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[samguyjones]

Mostly, I want to say this is really amazing. It's a great way to leverage the ChatGPT api. I was thinking of having something that spoke on behalf of the colonists so that when Rimworld registers a conversation, it actually sounds it out in different voices. It's looking like the communication doesn't have to be that different. The main issue is that something would have to store speech patterns (uses extra filler words, uses run-on sentences, fond of metaphors) and voice criteria for individual colonists.

[pardeike]

Thanks!

Letting colonists speak has a few challenges:

• you cannot let them speak if they are offscreen
• Difficult association when map is too zoomed out ("who is speaking")
• Need to manage parallel speaking
• Lots more settings and potentially new settings for new colonists
• A lot more ChatGPT traffic
• Needs individual memory to create coherent speech
• If some speech is skipped they might talk about things you have missed

While most of these are solvable in one way or another it does make this use case quite complicated.

For now I focus on generating commentary including a way to have multiple personas.

[samguyjones]

Here's what I'm doing. And this is my idea of a separate mod or maybe a fork. I really appreciate you laying out the difficulties. Here's my idea for these things:

• I get that it's not ideal to have people speak offscreen, but I think it's bearable. Maybe some people have people on quests more often than I do. With the narrator, this is actually a plus, since I really like that when I'm on a quest, I get updates on everything at home camp.
  • Again, I'd just bear it. It'd pick up conversations regardless of who's on the map.
  • I was thinking it'd hit less often than your narrator and ask for a script of a dialogue between people. So it'd leave behind a lot of conversations if people spoke at once.
  • Yes, tons of settings per colonist. Speech pattern and voice settings for each colonist. That's most of the new work.
  • I was thinking the request would be "Write a dialogue between person named X and person named Y about subject Z" the responses would be big, but I think they'd be less frequent.

I should jump on the Workshop page or the steam discussions to rave about this and talk about my various adventures in narrating. Here are some of my favorite personalities:

Ira Glass from the NPR podcast "This American Life" (Tony on a slightly high pitch and slow cadence is a really good match for him)

Humor columnist Dave Barry

Novelist Jane Austin