'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy 186
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."
Tautologous (Score:0, Funny)
Being skilled at any endeavour requires "neurosis".
This may finally explain (Score:5, Funny)
*ponders* (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tautologous (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't I Just Blow Your Mind? (Score:5, Funny)
Out of the blue Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2! (Score:3, Funny)
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:crazy leaders? (Score:3, Funny)
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! (Score:3, Funny)
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? (Score:3, Funny)
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