When you have a project that needs 87,000 years of crunching, there can be no value to rewarding people for crunching just a few days. What we need are badges for crunchers with YEARS of crunching, not days. Getting 87,000 years takes 2.2 MILLION Beta badges and we only have about 80,000 crunchers each day. What? You want a new badge for every week?

AC@H is hard to get because of the hardware and communications requirements, which is why it takes less to get the badges.

Getting badges on hard-to-get projects is not a matter of luck. If you have a buffer of 2 days YOU WILL NEVER get a Beta WU. Never, if the Beta has to be returned in 2 days. If you have 256 cable Internet, you will NEVER get an AC@H badge. Sorry. If you are crunching HPF2 exclusively, you are severely limiting your probability of seeing a Beta WU, because of the long WU length. Now that FA@H is going to a shorter WU length, that may help many people.

If you get a Beta WU by luck then you get one or two. If thats all you got for the original CEP Beta, then you were lucky. I am able to have a small buffer, in my situation, and that affords me the opportunity to score well with Beta WU and also with a fairly high occurrence of repair WUs. I even got several repair Beta WU on my reliable systems for CEP. If and when AC@H comes back to life, I don't know what my chances are going to be.

To astrolab.

Obviously, Platinum Badges will not be for a few more weeks of crunching. It will be for the WCG coordinators to set up the next goal for the next Badge after Gold witch can be hundreds (ex. 300) of days worth of crunching and Diamond (1000) even in thowsands of days for the heavy lifters and maybe Quantum Badge for (10000) tens of thousands of days.

As I posted earlier, I was crunching before there were badges. I didn't crunch a single work unit just so that I could get a badge.

Put your money where your mouth is. I'll cover it.

Anyway... I guess I should try to stop thinking to develop (energize) WCG attitude towards getting "more bang for the buck". It will be really stupid for a member to care more about WCG growth than WCG itself.
But for everybody here with the same enthusiast towards Distributed Computing Growth as some I see in this thread, I have to mention that DC it's not just about putting your computers to use, it's also putting your mind & heart in it.
I don't want to insult anybody here, but there are active crunchers and passive crunchers. And only active crunchers increase DC by more than just they're computers... It is all about growth, not just crunching.

Have you reviewed any of the many posts on how to configure your system to receive Beta jobs? Are your system(s) on all the time? Are they ranked as reliable? Have you done everything that you can to optimize your chances? Do you monitor the Beta Forums for announcements?

As a member, you are pretty new to WCG too. With WCG averaging 1 Beta WU for every 2600 project WU, you have a ways to go to reach even an average number of WU for 1 Beta WU.