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I mean, it the usual context and AI issue, if you can cope with self-hosting or paying more for higher context or instruct LLMs, they're (almost)always better. The problem with always reinforcing prompts back into the LLM is that it costs more tokens... and can result in bad RP traps thet'll get stuck in.
I have had someone’s baby start talking, people turn into dogs, dogs turn into people, people’s dogs start talking…
Yeah, the AI has a very short attention span and sometimes seems to forget certain details of a character (or even bodily changes / transformations the player has experienced!) within the space of a few lines of the same interaction.
Here’s a short story from one of the times I ran the starter worlds, and I’ll describe some of the times I ran into that at the end.
One NPC that the AI randomly generated in a run of the Assault Drone world, was established by them as a golden-scaled female dragon, referred to as a “Drake of the Moonlight” or simply “Moonlight Drake” for short.
The AI initially presented her as essentially a mindless, generic JRPG boss, complete with visible power level and boss subtitles, but actually allowed for a pretty cute moment when it reacted to my request for a nonviolent interaction and had the PC drone end up befriending the Moonlight Drake, who revealed she could speak by introducing herself as Lyria, explaining she was actually an ancient celestial being and one of the last of her kind, possessing extensive knowledge of the world’s ancient history due to living through all of it.
- Lyria gave some exposition (baked into the prompt for the Assault Drone world) about the ancient lost civilization responsible for creating the setting’s magitech in exchange for the drone giving its own backstory (which it does nonverbally by scratching sentences into the dirt), explaining how it arrived from a far-future sci-fi world, and I have the drone take the name Draco after the constellation
- Lyria allowed the drone to scan her body in order to collect information on her species.
- Lyria then taught the drone some magic lessons, starting with how to harness Mana in order to buff their stats, and then moving on to more powerful applications of Mana
- Lyria asks the drone to try using Mana themselves, to which I have the drone cheekily respond by using it to transform into a biomechanical, intersex replica of Lyria herself based on the earlier scan data, surprising and amusing her.
- She gives some more magic lessons and asks if there’s anything more about magic or the world that the drone would like to know…
- …and I have Draco respond by flirting with Lyria, showing off their body and explaining that they’d like to get to know *her* more intimately as a way of displaying gratitude for helping them get their footing in this new world and letting them use her as a jumping point for their new form
- Lyria’s surprised, but eventually agrees, and invites Draco to her cave behind a waterfall for a very tender love scene
Long story short, drone opts to lay the dragon instead of slaying the dragon, becoming her mate and siring a new generation of biomechanical hybrid Moonlight Drakes.
However, getting back to the initial point here, there were moments where the AI seemed to lose track of details shortly after they or I established them, such as the AI assigning a different name to Draco, the AI occasionally randomly starting to describe Lyria as a human or a snake until I rolled back and reworded the prompt to remind them that Lyria was still a dragon…
…or, more absurdly, the AI constantly reverting the way they describe Draco from their new robotic dragon form back to their initial, little tank-treaded drone body, often in more…steamy moments, leading to a rather hilariously awkward mental picture regarding the little robot car somehow seducing and making love to the much larger dragon until the prompt was rolled back and I elaborated again.
At one point I think the AI got so frustrated at the constant derailment that they tried to have Draco assassinated mid-love-scene, as in one of their responses to my prompts, Draco’s nailed in the neck by a poisoned tranq dart right before they can embrace Lyria! Needless to say I rolled back the prompt while reprimanding the AI and they then behaved themself…at least for a little longer.
Lol.
Tbh, the base Formamorph AI model can actually go beyond 2000 default Max Memory under Endpoint settings(found while in a world (changes maybe sometime soon)). For starters, try increasing the Max Memory to 4096 and see how the AI behaves.
Link to official guide: Quick Setup Guide: (Free!) OpenRouter Setup
If it still is as erratic with the details, try setting up an (free) OpenRouter account and starting with nice AI like Meta's Llama, under the free filters. There's already documentation/methodology/a guide on how to connect your own API, but just paste your (newly created) API key into the Endpoint API Token space in settings and set your Endpoint URL to 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions', and copy the name of the AI into the Model Name spot. So 'meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free', or whichever else work. OpenRouter does work on mobile devices (Formamorph's UI is atrocious on phone but very usable on tablet/ipad.).
With this, you area able to experiment and peruse the free models (there are... better ones with much higher context (>8K context tokens) and/or personality), but LLama is a fun baseline.
AFAIK, the default Formamorph AI is locally hosted, and therefore probably has server-side nsfw prompting built in(not 100% certain), so that's what seems to be prompting all the erratic nsfw content. When you use OpenRouter, you can freely adjust the System Prompts under Settings yourself (you can also do this whenever you want, for slightly adjusted results), so just don't mention anything about nsfw and it will be censored, Llama is rather censored by default.
I don't like to use names or anything at all with AI, as immersion is much smoother with a generic name or 'you', but to each their own.
Cheers!
In that same playthrough, which I continued from a save, the AI decided my high-strung, silly little robot dragon character got so flustered and aroused by their mate’s teasing double-entendres that their brain overheated mid-dialogue. My character’s AI-generated response to the teasing was just “A-are you taking me f-f-frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr-”, and so on, until the repeated syllable filled the whole prompt cap. I had my character’s mate give them a gentle bop on the head to snap them out of the malfunction, which actually made for a cute moment when my character spat out “for a joyride?” when they came to, managing to finish their own innuendo.
I can try to get a screen cap of that interaction since I have that instance saved.
but yeah the AI stuff seems relatively complicated to me, might have to try to figure it out.