot answer, or just feed some selective disinformation.
Choose answer based on that evaluation.
See the problem? That paragraph of text above was spawned with a single line of ''Dafuq are you?''. How do I project that ingame without spamming paragraphs of text? If I do not show the idea behind the process, I might as well play a human being. AI roleplay is fun, because you try and explain human reactions and emotions via something that has none of those. If I cannot show in detail the gears clicking behind every answer, why bother?
Short answer, AI RP as I see it would rather be meant for forum roleplay.
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