New Scientist reports on a study of which personality types do best in real-time strategy games — and neurotic players do better than aggressive players.
[Austrian researchers] created aggressive, defensive, normal and neurotic versions of the AI software in the war strategy game Age of Mythology, drawing on “the big five” emotional dimensions to personality recognised by psychologists.
The bots are able to switch between states of pleasure, pain, clarity, and confusion in response to events. The strength of particular emotional changes is related to the overall personality.
The neurotic bot was more likely than the others to distort hard facts about resources - like the amount of timber around - and flip between extremes of behaviour. And it was better than the rest.
The aggressive and neurotic bots consistently won; but the neurotic bot did it 25% faster.
This begs the question — why aren’t I better at RTS games?
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