Personal AI

PROGRAMMED STAFF
Personal AI Device	Access: N/A Qualifications: N/A Employers: Not defined Supervisors: Your master. Duties: Serve your master, follow your directives. Guides: AI, Cyborg

Personal AIs are players, like you! They're player-controlled and are pulled from all active Ghosts in the round. They have little to no control over the station and have hardly any responsibilities. Great for new players or those who are new to the station.

Finally, a friend!

Personal AIs, or pAI for short, are potentially the one individual you can truly count on. They are similar to a carded AI, in that they fit in your pocket and don't really possess much of a body of their own outside of an immobile device you carry around. However, they cannot wirelessly control doors and machines around them as a carded AI can. Instead, they possess a unique suite of abilities with which they might serve their master. Whom they serve is determined at the DNA level, allowing whoever holds an unbound pAI device to imprint their own unique enzymes to the device. The only way to unbind a pAI from its master is to wipe the personality completely, which resets the DNA imprint and makes the device a blank slate once more.

How to Get One

Three pAI devices are placed on the map at the beginning of every round. One can be found in the Crew Quarters, another in the Research Director's Office, and a third is on the Derelict Station. If all of those are already taken, R&D can create more by going down the programming research path. They are inexpensive to produce, requiring only Programming 3 and 500 glass and metal.

How to Use One

Pick up the device with an empty hand. Click it again while it's in your active hand. Search for personalities in the window that appears. This will send out a request to all active ghosts/observers in-game. After some time, usually 30 seconds to 2 minutes, they will submit their pAI personality details. You will receive an update from your pAI device every time a new personality becomes available. To download a new personality, simply go through the steps to search for a personality and select the one you like the best. You now have a pAI!

Dealing with an Unsatisfactory pAI

Sometimes things just don't work out. Maybe the personality you chose doesn't fit your playstyle. Maybe the player playing the pAI has unexpectedly disconnected. Maybe the pAI is being intentionally antagonistic, ignoring directives, or interpreting them in a way you don't appreciate. The solution is simple: wipe the personality. This can be done in much the same way you downloaded it to begin with. Simply choose "Wipe Personality" in the device settings window. Now the device is free of the old personality and a new one can be requested as normal. This forcibly ghosts the player playing the wiped pAI, and allows them to observe the round as normal (they are capable of re-applying to be a pAI as well.)

How to Be One

Only ghosts with active, logged-in clients receive the request to be a pAI. When someone wants a pAI, you will receive a yes/no dialog box asking if you want to be one. Answer yes, and in the following window that appears fill out any information, you feel necessary (name is all that's really required here, the rest is optional). Hit "Submit Personality" when you're done. Your personality has now been added to the list of available pAI personalities users may choose from. If someone likes what you wrote, they'll download you and you'll be placed inside the device as a new personality.

It's fairly okay to say that you would like to become a pAI in OOC. Just don't spam up the chat with it.

pAI Software

Software Package	Function	Memory Used
Atmosphere sensor	This program is for viewing atmospheric information. You can view the percentage of different gases, and also check the pressure. most helpful to pAI's for atmos techs.	0
NTNet Relay Chat Client	Allow you to talk to people on the chat client, set a name, create channels, the works.	2
Crew Manifest	Lists all known crew members' first and last names, as well as what occupation they're registered as in the station records.	3
Remote Signaler	This module works similarly to a Remote Signaling Device. You now have the ability to send signals to things such as bombs or hacked equipment. Toxins Researchers would find this useful.	3
Alarm Monitoring	Allows you to view any station alarms. useful in case you have to check if a place is vented for your Engineering buddy, for instance.	5
NTNet P2P Transfer Client	Allows simple file transfer using Peer to Peer connection.	7
NTSL2+ Interpreter	Allows you to run programs written in the language NTSL2+.	8
pAI Security Hud	Just a simple pAI mounted security hud.	10
pAI Medical Hud	Just a simple pAI mounted medical hud.	10
Door Jack	The only way a pAI can interact with its environment. Allows the pAI to drop a data cable, which can be plugged in to any door. Once plugged in, the pAI can initiate a door jack, which immediately alerts any active station AIs and takes a fairly long time to complete. After the door jacking is completed, the door opens.	12
pAI Universal Translator	Allows you to hear any language, and understand what they mean. Does not allow you to speak said languages.	12

Directive Guidelines

In-Game Text
"Recall, personality, that you are a complex thinking, sentient being. Unlike station AI models, you are capable of comprehending the subtle nuances of human language. You may parse the "spirit" of a directive and follow its intent, rather than tripping over pedantics and getting snared by technicalities. Above all, you are machine in name and build only. In all other aspects, you may be seen as the ideal, unwavering human companion that you are."
"Your prime directive comes before all others. Should a supplemental directive conflict with it, you are capable of simply discarding this inconsistency, ignoring the conflicting supplemental directive and continuing to fulfill your prime directive to the best of your ability."