'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy

An anonymous reader writes "Austrian researchers experimenting with adding emotion to game AI say that 'neurotic' software is best at RTS. They developed aggressive, defensive, neutral and neurotic bots to play Age of Mythology, based on psychological models of emotion. Neurotic bots beat the standard game AI every time and faster than the other personalities."

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Tautologous

[Anonymous Coward]

What, did they expect the lazy or apathetic bots to excel?

Being skilled at any endeavour requires "neurosis".

Re:Tautologous

[Wyrd01]

So true. I have to piss off my toaster before it will toast my bagel Just be thankful you didn't get the model of toaster I bought.

This may finally explain

[Anonymous Coward]

why women always get their way. Opponents simply throw up their hands in despair and surrender.

*ponders*

[KGIII]

Neurotic bots beat the standard game AI every time and faster than the other personalities."

Well, yeah? They were neurotic and couldn't put the game down and take a break or anything until it was done. Well there was that one kid who kept getting up to go straighten out every last chair in the room but he was a statistical anomaly so wasn't included in the results.

Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2!

[VShael]

Also known (though it takes more than 4 turns to do it) as "U.S. Foreign Policy"

Didn't I Just Blow Your Mind?

[Doc Ruby]

I don't know karate, but I do know CAAA- RAAAY-ZEEEE!

Out of the blue Obligatory

[hellfire]

"It's a machine, CmdrTaco. It isn't Neurotic. It doesn't get pissed off, it doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes... IT JUST PWNS j00r A$$!!!"

Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2!

[imgod2u]

Zerg-rushing has been in use long before you picked up the mouse and keyboards son.

In other news...

[OglinTatas]

"Twitchy psychopath" works best in FPS, and Tourette syndrome seems to dominate Barrens chat in WoW

Re:crazy leaders?

[hellfire]

As opposed to todays political leaders who are all striking examples of stable minds?

I read this and the phrase "stable minds" led me in a straight line to "horse's ass."

I leave you, the reader, to see the pun-ic significance.

Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2!

[SlowMovingTarget]

In my day, single clicking every unit and inching them forward one at a time WAS a tank rush. And another thing... super bats were the first "mobs," why I can remember one Wumpus hunt...

It was Dune 2, and not Wing Commander, that convinced me to by a Sound Blaster. Granted, Wing Commander made more use of it.

You're right of course, there was no rushing in Dune 2. But remember setting up a semi-circle of vehicles and baiting the bad guys in? Or laying out concrete all the way to the doorstep of your opponent, building a couple of turrets, then stationing a handful of rocket launchers there? Or running down those three pixels worth of infantry with the harvesters to make little splats in the sand... Good times. Then this WarCraft thing came along and everybody was talking about this new genre...

...and my "whatever-trickle" is none of your business.

Re:Result is specific to AoM?

[Architect_sasyr]

Bah to hell with your consequences! CHARGE!

Reminds me of the 40k Orc Codex: "We never lose... If we wins we win, if we dies we're dead so it don't count as beat and if we runz away we can come back to fight anuvva day" (Paraphrased of course - this is /. so no doubt someone will correct me)