If you had doubled or tripled the copies you sent last time you would have a full complement returned by now. That would have sped the project up. Another opportunity missed!
ETA - Delayed

Well, if you consider to look at this the other side:
Sending out more copies would:
- use more processor time that would not be available to the other projects (kind of waste)
- need more time to compare the copies
- consume more bandwidth and storage to the grid servers
And this is the only intermittent project at this moment and the researchers need their time to analyse the results

Although I have fared better than most on WU's for DDDT2 through active management, when they start to come every badge hunter will be training their sights on the project. Meanwhile there are PLENTY of other worthy projects to crunch, if every available active project already has a blue badge I pick one and target crunching another year on it in the meantime in case new badges come out someday, maintaining a slim cache for quicker response. I missed out on the original DDDT by not paying attention to the ending date and don't want that to happen to me again. It wasn't too long ago when a gold was as good as it got! All the WCG projects are worthy of our CPU time and some have a more personal meaning to an individual, as in my case. I am certain there will be enough WU for all soon, just keep on crunching!

“Within days” Jean! Nice and vague.
I may be wrong about the 30drops priority, having remained dry, but more tasks ensure a faster return. An extra 30, 60 or 90 tasks would not have made much difference in terms of overall throughput, but would have sped the process up, you know, by days!
Some of the last DDDT2 tasks I picked up sat for hours before they ran; can’t remember if they were Betas or normal tasks, it was so long ago, but either way they should have ran immediately. Some were server recalled from a 24/i7 system.

w0en,
Having reached 2years for all the presently running projects, I do the same as you; get a 3rd year, then a fourth and a fifth. If I ever get a full suite of 5years, I will just move on from there, as astrolab is doing, and go for 10years.
As for the badges - I’m not that bothered if they take their time about it; we can DIY whatever badges we like into our signatures,

I don't know what you and astrolab are using for your computers. It might be interesting to find out if you have them set up at home and if you have other, remote sites, contributing to the work you are doing. I have retired and am adding to my home, and I think it may be good for making plans as to what I want to do. For instance, regarding the power requirement needs, I am considering adding solar panels to the roof to help take care of some of that.