But if you are only going to release about 1700 workunits per day WHY did you come here to WCG to do this project? According to BoincStats there are 42,052 Active Users and 169,409 Active hosts so the chance of getting a workunit is slim and none at the best of times!! This is alot like trying get badges for TB also, what's the point of even trying? Sure about 1700 pc's per day get a workunit, but what about the other over forty thousand of them? Wouldn't it just be better to build up a stash of them and then release enough for LOTS of people to get into helping you solve this problem? At this rate, I have 17 pc's and have gotten ONE workunit for the Africa Rainfall Project, I have almost given up even trying!! I do have a couple of p's still asking but even they will be stopped if they don't get some soon, there's no point in wasting the time asking if you aren't going to send any workunits anyway. And before you say 'try another project' I have two accounts here and am already at the 15 year mark for every badge except TB, Beta and Africa Rainfall!!

To Mikey and all of us badge hunters.

Don't miss the point!
Although many of us enjoy hunting WUs when a new project comes alive, this is NOT the purpose of WCG.
The main objective is to provide free computing power to scientists who cannot afford buying time in supercomputers for projects which need years of computing.

And as long as there are many more volunteers hunting these WUs than the lab and WCG are able to provide this objective is largely reached. Not forgetting the thousands of other volunteers ready to crunch these WUs if ever badge hunters give up.

An automated waiting list, where you could put in a request for work, and watch it move up the list as these coveted, limited-supply WUs are drip-fed to volunteers, would seem a fairer way of distributing work. Not saying you need to limit the WUs per volunteer, just let us see that our machines will eventually receive at least some WUs.
But as it involves extra work to set it up, seems pretty unlikely it will ever be enacted.

It takes less than five minutes to set up a cron job or Scheduled Task. Some people here are spending much longer than five minutes complaining when they could simply "set it and forget it." A little bit of effort goes a long way. Stop whining about "fair share" and accept personal responsibility to get tasks based on five minutes of simple merit.

Other things to keep in mind:

1) It's possible that ARP1 WU supply will increase over time as some of the storage and data bottlenecks are ironed out. The project has only been live for 10-12 days! Have some patience.

2) There are still two other very worthy climate modeling projects in the pipeline. If/when they launch, we'll have three climate modeling projects active on top of the other worthy medical projects.