Poll #37: 03/28/03 - 05/08/03



What Do You Do With the Extra CPU?
What are you as an AI developer doing with all the extra CPU cycles on the new machines that you weren't doing before?
[153 votes total]

Doing the same things as before, but now it's for 20 enemies instead of 5. (15) 10%
I'm making each enemy "consider" more options before choosing a course of action. (21) 14%
My AI is considering the consequences of what it does rather than just straightforward action. (34) 22%
I'm using it to play with learning. (21) 14%
I think the graphics guys are doing more animations or something. (20) 13%
There's extra CPU?!? (31) 20%
Beats me...my AI guy never tells me anything. (11) 7%



Steve's Comments: Interesting. At the 2003 GDC far and away the largest majority of developers said they had tons of spare CPU, and these results more or less bear that out. I probably could have done a better job offering up choices though; in retrospect it wasn't very clear what "considering consequences" actually meant, and I should have added something about diplomacy in there. I'll keep that in mind next time.