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INTERNATIONAL GAME SYSTEMS

Generative NPC Cost, Latency, Quotas, and Deterministic Fallbacks

A high-level architecture that protects conversation quality and operating budgets without exposing controller identity, manipulating players, or giving a language model authority over world state.

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ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Generative NPCs can create unbounded cost and latency if every event triggers inference. Bounded queues, caching, quotas, authored fallbacks, and server validation keep the feature reliable and financially sustainable.

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Three key points

  1. No model calls are required for empty rooms or routine off-screen simulation.
  2. Consequential actions are validated by deterministic services.
  3. Budget exhaustion degrades gracefully to authored behavior rather than broken or deceptive output.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Use event-driven admission

Inference is reserved for direct player interaction or meaningful state changes in populated scenes. Routine movement, schedules, ambient animation, and off-screen simulation remain deterministic.

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Combine rapid events

A short buffering window can combine bursts of room activity into one coherent request. The system preserves public message order and never drops a safety-critical or contract-relevant event silently.

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Budget by cost and consequence

Token, time, concurrency, and spending limits operate at scene, character, account, and service levels. Limits are not sold as a pay-to-win advantage and do not discriminate by region or language.

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Graceful fallback is authored

When the model is unavailable, the NPC uses cached summaries, authored acknowledgements, deterministic routines, or a transparent pause. It does not invent world facts to hide a failure.

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Keep authority outside the model

The model cannot move assets, unlock doors, change missions, alter reputation, transfer currency, issue sanctions, or write protected memory directly. Every proposal passes schema, permission, and game-state validation.

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Do not hide AI identity to smooth latency

Interface consistency can reduce confusion, but it cannot be used to make players believe an AI is human. Controller disclosure, memory scope, and service status remain available.

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Limitations, game links, and review context

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Known limitations and gaps

  • These pages are authored design syntheses, not independent validation of every claim in the supplied reports.
  • No country, culture, language, religion, diagnosis, disability, migration status, income level, or region is assigned a hidden competence, honesty, criminality, loyalty, or risk modifier.
  • The public edition omits operational intrusion, evasion, targeting, coercion, weapons, exploit, and real-person profiling instructions.
  • Regional, economic, accessibility, clinical, lived-experience, legal, privacy, and consumer-protection review remain open human gates.
  • RogueIntelligence.org remains authoritative for live game state; these pages describe design principles and correction boundaries.
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RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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