Hey, all! I'm going to interface my browser-based roleplaying game with World Community Grid and provide players with expanded in-game features based on their contributions.

The programming side of things - getting the variables out of WCG's xml files and storing them in my game's database, coming up with a validation scheme, making sure that the person who owns the WCG account is the same person who owns the player account and so on - is done. Now, I just have to tie this information into the game by assigning a fictitious currency, and create things for the players to buy. Bizarrely enough this is the hard part!

To ensure that the game remains balanced, I could do with knowing roughly how many points it'd be possible for one computer to generate in one day.

TBH I'm still not entirely sure how "points" are calculated - does anyone have a link to a more comprehensive overview than is provided on the WCG website?

Also, am I correct in believing that Points are distributed according to effort rather than results (IE a 1ghz machine left running all day will generate roughly as many points as a 2ghz machine in similar circumstances)?

Many thanks for any replies, and I'll post a link to the game once it's operational,

-CavemanJoe