I for one am leaving Boinc due to this issue I do not wish to use my 464 cpu cores and 4 GPU's to compete against ASIC miners. According to Boinc stats there is a far greater need and value for the supposed science done by ASIC miners than CPU's and GPU's, so be it, That is Boinc projects choice and I will make my choice. I will find something else to do with my donation and will be switching over by the end of September. I myself believe all of the credit should be removed and placed in it own separate category or reduced and brought in line with the majority of Boinc projects. #1 being my first choice.
I will not choose to participate in a supposed science project that thinks the value of a non supported corruption laced currency has a greater value than a science project does.
I love posts like this. I cannot compete so I quit. Someone's toys are better than mine, so I am going home with my toys. If the community or some project doesn't change I am going to take my valuable self away. We have already proven more than once that the computational power and work done is real. The sad part is you are thinking about it side ways, you are not competing against ASICs.
It is so simple. Compete within the projects you love. Enjoy crunching and pushing and getting better in the arenas of your choice. The points between projects were never really comparable and never will be. Let it go and stop looking at the combined. Everyone is so judgmental on what is a good and bad project and everyone will never agree. Get over it and yourself. Pick what you want to do and enjoy it. This whine about what projects should or should not pay has been going on for years. It will never change, even if they add categories. Go after badges, go after credits and milestones in projects of your choice and let others choose for themselves. Compete in challenges for fun, compete with teammates for who can get the most out of a single machine, see how much good work you can do for projects of your choosing in the least amount of time. There are so many ways to have fun here, don't let whining about credits blind you to the opportunities here.
People are whining in one breath that it is about the science and ranting about credits in the next. It just shows for those folks it is truly about the credits. Which is fine, but think about it in terms of the good you are doing for the projects you deem interesting and worth your time and money. I like to compete as much as the next cruncher. I did it in terms of can my 3 PCs get me into the top ten daily on any project I decided to crunch. I didn't always like the project I picked to crunch but picked/crunched them for othe reason I like - Formula Boinc, team goals, team challenges and the Pentathlon. The team activities are a blast, so it was worth the crunching power on the projects.
If it is truly about the science for someone, none of this topic should matter to them. Don't let a silly thing like credits get in the way of doing the good work.
Taking your stuff and leaving only really affects you and projects you want to help. Wouldn't it be more fun with your setup to see how many CPU projects you can get to the top 100 or picking a GPU project as seeing what good you can do? It simply requires changing the mind set and ignore combined totals.
I guess it is easy for me to say since I have already retired from BONIC. At least it was a choice of what I want to do next now that I am done playing here and not some whiny excuse.