I have two clients running all projects and one running the DDDT and CEP for my gold badge. And at last I have a small acer aspire one just running rice. I'm thinking that its a bit selfish to just run the projects that are important too me, so I contribute in all for now, maybe I'm getting more selfish by the years, you never know, you know

For a start, congratulations pirogue on gaining so many Gold badges so quick - after all, you've only been with us since the early part of December

You must surely have some powerful machines under your command... especially if you've calculated that you'll have the other two available Gold badges by the end of the week (as DDD-T is/was only a Bronze badge when you originally posted, that's 45 CPU days to crunch at best, not including the remainder you'll need to get your Gold in NRW).

As for what's next... Well, as I'm sure you're already aware of, there's always talk in the forum of implementing a higher badge than Gold (at a guess, that'd be for at least 1 years CPU contribution to a project), so that's something to go for... Also, there are rumours that there's another project or two in the offing...

Then, of course, there's always the challenge of helping to finish 'crunching' a particular project (or two) earlier - perhaps one that you've got a personal interest in...

Finally, and this is truly a hard one to succeed in, there's always the Beta badge to go for... For this, you won't just need shear 'processing power', but luck as well - as there's so few Beta WU's, and so many people looking for them... (that is, of course, when there's some testing going on for your particular platform...).

Am planning to have at least 1 year CPU time for any running project because you'll never know what higher honors are being bestowed

(sitting on a silver with 2.6 days short of the Genome Comparison project gold ... grrrr)

I am working on balancing the run times on all my projects. CEP is approaching 1 year (currently halted for lack of WU) and FA@H and DDDT are working on their second year.

It will all get rearranged if we get the new Project X to start in March. I`ll reassign my systems and push the new project to one year before I go back to balancing the projects.

pirogue,

I think that is a good approach but take a little bit of attention on SEKEROB coment posted:

"Am planning to have at least 1 year CPU time for any running project because you'll never know what higher honors are being bestowed"

From my side, after all GOLD badges that I can get by now, my focus is just gain more YEARS time for each project, in order to be qualified for any future change in WCG badges rules. One by one project by project, my intention is similar SEKEROB comented.

I lost in recent past, the possibility to have all GOLD badge level for all projects due lack of time available and attention on projects time crunched and probably due did not participated actively in forums to collect right and fresh information about new projects and it duration...