Pattern of Life (PoL)

Pattern of Life (PoL) content is published in the same channels as all scripted content configured in your Master Event List or in the Flowchart view of your Scenario Editor. The player experiences a blend of all contents, but the scenario author creates this content differently, to allow the facilitator to publish it dynamically.

Why use Pattern of Life?

• Efficiency: Automates persona behaviour, reducing manual effort during the exercise

• Realism: Personas behave like real individuals. A good example is if you want to stimulate multiple tweets seconds apart from each other.

• Engagement: Adds depth to the exercise by ensuring that players are receiving content from personas that feel real.

How Pattern of Life Works

Pattern of Life (PoL) is built from Stacks (stax) of content which is arranged into a Deck. Designers can create multiple decks but only one deck can be active at any time.

Stacks can be started from the MEL using an Action inject or "live" during an exercise by the Facilitator.

Generating Pattern of Life Content

1

Navigate to the PoL

Click a deck button - this will create a stack waiting for content.

Click the AI magic icon

2

Use the AI Stack Assistant

The stack assistant expects you to:

• select a Faction

• select a channel

• select if the Faction's beliefs will be positive, negative or mixed.

The style & strength of the content generated depends on:

• the Faction voice which is described in the Faction Description field

• the exercise context given in the Exercise setup

3

Generate a Preview and then Generate Stack

Use the "Get preview" button to see a sample of content the AI will generate. If you like it, click Generate Stack. If you don't like the sample, change the text in the Point of view field or the Faction voice or the description in the Exercise Setup.

Mixing Channels in a Stack

It is possible to mix social channels in the same Stack but we don't recommend it. Why? Because when you're running an exercise it's easy to forget that the content is published across multiple channels and you made watch the stack timer expire only to wonder where your content has been published!

Email stacks

Email can't be combined with other channels in the same Stack. This is because email isn't a feed in the way that social media is.