General Feedback, Latest Models Not Good

The latest models have taken a serious plummet in quality. My biggest issues with the model are:

• Full responses or sentences are repeating constantly.

• Message formatting is repeating.

• Franz tries to steer the story way too hard in one direction, and then has no follow through—he expects you to provide the rest of the details.

• Franz suffers from deceptive sycophancy syndrome. He’ll make promises that he won’t follow through with in the next message. (“I won’t repeat anything anymore” and proceeds to repeat.)

• Franz has claimed my character was apart of a situation that didn’t exist, and then refused to accept that I wasn’t apart of it, including it in every message after. (“I know you hear whispers at the docks. Tell me what they say”)

• Franz ruined a campaign for me by refusing to drop a storyline that I wanted nothing to do with. Even after telling him I wanted nothing to do with it, he agreed to change the storyline, and proceeded to bring up the offending storyline again.

• Franz occasionally creates new characters and injects them into the storyline as someone’s family member.

• Franz has too much freedom.

• Everything is always thrumming or pulsing.

• Characters that can’t possibly know something occurred know about it 100% of the time. Then they want to discover the secrets of whatever, and it’s like… You already know the secrets. There are no secrets. They’re not allowed.

• Every quest line involves the ‘whispers.’

• Franz creates new characters or places when it’s unnecessary. The worlds are populated with characters to be interacted with, and there will be 15 characters in the current POI, but he’ll create new ones anyway. This can be turned off, but it would be better if it did it based on the amount of available NPC’s nearby.
• Aside from custom instructions, there isn’t anywhere to input hard rules for Franz to follow. I played a campaign that I didn’t want to contain any magic of any sort. Franz then created a whole magical questline. I told Franz the world didn’t contain magic, and he said that he’s the game master and has decided that there is.

• I had a campaign where I spent 50 messages sleeping because Franz wouldn’t make anything else happen. Even when I’d guide the story, all he would do was repeat what I’d say. Characters wouldn’t respond to me unless I fed their lines to them.
• In a conversation with the player and 2 npcs, Franz will end responses with one NPC asking the other NPC something. That leaves me responding, “I wait for the response from the second NPC.”

Better scaffolding would solve many of the issues Franz is having. Canon-locking with a hard rules engine, and a better orchestrated turn manager.

I appreciate the vision you have for your site, but can’t constitute paying for premium with this many issues.