Getting Norns to eat in C2
Elizabeth Strong
game looks good, but it's no fun playing, now. I finally imported a Norn
from C1, who I knew was a good eater, and she still is. In fact, she coaxed
another C2 Norn to eat, and it seemed to work!
Also, a female was pregnant for 54? What did that represent? She got
pregnant as an adolescent and then died as a senior!
I would like to know how other players have solved these problems.
Thanks, Betty
NornGarden
stopped being fun. You spend a lot of time training, them, teaching them,
etc.. And if you can pamper them to live as long as two and a half hours, you
are rewarded with their early aging and death. :(
Vicki
AntiNorn
I disagree. C2 is much more fun and challenging then C1 ever could
have hoped for..
Try this: For the first few generations, raise only one Norns at a
time, import another Norns only when breeding. Don't take a Norn
exploring until they are at least a youth. Younger Nonrs will stress
out and/or get sick more easily when leaving the incubator area.
Reinforced teaching is a necessity. Don't overly reward your Norn,
and don't tickle them just to hear the giggle. Slap them around if
you need to, but not too much as slaps can result in injury.
A note: after talking with a number of C2 users both in email and
Chat, I've noticed that quite a few people have become dependant on
using Cobs to "raise" thier Norns, and this is resulting in alot of
premature deaths in C2. If you find C2 to be impossible to deal with,
I suggest you go back to C1 for a few hours and raise hatchery Norns
without the use of ANY Cobs, then go back to C2 and see if you learned
anything.
Tortured Norns: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2495/
Chris Double
"When young, Norns may learn what the words are before their meaning. This
does not necessarily mean your Norn will never understand that word, it
might just mean that the genetic instinct has not been processed yet."
So if your young norns don't 'eat' when you tell then too it could be
because they know the word but not what it means. The 'eat' instinct has not
been processed. Given the norn some time - try letting it sleep. In C1 the
instincts got processed when the norn slept.
Chris.
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NornGarden
even to all the super norns from C1.
This game is far more challanging, it will take a bit of getting used to. I'm
going to keep trying!! :) And I plan to follow the advice you just gave.
Thank you!!
Vicki
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NornGarden
knew the word, they knew what it meant.
Vicki
Lis Morris
Chris Double wrote in message <6t08t9$nl1$1...@newsource.ihug.co.nz>...
I thought instincts reinforced good ideas, rather than teaching them the
meaning of the actions they do. For instance, activate 1 when hungry --> 127
rewards, etc. Does it teach them the meaning of words too?
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prone to use "push" for eat, even when they've never been told to "push"
food, fruit, etc. This seems to indicate that there is a tie-in between
the two verbs and the resulting action/reward sequence. It does seem
that the nornlings start using "eat" for eating after they age a bit,
then revert to "push" as senility begins setting in.
Jo
Chris Double wrote:
>
> Lis Morris wrote in message <#dr3crl29GA.352@upnetnews03>...
> >
> >I thought instincts reinforced good ideas, rather than teaching them the
> >meaning of the actions they do. For instance, activate 1 when hungry -->
> 127
> >rewards, etc. Does it teach them the meaning of words too?
>
> In C1 you'll see instincts like 'If Verb is push and I push then reward
> +255'. There is an instinct like this for all the verbs. This sets up the
> initial knowledge for the norn to understand what to do when you type the
> verb. This is how I made the 'eat' norns at my web site. I created an
> instinct for one of the unassigned verb slots to say 'If verb is verb12 and
> I push then reward +255'. When they were taught using a modified speech cob
> that verb12 was 'eat' they would 'push' whenever 'eat' was said.
>
> If the instincts aren't processed or these instincts are deleted then the
> norn hears your words (the verb lobe fires) but it performs whatever action
> it wants to because no reward path is set up. It's painful to delete these
> instincts and try to teach a norn...
>
> From the statement in the manual I'd guess the same structure works in C2 -
> although in C1 the instincts for the norns were processed before they
> hatched at least once so they always understood your verbs. Maybe in C2 they
> aren't processed until a little later.
Pinstar1
I have a technique called "bad norn, good norn"
Polinesia: what if you are doing it to an ettin or a grendal?<brawk>
Shut up poliensia... anyway, here is what you do, when the norn's highest drive
is food <when the carrot appears next to their heart on the status bar> get
them to look at some food and say"eat food" if they do anything other than
"come food", "get food" or "eat food" slap them, they should walk to the food,
once at the food, say it again, if it doesn't "eat food" slap it, continue to
repeat that, until the norn eats then say "yes" about 4 or 5 times, you may be
temped to scritch, but "yes" seems to work better. Then the creature SHOULD eat
on its own when it's hungry
Pinstar- God of "norns on the newsgroup"
Author of interactive stories
Polinesia: what weighs 3000 pounds and<brawk> has the collective IQ of 80?
Brawk: A football team!
Apollo: someone on Jerry Springer?
Cappie:all norns:Remember to speak out!
