codysluder wrote:FACT: The points system is not changing.
FALSE ASSUMPTION: PPD is not changing.
The same points per WU and Kfactors will still apply to all projects. The same formula will be used to calculate points.
Which WUs will be assigned will change, and that's nothing new. In fact, it's constantly changing. The only difference here is that there has been an announcement of a future change to assignment policy. Some will benefit from that change. Some will suffer a loss. Some will see no change. Some won't care if the change affected them or not.
Those that suffer a loss will understandably complain, but VijayPande has announced the change because it benefits science (and there seems to be little doubt about that), recognizing that it needs to be made even though some people won't like it.
Well congratulations on all your thumbs up, Cody.
Only problem is that we haven't been told anything remotely useful in making a Folding at Home hardware purchase. We are fast approaching the most important buying season of the year. And we have been told nothing, except that, "nothing is for sure, and we are not going to let you know how it will effect you, until January".
SO DON"T BUY ANYTHING! is what you all seem to be cheering on. Good thinking. That is what I have told my teammates
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high ... =1#1337352
Secondly 100% of the people on the evga website seemed to think this favored 4P systems and most of the talk was about purchasing 4P and 2P systems. I would be suprised if that wasn't true of all the folding communities, and if a lot of people had purchased based on the current points, the back lash would have been quite severe.
This has already caused 50 folders at evga to start and join wcg@evga, a distributed folding team we didn't have a week ago, and it is comprised entirely of people who are my folding at home teammates. Keep this up and it could be a lot more people.
We need to be informed, the idea was sound, but execution has been very, VERY POOR.
If you or others knew that
"The points system is not changing.
FALSE ASSUMPTION: PPD is not changing"
then you should have been letting others know, at your teams and here as well, as they certainly did not!
I know I don't want any more people to leave Folding at Home.
I hope you have seen how the teams have been mislead or have misunderstood what is going on with this change.
You should go live with this as soon as possible or give us the particulars NOW!!!