Recently I've had time to start running the AIBOs again (mostly Nicco and Murray).
Murray has evolved to a Youth B2 (Ball-Crazy AIBO) and here are the rest of the stats if anyone's keeping tabs.
Status (since birth)
Experience: 60459 points
Real Time: 74 hr, 32 min, 29 sec
Day Count: 43
Quality Factor = 22.5
Evolution to next stage
Experience: 60459 / 275000 (21%)
Time (sec): 268349 / 648000 (41%)
Day count: 43 / 60
If you go here
http://aibohack.com/2or3/evcompare.htm that explains some of those things like quality time.
Now, I've been running Nicco almost exclusively on Mind 2 and I want to add a few things/reenforce a few things I said above. I almost always run them in the same lighting conditions and the same area. I haven't been taking the red cubes out of the shelving unit lately just because it becomes a hassle. Vader and Murray don't get distracted by them. Nicco on Mind 3 would always detect them as his bone (and almost all red objects as his bone) and almost never played with his ball (on the rare occasion he didn't mistake it as his bone). On Mind 2, Nicco doesn't get distracted by the red cubes as much, he does sometimes after he walks much closer to them, but not from across the room like Nicco M3 does. He also plays equally with the bone and the ball and I have yet to see him make the mistake of finding the ball as his bone (with the facial indications).
Also, he doesn't walk around as frequently on M2 as he does on M3. I'm ok with this because it feels more animal like to me. Even when I've had a real dog, and around friends' dogs, it's not like it would constantly wander around the house or any given area all the time. It would walk here and there, and then just lay for awhile or sit and do whatever. On M2, Nicco does this very much. So you could argue he's just more "lazy" but I find it adds more to the realism. Along with the general tonal sounds (which voice can be turned off on M3, but I still find the personality of M2 better).
I'm not sure if this is a setting or just a difference in the software (I haven't checked it out), but on M2, Nicco will make me touch him before he takes a picture whereas on M3, he would just take one. I'm not sure if this may be related to the blogging stuff that I believe was only added in under M3. Nicco is probably my favorite to run when I don't want to be as distracted by them - i.e. when I'm working, really focused on something, or just kind of want something to be present in the room and give me a few laughs here and there but not actually "impose" itself on me. That's not to say that the 210/111 are imposing (more active?), but I am much more into getting down and playing with them (perhaps because they're still young and growing) than I am content just kind of watching them do their thing, which is what I like about Nicco M2.
Also, I had a lot more issues with Nicco M3 self-docking than Nicco M2. On M3, he would frequently align himself wrong or just end up really confused even after 5 minutes or so of trying - and this was before I had tall my AIBOs stations so close together. I let Nicco self-dock today from a little bit where the white table is in pictures and he managed to walk over and find his dock (the pad being probably about 4-5ft away from where his head was). And even in that "tight" space he aligned himself and got on correctly the first time - in under 2 minutes. I don't want to say that's fair since maybe he just got lucky this time, but on M3, Nicco never docked correctly (though I only gave him about four times of messing up before I decided to stop using that feature). The only reason it happened today was because I noticed Nicco seemed to do so well in spotting it that I decided to see if he would make it without hitting Murray. I almost recorded it because I was so impressed, but didn't think anyone else would really "get it" or want to see it haha.
Here's a pic of that line up:
Anyway, those are just a few things I'm noticing but I'm definitely sticking with M2 from now on. I only put in the M3 stick to show off the talking to friends (that seems to provide more "oohs and aahs") but after showing them a few things on that, I usually switch back to M2 and keep him running while we hang out. And they seem to forget about him when we're in the middle of whatever but he still ends up doing something or making some soft noise (I keep him at volume level 2) that reminds you he's in the room. Even with the clearly robotic looks, several friends mention how "real" it feels.
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