Lis Morris
Chris Double wrote in message <6t0kvq$ds5$1...@newsource.ihug.co.nz>...
>Lis Morris wrote in message <#dr3crl29GA.352@upnetnews03>...
>>
>>I thought instincts reinforced good ideas, rather than teaching them the
>>meaning of the actions they do. For instance, activate 1 when hungry -->
>127
>>rewards, etc. Does it teach them the meaning of words too?
>
>
>In C1 you'll see instincts like 'If Verb is push and I push then reward
>+255'. There is an instinct like this for all the verbs. This sets up the
>initial knowledge for the norn to understand what to do when you type the
>verb. This is how I made the 'eat' norns at my web site. I created an
>instinct for one of the unassigned verb slots to say 'If verb is verb12 and
>I push then reward +255'. When they were taught using a modified speech cob
>that verb12 was 'eat' they would 'push' whenever 'eat' was said.
>
>If the instincts aren't processed or these instincts are deleted then the
>norn hears your words (the verb lobe fires) but it performs whatever action
>it wants to because no reward path is set up. It's painful to delete these
>instincts and try to teach a norn...
>
>From the statement in the manual I'd guess the same structure works in C2 -
>although in C1 the instincts for the norns were processed before they
>hatched at least once so they always understood your verbs. Maybe in C2
they
>aren't processed until a little later.
>
>Chris.
Ooh, how interesting! Thanks for that... time to go and check the genkit
again <g>
catgut
<b-st...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I've had my first three Norns die from hunger. I've tried everything! The
>game looks good, but it's no fun playing, now. I finally imported a Norn
>from C1, who I knew was a good eater, and she still is. In fact, she coaxed
>another C2 Norn to eat, and it seemed to work!
>Also, a female was pregnant for 54? What did that represent? She got
>pregnant as an adolescent and then died as a senior!
>I would like to know how other players have solved these problems.
>Thanks, Betty
After my first C2 norn died of hunger, and my second was still-hatched
(fell out of the incubator with stars around his head and died 3 mins
later). How amusing... I started to become impatient.
I decided to try a Darwinian experiment, and hatched the remaining 4
eggs all at once, and put the game in the background. A couple of
them seemed to learn to eat on their own, and one didn't. Too bad for
him, but he did manage to impregnate both females before kicking off.
I snatched up the eggs as they were laid (after reading that this will
put them on ice until I want them to hatch) and moved them up top.
All four ended up dying by adolescence, and I broke out the emergency
supply of 4 more eggs. Hatched them too and repeated experiment.
As it turns out, I now have a full graveyard, three eggs ready to be
hatched (sex unknown), and Bob, a second generation norn who likes to
eat.
I'll continue the experiment tonight. I'm tryign to see if they can
learn to eat without being told to. You think dying and suffering
from hunger pangs would teach them something, but I have my doubts.
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Chris Double
>
>I thought instincts reinforced good ideas, rather than teaching them the
>meaning of the actions they do. For instance, activate 1 when hungry -->
127
>rewards, etc. Does it teach them the meaning of words too?
In C1 you'll see instincts like 'If Verb is push and I push then reward
+255'. There is an instinct like this for all the verbs. This sets up the
initial knowledge for the norn to understand what to do when you type the
verb. This is how I made the 'eat' norns at my web site. I created an
instinct for one of the unassigned verb slots to say 'If verb is verb12 and
I push then reward +255'. When they were taught using a modified speech cob
that verb12 was 'eat' they would 'push' whenever 'eat' was said.
If the instincts aren't processed or these instincts are deleted then the
norn hears your words (the verb lobe fires) but it performs whatever action
it wants to because no reward path is set up. It's painful to delete these
instincts and try to teach a norn...
From the statement in the manual I'd guess the same structure works in C2 -
although in C1 the instincts for the norns were processed before they
hatched at least once so they always understood your verbs. Maybe in C2 they
aren't processed until a little later.
Chris.
Elizabeth Strong
thought C2 Norns were supposed to be more intelligent, or at least have
better understanding. I had coaxed a Norn to explore, and he was scared to
death! When I tried to coax him back to the the Incubator room, he really
freaked out! I spanked a few times to try to convince him, to no avail. So I
gave up and left him there. The next time I started up the game, and went to
that Norn, amazingly he had changed completely. He followed the Hand with no
problem, and even seemed to be cheerful! Go figure.
Thanks, Betty
Chris Double wrote in message <6t08t9$nl1$1...@newsource.ihug.co.nz>...
>One thing I noticed in the manual was the following:
>
>"When young, Norns may learn what the words are before their meaning. This
>does not necessarily mean your Norn will never understand that word, it
>might just mean that the genetic instinct has not been processed yet."
>
>So if your young norns don't 'eat' when you tell then too it could be
>because they know the word but not what it means. The 'eat' instinct has
not
>been processed. Given the norn some time - try letting it sleep. In C1 the
>instincts got processed when the norn slept.
>