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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Scribe wrote: Colours should be easy, keep existing as they are and go for bright florescent for 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 years  Fixed for you - just to keep current numbering   Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for the comments on new badge levels - we're thinking about expanding those beyond the current levels. No anticipated release date yet - we're early in the design phase for this enhancement. thank u for the great admining of the site! also, always keep in mind for the future...and post some "goals for us", than at the moment r unachievable...but will be achieved in the future with computer upgrades... ;) |
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 815 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Having a few computers at my semi-disposal means I have been able to get a few years of crunching time rather quickly. (Good)
----------------------------------------I have been depressed though to see that with Boinc projects, not just WCG, people don't seem to stay long (another discussion, not meaning for rabbit trail). Case in point my signature shows that despite less than 4 years run time, I am roughly in the top 5% (time, points, returns). I don't mean this to brag as I don't feel I have earned the right to do so. If anything I am sad more people don't stay longer which would hence force me to give something like 20 years before I come to the top 5%. I would love a situation like that as it means more people are helping as these projects are getting that much closer to completion. Long story short, not many people could get badges beyond the 2 year sapphire badge. But as the lions share of work gets done by a minority (not a surprise) they should earn the ability to show that off (which is the purpose of badges in the first place). This also means the minority that exists is doing most of the work and that is well worth it to give them the extra perks as it is in the best interests of WCG. I am all for either the colors changing (florescent was mentioned, neon possible, same idea) or simply adding the years # to a corner of the sapphire badge (5, 10, 15, 20, ...). The second option doesn't change the color scheme so people can have all the same color keeping their nice pattern, but still show the # of years put forth. Cheers~  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Seoulpowergrid at Apr 24, 2014 2:09:27 AM] |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Anther reason for adding additional badges is that computing power has increased considerably (I'll let somebody else figure out how much) in the last 10 years (remember... this year is the 10th birthday of WCG
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Hot Mess
Cruncher Joined: Jul 1, 2013 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
My idea for a badge, it would have only the size of the old badge on 40x40 be modified to have enough space for the numbers.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Anther reason for adding additional badges is that computing power has increased considerably ... Therefore, it is a lot easier to make it to sapphire now than 10 years ago. But don't forget that badges are based on runtime, so it's the number of cores/threads you can run rather than the computing power in a thread. I agree that it's now easier to make it to sapphire, but it's because of the availability of multi-core machines.For the sake of completeness, let's not forget in all this that increased computing power for whatever reason gets more research done  . |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Therefore, it is a lot easier to make it to sapphire now than 10 years ago. It was impossible to make it 10 years ago, there were no badges, they are a recent addition CJSL Crunching for a better world... |
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I know it's probably never going to happen (as I and many others were told so several times), but I have this idea I can't get out of my head, so I need to say it out loud: the new badge could be "stone"...
----------------------------------------Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein   [Edit 1 times, last edit by CandymanWCG at Oct 27, 2015 9:12:21 AM] |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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but not any stone...a rock hard Stone!
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It can even be a Rolling Stone...just as long as it's there. I'm not picky.
---------------------------------------- Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein |
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