rewood1000,

Firstly, welcome to the forum, and secondly, welcome to an "end game", triple time...

As to your predicament on what to crunch and when so as to try and guarantee your three Emerald badges, it really depends as to how much time/effort you're willing to put into it. As HFCC & HCMD2 have such varied lengths of WU's, these are the tricky ones to predict (it's been quite some time since I last crunched HCC, but if I remember correctly, they did have a pretty standard length). So, by taking your last bunch of HCC WU's, it should be fairly easy to predict as to how many more you need - so, go grab them ASAP (especially considering, according to SekeRobs' dashboard, that project seems to be the nearest to the end), After which, you'll only really need to concentrate on the other two projects. Here, again, by investing a little time, you should be able to work out as to how much you've got in PV and thus, as to what else you need. Whether you decide to work on one, then the other (whilst keeping an eye on the third), that's your decision. One advantage with HFCC, is that it's a Zero Redundancy project (i.e. there's no wingmen to worry about - and thus, no PV to calculate).

Always keep in mind though, that, where possible, the WCG techs will give a "30 day warning" of the ending of a project. Of course, this is only a prediction, but at least it's something to go on.

Finally, good luck in achieving your goal.

Edit: Just to confirm, a WCG year is 365 days exactly - there's no "leap year" to worry about here...

Rewood1000... Welcome ! Another tool to use when calculating "time left" in a project is the dashboard that Sekerob keeps updated. Remember, all of this is just a best-can-do guesstamation.

CJSL

I would like to thank everyone for the suggestions. Cjslman, I have been studying SekeRob's chart like a race sheet for the past week since I got my Ruby in HCMD.

gb009761, thank you for the info on HFCC being Zero Redundancy, for I had no idea it wasn't. Not wondering about PVs being valid will help in the final stretch. And I will be putting in the time and effort toting up the cumulative PVs so that I don't compute to much on one project in order to add that time to the next. I found that out when I stopped HCMD at 177 days for the Ruby, and then the PVs carried on to 191 days.

JmBoullier, thank you for the calculations and reassurance. I am going to go with HCC, HCMD2, and then HFCC, all the while adding up what I have in PVs. I will try for 12 days on HCC, 15 on HCMD2, and, like you said, should have enough time while doing HFCC to make up any lost time. Um, at least that's the plan for now.

Like everyone else, I'll be watching for the last 30 days announcement. Thanks for help and support everyone!

I haven't yet. I guess it's just that we're in a run of child/grandchild batches, which seem to have a higher priority than parent batches in the feeder.

I calculated that I might have already all the wus needed to bring me to sapphire, maybe I will return some or get an handful more, so I wanted to wish good luck to all the badge hunters in this last stint.

See you in the other thread, when celebrating the new sapphire!