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Forgive me if this has already been asked, but I searched the forums and Googled it, but couldn't find an answer. I'm going to start folding again (now that I realized PS3 had a client), and would like to split my points between multiple teams that I support.

Is there an easy way to do this, or would I simply have to manually change my team membership every now and then?

I know that the points aren't a big deal, and the fact that I'm helping science is the main thing, but it still would be nice.

To contribute to multiple teams from one computer, or one PS3, you will need to reconfigure the client to change the team number every so often.

If you have a PS3 AND a computer, you can configure each device for a different team, and/or reconfigure as needed.

Welcome back.

You can set each client to contribute to a different team, i.e. you could have your PS3 set to contribute to Team "Mushu Pork" under the name BillyBob and have a PC client contribute as BillyBob to Team "Chicken Fried Steak" (all names made up- I'm hungry right now). The issue in that case would be deciding which team gets the larger point contribution. You can always change the team later for whatever reason.

Sweet, that sounds awesome. Do you know of any tutorials that explain how to reconfigure your client to automatically change teams periodically? That's the approach I'd prefer to take rather than configuring each device for a specific team, because the computing capabilities will be vastly different between my PS3, laptop, and companies' rack of servers (search for topic entitled "Folding with multiple servers - need recommendations" for more info).

Thanks again!

I'm positive the clients won't change teams on their own, and I don't think there's any third-party software to do it. Automated software would require quitting the client, editing the shortcut target to add a flag, running the client, entering text, re-editing the shortcut target, and restarting the client- if you could figure out how to do that, then all power to you, but it doesn't sound too easy to me (of course I'm not an experienced programmer, so what do I know). If the config file were directly editable without risking messing up the client, then auto-software would be easier, but it's not (i.e. a program that edited client.cfg with a text editor would be a bad idea).