That is ingenious.. Some of those could be used as hidden levels of badges, or as easter eggs in WCG. Anyway


Yeah. That just ain't working very well..

I would say then that why not have also badges for the total number of points. We have badges per project which is fine. We can add another two or three to cover let's say up to maybe 50 years per project. The problem is that after that it is not practical as projects tend to end before you can reach higher levels. So having impossible project badges would not make sense.

So let's have badges on the total number of points not per project but overall. Maybe skgiven this was what you meant but it was not clear for me. So my proposal would be:

10 Million WCG points = Immortal

100 Million WCG points = Angel

1 Billion WCG points = Saint

10 Billion points = God

I do not like the term of Half God. It is in two words and what it means is not very clear.

Compared to projects all these levels are achievable on a longer terms. It is not dependent on projects and only depends on the very existence of WCG.
At the moment the first 10 members are Sanctified.
Nobody yet is God. The rank 1 member would need another 6.5 years to become God.
The God level has to be extremely hard to achieve yet be achievable.

Hypernova, I like the idea of one overall badge (to rule them all). Perhaps points based, perhaps even Boinc based. I would tend to agree with our scientist friend on the use of religion though; unless you could pick one of about 30 religions, and a few non-religious alternatives - all too complicated.
I would suggest the obvious and simple use of the periodic table elements. Just one badge per existing element, with every million points or year equal to the next element (there are quite a few). Yes, there are a few gaps later on, but that is hardly an issue. So after 30years (or 30M points) you would have Zn (Zinc). That would keep the masses happy. As for the Mega-Crunchers (mostly companies), an additional system would be required. Perhaps molecular weights; Myoglobin weighs 16700 daltons, so should someone ever reach 16.7 Billion points, there would still be a badge! I guess someone could come up with a better idea, but I like the idea of making it educational.

it's fine to discuss other badge systems, but you have to remember that, while WCG will add new badges sometime, it is not going to change any existing badges, and I agree with that. it would be very wrong to appear to penalize a member, for example who now has a Gold badge, that by rewriting the badge system then has a Nickel badge instead for 90 days while a Gold badge is then reset to be 10 years. It is not going to happen.

So feel free to suggest new badges for 5, 10, 25 years, etc and feel free to observe and discuss other system, but I suggest that nobody gets all fired up about trying to convince WCG to change what is already there.