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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Same goes for badges.
If you have the capacity of crunching 1year/calender day, then your score is not so shiny either. No way to know. Then again, since the talk is about badges here, I'd prefer to see a 4-8-16 year badge system appear as opposed to a 1 week/1day/1 WU badge system. The former will tell a lot more than the latter. Bragging rights: Hurray, I can prove I crunched 1 full work unit once upon a time!!! OR Bragging rights: Hm, now people can see I have a 16-year badge. Pick your choice  |
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sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I choose both!
Let the newbie's in the door. By the way the 4-8-16years would be perfect for me, but I know of many users that already have over 100years for one project! It does little for them. So it is not that inclusive. I would prefer 1year, 10years, 100years and 1000years. Remember people already have 12 and 24 threaded systems. That is 15days to get a green year badge and a month to reach Blue. 48 threaded systems are not far away and at the same time single core systems are still being produced. So a broader spread of badges would encourage everyone. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Exactly! Limiting the next stage to "just" 16 years would be a pretty short sighted move. Most people will be able to hit those goals with a few machines in the next couple of years.
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sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Its not a goal if it has already been achieved
Although there is one intermittant project at the minute, its not like we can get all the tasks we want. So I, like many others here, have no badge goals; which of course defeats the very purpose of having badges. How about a spare badge where all your spare credit could go. Not just for the badges you missed but for the days crunched over and above that of the blue badge, or say past a green badge on a project that is over. Mind you it really would need to go up to a big number of years - at least 1000! |
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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That "spare badge" is also something I have been thinking about. Some type of trading could be interesting, at a cost so only people who think it extremely important would do it.
Like, in your case, getting the opportunity to upgrade your DDDT-badge by migrating days from FAH project to DDDT, at for instance a 50% cost. Then again, and I can imagine that this is what count for the techs, what will that accomplish to increase the crunching? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Like, in your case, getting the opportunity to upgrade your DDDT-badge by migrating days from FAH project to DDDT, at for instance a 50% cost. That idea has been posed before and soundly rejected.It is not about the badges. It is about the science. Think about it. You have a Bronze badge for DDDT2 but you crunched 28 days of FA@H? Not going to happen. Thank goodness. That is just like getting a badge for not crunching a WU. |
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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Agree, hence the "have been thinking" instead of "am thinking"
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
How about a spare badge where all your spare credit could go. Not just for the badges you missed but for the days crunched over and above that of the blue badge, or say past a green badge on a project that is over. New Badge Announcement: I Want Credit For Every WU Badge. Awarded to a cruncher who is unable to stop crunching a project at exactly 2 years, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 seconds and accumulates all crunch time for all projects in this situation.Meaningless. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Posters send on a guilt trip. 16 No Contribution badges... the white one with a cross through All of these badges, one for each project, would be awarded when you sign up. All crunchers would immediately have 16 badges before they complete their first WU. When a new project is announced, all crunchers, active, alive or not, would receive the new badge, thereby assuring all crunchers have the same number of badges at all times. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It might therefore be a good idea to introduce a new badge based on total run time If you have 4 Emeralds and your run time is about 5 years, then there may not be a need for a run time badge because the badges provide a general representation of the time donated.If you have 9 Sapphires (18 years) and 42 years of run time, then the badges do not provide a reasonable representation. If you have 1 (ten year badge), 3 (five year badges) and 5 Sapphires then you have a reasonable representation of 42 years. |
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