How many of you are working on D2OL?

[NeoGen]

I've noticed that I'm going up on the ranks within the team at D2OL faster than I should. In 23 days (according to the "age" info on my account in D2OL) I managed to go up from 58th place (last position) to 36th (current position).
Now that's almost going up one position a day, and I've only been running D2OL 2 days for each week. (I'm running several projects at once)
So, if this is the priority project... What is everyone doing?

C'mon people!!! Let's get to work and move up from the 20th place!


p.s. - ok...ok...speech apart, I just wanted to ask something. Is the priority project idea still going on?

p.s.s. - Another question: How many users has Team AMD Users REALLY got? I mean, active users working on some project. Not counting users that for some reason have stopped contributing and haven't restarted anymore.

[Bionic_Redneck]

The priority preject thing is ignored sometimes or should I say more time than not. If it was a perment thing where we had the same project always our main project but as it stands I will pretty much ignore it too.

We have lots of members that have never even been to the team forum. two projects that come to mind are rsattak and lifemapper

[jlangner]

I have most of mine on TSC. I have one or 2 pcs I try to put on the priority project. I am on vacation from work and my work pc I have on D2OL must have rebooted or something because stats not going up. I try to help as much as I can on the priority project without letting TSC slip. I think alot of people here have there own "pet" projects if u will and and stay with them, and as like Bionic said some members never come to the website so never know what the priority is. Basicall we need more members and on a good note I have seen several new members show up lately on TSC. I think once you get your project in the top 20, then people look at you as an option to join. There are alot that want join the teams at the bottom. Jm2C

[Anonymous]

Alright Bionic, you seem to be the one lodging all the complaints. What does everyone need to do to make you happy?

[vaughan]

I try to spread my efforts over several projects but will focus on one if the need arises. eg, currently I think the large protein on DF is too slow so I'd prefer not to run this application but on the otherhand I won't let Keith get too close I'm watching Ubero as I don't want "twistedwire" to knock me off World #8th rank (they are 13,764 behind as I write this and they are doing about 1000 a day, so I guess I'll crank up on Ubero soon!). Recently I've concentrated on D2OL (as the priority project) but also to try to catch Jarmo who defected from our team to Free-DC (traitor) but Jarmo is very strong. I crunched some TSC to help jlanger's request recently. Last night I noticed that I was down a rank in Lifemapper and Grid On Tap so I hit both projects hard and regained my positions. Trouble is ... even with about 18GHz 8O ... there are never enough computers running. :D

[Omegatay]

TSC is my baby and will be until they have nothing for me to crunch. I went from bottom of the pile to number 9 in less then 3 weeks. I am happy with my progress so far.

[Bionic_Redneck]

Alright Bionic, you seem to be the one lodging all the complaints. What does everyone need to do to make you happy?

spjeff, I don't see answering someones question as complaining as for the priority project I don't care what you do I will continue to run whatever project I choose.

[chaz]

D2OL was the priority project like a month ago....
I didnt know it was still "priority", unless im just not paying enough attention.
I will have to agree with Bionic in the fact that the Priority Project is somewhat ignored.........If we cant do it as a team why do it at all?
I mean maybe not pull every machine you have away from the project you prefer to run, but every little bit helps.

What's the point of being a team, if we cant work as one?
Some of these projects i cannot stand, but i will run them if one or more of my teammates needs a hand.

[NeoGen]

I agree with chaz there. I guess that bottomline is that we need to get organized as a team. I have my favourite projects like everyone else, but I'm willing to run any other project if it's for the good of the team.
I browsed the Priority project forum and I saw some good ideas, but I guess they never got to be implemented. I remember seeing one that was kinda like creating sub-teams of few users for each project and an auxiliary team for boosting up on the team that needed. That might even be crazy enough to work. But the thing is that we might not have enough users for pulling it out. :cry:

And another problem is, like many users said already, if we focus our strenghts in one project we will most likely drop a lot on all other projects. Indeed, that is true. But isn't the priority project idea just for that? So that we could kick ass in some project instead of being in the mid table on all of them?


Let's think about it people.

[jlangner]

I think the priority project should be used for:

1) If the regulars on a project notice we are about to get smacked from behind, call in reinforcements. I know from experience, this team will answer your call. The reason this helps, is because alot of the teams will do a priority project as well, but they only do for a week or so (Now team Russia, Discovery, etc. no chance too big). So if you beef up for a week until there attack is over, or as in here, the members get tired of doing that project for more than a week and you can "outlast" them.

2) If the stat crunchers calculate that we need to improve on project ....., and we will jump in DC Overall stats, etc.

Its obvious we don't have the crunchers right now to make us ranked in the top 10 or 20 in every project, but some we can. D2OL, TSC, GOT, Ubero, Lifemapper, etc. When you get to that rank, people will notice you when they are deciding to join, and hopefully they will love AMD, see the name, and join the cause. Other projects like UD and SETI and don't think we could ever get that high. they have just 2 many teams and crunchers to compete with.

As far as subteams, I think we pretty much have anyway, even though not formally. Very few of us don't have a "pet" project, and pretty much stay with it until the call is made.