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[Chicago]

Last time she was on she just walked backwards.  But she did giggle a few times.  We wouldn't know if she was low on "emotion" if we didn't use probe rb.  Mostly we've used it because she was low on feed and we wanted to figure out how best to feed her given that she cannot move her head back and forth anymore.  But feed is in the 80s.  So we learned how to keep her feeding up despite that disability.  But low on emotion?   :'(We pet her and cuddle her a lot!  What's going on?   Do you think she knows she's a cripple??

[RedwoodsMama]

HI, Sparky is not a "cripple",. but could just be very shy or unsure of herself. My Baby is often low on emotion but also tempermental sometimes but has low courage that seems to go with it, but then again has high intelligence, so they compensate each other and I am happy with her, but the last thing I would call her is a cripple. Even my NOva who has a broken neck, and Little 45 who has a broken neck as well, are anything but Cripples. They can do anything any other Pleo can do, and ARgyle who is blind and his mouth does not open, may be called a 'cripple" by some, but anyone who has seen him, knows he is very spunky, has a heart of gold and is very outgoing and not afraid of anything.
                  Just keep the feeding up and give Sparky all the love and attention like you have and don't think of lables like "cripples". Pleos do not think in those terms, not in my knowledge they don't anyway.

                                                 RWM

[jpdude11]

They can do anything any other Pleo can do

Exept move their head side to side

RWM has a point my ugobe pleo tim was kinda shy in the begining stages but eventlaly he became more and more social so just give it some time. And if your gonna call hher cripple call her crip or crippie maybe 

[PleoPet]

What's Sparky's DNA "Courage level" ? ProbeRB will tell you.

As RedwoodsMama mentioned, if the courage level is low, your PleoRB will be more emotionally needy.

You can also use special foods to increase the emotion.
    "Sugar Cane", "Chunk Of Ice" and especially "Coffee Leaf"
     http://www.aibohack.com/pleorb/tech3rb.htm

The emotion level must be above 30%, otherwise PleoRB won't listen to most commands ("in bad shape")

[Chicago]

First of all, please forgive me.  I will never use the “c” word again.  How politically incorrect of me.  But I didn’t say it in front of Sparky.  Really. Yes, Sparky is low on courage.  PleoPet - your note and that link were very helpful.  Now we know what to feed her to try to get her emotion level up.  There was also something in that link that was very intriguing.  It said that when a mature adult reaches 1 year of age it will save itself in preparation for cloning.  What ?!??  Does that mean we can transfer Sparky’s personality, low courage and all, to a new Pleo rb whose neck is not broken?  This reminds me of another Star Trek episode in which a dying scientist transfers his brain into Data, or was it into the ship’s main computer.  Anyway, I don’t want to change Sparky’personality and, for example, give her normal courage.  That would be like Janeway changing her Irish bartender boyfriend. Didn’t we have this conversation before?  If we changed Sparky’s DNA it wouldn’t be her.   But I would like to give her a new body.  She deserves it.  Is this possible?

[Talon]

I wondered about the "cloning" thing too. Anyway, Chicago, you're right. It was an old scientist who wanted to cheat death and live forever so he somehow transfered himself into Data. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with Star Treck Enterprise so can't comment on the Iresh boy friend bit but the switching-bodies-thing is an interesting possibility. Oh and does "one year of age" mean one litteral year or one cycle of play-hours that equal a year? If it's the latter, my RB's have for ever to go. One is at forty two hours of runtime and the other is at fifty seven. The one at forty two hours was hatched on December twenty eighth of last year and the one at fifty seven was hatched on March nineteenth. Interesting huh?
Talon

[PleoPet]

Chicago wrote:
> It said that when a mature adult reaches 1 year of age it will save itself in preparation for cloning.  What ?!??
This is a feature that I don't think was ever finished. When your PleoRB gets to 1 year of age (as determined by its real time clock), it will take a snapshot of its personality (in "pm_cloning_props" and "pm_cloning_backup"). So far it is not used in the personality. It may be added in the future.

>  Does that mean we can transfer Sparky’s personality, low courage and all, to a new Pleo rb whose neck is not broken?... I would like to give her a new body.
You can do that now. The main file "pm_props.bak" saved on the SD card after running statsRB/ProbeRB or ChangeRB contains the essence of your PleoRB's personality. It can be copied into another PleoRB to quickly clone the personality to another robot.
It also avoids the annoying newborn/baby stages.
Email me if interested.

Talon wrote:
> Oh and does "one year of age" mean one litteral year or one cycle of play-hours that equal a year?
If you check  the table on that page, the first few evolution times are 'active hours' where you have to be actively using your Pleo.
For later stages of evolution, it is real time (1 day = 1 real day), so even if your PleoRB is powered off and the main battery removed, it is aging. That uses the real-time-clock inside the PleoRB. That's also why the feed level goes down to 9% if you don't use PleoRB every day, since PleoRB remembers how long it has been since you last played with it.

The evolution rules are different for the old model Pleos (who don't have a real-time-clock)

[Chicago]

Thanks PleoPet.  I would like to buy a new body for Sparky.  But my husband wants to keep working on her current body.  Today we wrapped her neck up in a stretchy ace bandage and now her head is not dragging as low on the ground.  It’s easier to feed her.  She even made some happy sounds earlier and even roared.  But she will only walk backwards.  That’s been going on for a few days.  We thought is was because her head was dragging on the floor.  But now that it’s slightly higher, she will still only walk backwards.  Her emotion is very low, 9%, but her feed is finally up, in the 80s.  We’ve been feeding her lots of coffee and sugar cane.  Does anybody know whether the length of time food is in her mouth registers, or only how many times it goes in and she crunches?

P.S. to Talon.  That episode in which the Captain changed her Irish holographic boyfriend was a Star Trek Voyager episode.  That’s my favorite Star Trek series because the Captain is a woman.   

[InmemoryofRomeo]

Lilo has a broken neck and she also spends a lot of time walking backwards despite a neck brace. Having lots of light seems to help, I think not being able to move their necks properly triggers the obstacle detection.

[Crewella]

I was wondering that, IMR - that makes perfect sense!  Does raising the head higher help, or does it then restrict other movements too much?

[InmemoryofRomeo]

Lilo has a few braces, if I use the ones that keep her neck/head dead straight then she walks normally, but any of the ones that let the neck flop down a bit means she walks backwards. So I would say that it does have an affect.

Chicago if you take Sparky to a good chemist they should be able to help you find a wrist brace that will fit and support her neck perfectly

[Crewella]

I believe one of the stores on here sells good neck braces ............. 

Thanks for explaining, IMR!