Kind of Sad...

[ViperX883]

Well, I maust say that this section has not been quite as successful as I had hoped it would be in attracting members to teh foldng team. Anyone have any ideas about how we could attract more members???

[KryoNexus]

not sure to be honest.

i'm not really a big folding guy myself as i generally need my cpu cycles about as much as the computer is turned on. i used to run SETI, but it interfered with my P2P apps when the computer was idle. I would imagine that folding would be the same way.

i'd say the best thing for us might be to merge with EOC as you have done. maybe we could get the three of us together, come up with a new name for the team (something that incorporates all of us) and keep going to put team MAC OS X to shame. just a thought. Let me know what you tihnk.

[ViperX883]

Well, it really isn;t my call to decide regarding renaming teams or anything of that sort, but I'm betting that most of the guys over there would be against it sadly. In any case, I will keep trying to get some mebers here and see what happenes. Maybe I can sponsor a little giveaway or something to get some people to fold.

[SAMSAMHA]

maybe most of the members are already participate in other folding team. I think giveaway is nice. On the other hand, I think we really need more members, taht way, you will get more people interested in joining the folding team, as well as boosting the forum's activity.
Why not put the folding and the contest together, so if you spend certain amount of time on folding team, you got more chance at winning prize during the contests.

[ViperX883]

I had suggested that to playafly, so we'll wait and see what he comes up with.

[KryoNexus]

yeh, not a half bad idea. however, don't your scores transfer with you if you change teams. i.e. someone with a high score switches teams for the contest to win it, but then switches back afterwards.

[ViperX883]

Scores will not transfer teams, so if they move to the OCIA team then they will be leaving their previous points with their previous team. However, points do stay under that folders name. For example, if I fold 100 points for OCIA and 100 for OCIA, then I can never transfer those points from one team to another. However, I personally get to keep all those points under my name, meaning that I have folded 200 points... it's just half of them are with one team and half of them are with another. The idea is to oly make people eligible who have x posts and who have been folding for OCIA for x weeks. Maybe something like this:

To be eligible, you must:
Fold 500 points per week
Fold for OCIA for two weeks
Have 25 posts in the OCIA forums

[KryoNexus]

i c. we'll give it some big consideration for the next contest then.

[ViperX883]

Actually, the more I think about it, there are no requirements at all for people to win prizes right now... all they have to do is register and make 1 post and they are eligible. At least this way, even if they do leave teh forum, they will have had to contribute something to it. What I'm saying is that if you are worried about people folding only to get teh prizes, then I don't really see why that would worry you considering that people don't even have to do that much to get the prizes currently.

[Caj Darkmoon]

Gah, I have to shut down the blue beast of much noise at night, so I'm not sure I CAN do that many points in a week. :P

[playafly187]

thanks to everyone for their feedback and ideas. some of these ideas sound really good, but would be difficult to make into a contest. for example:

To be eligible, you must:
Fold 500 points per week
Fold for OCIA for two weeks
Have 25 posts in the OCIA forums


While I am not really sure how much "work" 500 points is per week, this could be difficult with someone running a "not so powerful" computer.

To fold for OCIA.net for 2 weeks sounds great on paper, but that means that a winner could not really be drawn until two weeks after the deadline, as to ensure that people are meeting the requirements. does that make sense?

25 posts in the forums sounds great, though ;)

SAMSAMHA's idea of giving more chances to win for those who produce more points or work units sounds pretty good, although again, this would benefit those with more powerful systems. i would kind of like it to be fair for everyone; not "the rich guy with five 3 ghz systems gets a better chance to win, just because he has more money to buy systems". make sense?

[ViperX883]

500 PPW is really not that much... a 1.8GHz folding 24/7 should be able to do it, but if you want you can back it down to like 300 PPW, which is easily attainable with almost any P4 or Athlon XP. Also, the idea of the 2 weeks folding thing is this... a contest is open for like a month, correct??? So state in the entry terms that you must fold for at least 2 weeks during the contest period... not after the contest period. I would say that any time spent folding after the contest period ends should count toward the next contest.

Just some more ideas... I just really think that a month long contest offers plenty of ime to fold for at leats two weeks, and also that 300 PPW is very reasonable. Also, by requiring 300 PPW, everyone who meets that requirement has equal opportunity to win... so that takes care of the problem about people having powerful comps. Heck, if you're really concerned drop it to 200. That's maybe 1-4 WU's depending on which ones you get, and any comp should be able to do that.

[SAMSAMHA]

well, I am not suggesting that we should require people to fold certain amount of point. I wonder can we say like if you fold like 10 hour or so, you got extra chance or something. That way, even if your system is not powerful, you still would get the equal chance, as long as you contribute. I think that's better, after all, it's not the point but the contribution that's important.
I guess we need to think this through before we make it into the real deal.

[ViperX883]

The point system is esigned to accurately reflect the contribution... it is highly unlikely that anyone can finish even one WU in 10 hours. The only real way to keep track of folding time is through the points.... they are designed tomeasure contribution, so we have teh same idea basically. Every person must contribute x amount to be eligible for the prize.