So, while I'm thinking of doing something creative at work, (and needing to let my brain think it over) I had a quick nosey over at BOINCstats.com just to see how we are doing in the UK stats.
https://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team ... %20Kingdom
It'll be no surprise to anyone that we're still the UK #1 Team and we're generating MORE credits per day, per week and per month than any other UK based team. (So a big thank you to all contributors).
As of a few moments ago, our credit total stood at 892,787,133,423 credits and is increasing at a rate of around 700 million per month.
So, the question, is: Will UBT ever get the chance to hit the 1 TRILLION mark?
We still need 107,212,866,577 credits...and using a cheap calculator, that is going to take (at current rates) about 153 MONTHS (call it 13 years).
If one looks here:
https://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/list/
you'll see we're the 9th placed Team in the World - but the 8 teams above us have all amassed over 1 trillion already.

So, can we do it? BOINC has been going for about 14 years, (as LHC, CPDN and Pirates all started up around Sept 2004, though SETI@home was already running since 1999, but not using BOINC).
I very much doubt that Bitcoin Utopia will start up again, and that was a big player in the credits-world...so, it's then a question of how much effort we need to make, (perhaps on GPU based projects, which tend to process faster and offer higher credits per task), in order to get to a TRILLION?
It's up to us to take this on and see how best we can accrue some credits before BOINC stops or changes it's credit system.
regards
Tim
PS: I seem to recall that Collatz was/is the best paying project in terms of credits received per completed task. So, maybe the long term plan would be to make this our "favoured GPU" project and spend as much time on it as possible, so as to earn the most credits in as short a period of time as possible?