Not sure if serious? There’s no AI in this at the moment, it’s just canned text the dev wrote himself. It has a small amount of things it will respond to, but again, it’s all canned. He has talked about the potential of hooking it to an AI chat bot in the future but that’s years away, if ever. I’m sure it will be integrated into other games soon, if not this one.
Yeah the Lumi "response" I originally posted was pure coincidence, although it was odd it responded well after the others had been yapping. I wasn't 100% sure at the time of posting that to be honest, was literally my first 5min in the game. It was a perfect funny moment I just had to share. The longer you play, the less sense they make in /shout sometimes. One of them named Brock seems to be on a permanent loop of "Bruh"
Direct quote from Dev:
Q: Does Erenshor use an AI model?
A: No. Erenshor is not built with nor does it run on any AI models. The SimPlayers are driven by text parsers, state machines, and decision trees.
Certainly hope there is plans to expand it, perhaps allow a little interaction/reaction to the player. There's already hidden responses for quests like EQ, not much of a stretch to throw in some triggers for chat, with some slightly generic responses. I haven't actually taken the time to see if they respond to anything at all yet, I was gonna play around with /shout ect today to make sure. I know they say shit after i kill them with the croc sometimes lol, even if it's not directed to me.
They do all behave oddly real once in awhile. Sometimes I'll zone into a dungeon, and there's one sitting there soloing, and they will bail out of the zone, or if deeper in they may shout train They clearly been there awhile, because of all the little treasure boxes sitting there (they leave their loot behind, it's always junk too) There's enough illusion for me to get a kick out of it.
It's a positive start, and the dev seems dedicated to the game. Easily worth ~20$, even this early.
Edit: typing LFG in shout in the city gives a response lol, must be more
Just figured out they actually will buy the shit they are spamming WTB in chat, I thought it was just for immersion. That's a really neat bonus feature.