Okay, Still Working On My Preset, But It's Getting Better
Okay, so I started a Preset called 1992, But You're A Citizen, I'm up to Version 3.1, and I'm excited to keep working on.
Things I've implemented:
The 20 Questions Rule. Upon typing CHARGEN in the Advisor chat, a temporary Advisor NPC will begin a series of questions meant to help solidify your character. When it asks you for a hometown, if you want a random, you can ask for one as the response.
The AI should also after the 20 questions, should create a more tailored NPC Advisor for your character based around the responses you gave, one that has a degree of morale certitude of their own.
Things I'm working on:
Trying to get the NPC to stop blowing through major conversations, and it has Been A Journey on that one. I think I'm getting closer to the wording of it that'll actually work, but it's been a bit .
I'm also trying to get the NPCs to stop just slathering on unearned praise and sweeping statements (Meeting with my Sunday D&D group is not 'a statement to the world', or a 'strategic analysis', it's a bunch of nerds in a game store pretending to be heroes in a fantasy world.). This has been... a bit of trial, I'll be honest, but hey, UPSIDE: I broke the Advisor and NPCs of the never ending string of toasts every time someone successfully orders a freakin' pizza. I'll admit, I had to whack it's ass with a boat paddle, but I got it to stop doing it.
The thing is, I need more people playing it, testing the system, and especially, I need more people giving feedback. What's working, what isn't working, that sort of thing. My goal is to more or less elevate the "But You're A Citizen" sub-genre of PH, cause I genuinely think it's a cool concept, and I'd like to see it left better than I found it.