Acceptable & Desirable - storytron/swat GitHub Wiki

Before we examine the specifics of how Acceptable, Desirable, and the Sentence Wordsockets are configured for the FATE_what_going_to_do option of the FATE role for once_upon_a_time let us look at a more generic example of a verb that has several roles and each role has several options.

A_slaps_B

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When you initially create a new role option its Acceptable value is set to True and its Desirable value is set to 0.0.

The Acceptable's True value tells the engine that this option will always be available to the actor playing this role (it is always true, there is no calculation involved that could remove it from consideration). The Desirable value of 0.0 is a bounded number and it states that the actor does not strongly feel one way or another about choosing this option. Bounded numbers can have a minimum value of -1.0 and a maximum value of 1.0 so a value of 0.0 is exactly between the minimum and maximum values, middle of the road (to learn more about bounded numbers see the Bounded Number page in the SWAT wiki).

What an actor chooses to do depends on their personality and their moods (to learn more about both see the Personality Model and Moods pages in the SWAT wiki).

In this hypothetical verb > role > role option example one actor, for whatever reason, slaps another actor.

The verb A_slap_B has three roles associated with it and each role has three role options.

Verb	Roles	Role Options
A_slaps_B	Did Slapping	A_slap_again | A_run_away | A_apologize
A_slaps_B	Was Slapped	B_slap_back | B_run_away | B_cry
A_slaps_B	Saw Slapped	C_yell_at_A | C_comfort_B | C_slap_A

Visually the verb web looks like this.

Let look at each of the roles and its options to explain how AssumeRoleIf, Acceptable, and Desirable affect subsequent storyworld actions and events.

Actor Who Did The Slapping

XYZ

Did Slapping

A_slap_again Acceptable Desirable

A_run_away Acceptable Desirable

A_apologize Acceptable Desirable

Actor Who Was Slapped

XYZ

Was Slapped

B_slap_back Acceptable Desirable

B_run_away Acceptable Desirable

B_cry Acceptable Desirable

Actor Who Saw The Slap

XYZ

Saw Slap

C_yell_at_A Acceptable Desirable

C_comfort_B Acceptable Desirable

C_slap_A Acceptable Desireable

Option Acceptable?

While the FATE role for the verb once_upon_a_time only has one option available to it, FATE_what_going_to_do, we could image a role that offers the actor multiple options to choose.

XYZ

Select the Acceptable tab for the FATE_what_going_to_do option to display the Acceptable script in the script editor.

Option Desirable?

Select the Desirable tab for the FATE_what_going_to_do option to display the Desirable script in the script editor.

Sentence Wordsockets

https://github.com/storytron/gossip/wiki/Verb-Sentences-and-WordSockets#verb-properties