Transfer of CPDN credits

Robert Boon · Post by **Robert Boon** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:47 pm

Can anyone tell me why it is that as far I am aware, uniquely, CPDN transfers all its credits when an individual changes teams?

If CPDN can do it, why don't other projects do it as well.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:53 pm

Other projects (SETI) did not want to do this as it was deemed unfair to teams.

The thinking behind it was to stop people with big credits trying to influence what happens within a team.

Also they wanted it so that any work you did for that team stayed with that team so that if you decided to leave the team could still retain the work you had done for them, seen as though you were a member of a particular team for any given time.

Don't know why CPDN don't do it like that and have it the other way around. As for the other projects they have just followed the lead from SETI.

Does that help

Robert Boon · Post by **Robert Boon** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:59 pm

Thanks for the reply

Could it be that CPDN decided to be different as they are the only British based BOINC project and believes in a Darwinian winner takes all philosphy.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:01 pm

Go British

Have no real idea why there must be a reason but I don't know it

DJH@GB-Ro · Post by **DJH@GB-Ro** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:38 pm

I think it's a bit unfair, but it worked well for us this week

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:12 pm

Robert Boon wrote:Could it be that CPDN decided to be different as they are the only British based BOINC project and believes in a Darwinian winner takes all philosphy.

I think it might be because for a given CPDN WU, you get credits for each trickle you upload.

And I guess that trying to keep track of individuals credits from a single WU as members leave and join other teams might be tricky - not impossible - but tricky.

Think BBC CCE is the same as CPDN when it comes to credits leaving a team when the member leaves.

There is a choice made by the project admins as to how they want the team credits to be calculated - and other projects do it differently.

SETI changed their system when they moved to BOINC, because with SETI Classic, each member could build up their points with one team, leave, join another and then the team rankings all went to cock.

Most yanks didn't like that, as they "thought" that some non-US teams might beat the US ones

So that maybe why they came up with this new system.

regards,

Tim

UBT - Steve Taylor · Post by **UBT - Steve Taylor** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:49 pm

with this in mind can anyone think of ways to attract Cpdn users to our Wonderful team ? Obviously the fantastic Web Site and Forum Help.
Keep up the good work to all those who are making it happen its appreciated

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:53 pm

UBT - Steve Taylor wrote:with this in mind can anyone think of ways to attract Cpdn users to our Wonderful team ? Obviously the fantastic Web Site and Forum Help.
Keep up the good work to all those who are making it happen its appreciated

All I have done is changed my sig over to the UBT Logo, and made it click-able to bring people to the forum, under my banner ad is a link to the join button for people to press.

Hopefully just posting a few helpful messages here and there will get people to come over here and have a look. I don't mean come and look at us posts, just helping out and participating in the forums

Robert Boon · Post by **Robert Boon** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:53 pm

Looking at the top 100 UK CPDN crunchers and their team affliations shows the following distribution:

Team CF 8
United Kingdom 20
OCuk Overclockers UK 9
Matrox Users 7
UBT 2
Other teams 30
No team 24

Just attracting one or two of those not attached to a team would be a massive boost as you need 200k credits to make the UK CPDN top 100!

Oddly the top CPDN crunchers seem less inclined to join teams as by comparison only 5 of the top 100 UK Seti crunchers are not members of teams.

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:29 pm

UBT - Steve Taylor wrote:with this in mind can anyone think of ways to attract Cpdn users to our Wonderful team ? Obviously the fantastic Web Site and Forum Help. Keep up the good work to all those who are making it happen its appreciated

Hi Steve,

I personally think that the "lack" of support on the web for members of "UNITED KINGDOM" and "Team CF" might be one way for our team to attract their members.

Possibly this might be one reason why a recent member of "UNITED KINGDOM" joined us. (Have to wait for Keith to join our forum and perhaps tell us why he joined !)

And as those two teams are mostly made up of CPDN members, so if more of their members "came over", their respective credits would count towards our overall total, and the members would still be "involved" with a significant team and benefit from the forum and team site.

A truly, "win, win" scenario...!

regards,

Tim