Zois text first

Zois don't wait to be texted. Friends check in, family says hello, a partner sends something sweet, and sometimes a rival teases you a little. Code decides who texts and when, from what is really going on, and the AI only writes the words.

What decides it#

• Who: friends, best friends, family and partners of your Zoi, now and then a rival, and the odd wrong number.
• Partners and best friends text first the most, family a little more than friends, and someone close who has been quiet for a while is likelier to reach out.
• Why: something true, like news they want to pass on, a call of theirs you missed or a silence that has gone on a while. Never a made-up outing.
• When: with a gap between first texts, at most one every 20 minutes. Late at night only someone close who is still up, now and then. Sleeping Zois never text.
• Invitations are spaced out: after a Zoi asks someone out, no Zoi asks again for 8 game hours, and the same Zoi not for 2 game days.
• Never someone too young for a phone, or someone with a text from them still waiting.

Your controls#

Settings > Autonomy:

• Zois can text you first: on or off.
• How often: Rarely, Sometimes or Often.
• Zois can call you, also Rarely, Sometimes or Often: they may ring the Android app on their own, between 7 in the morning and 11 at night.
• Your Zoi goes to plans: when it's time for a plan, your Zoi heads there on their own.
• Lasting changes and Danger: proposals, weddings, break-ups, divorces and babies, and moves that can hurt or kill a Zoi. Both stay off until you turn them on, in each save on its own.

News and gossip#

Zois pass on what they know, in person and by text, to people they would really tell. A friend who heard something may text your Zoi about it, and your own Zoi may tell you what they saw. What each Zoi knows is on the Knows tab of their card: see Profiles and photos.