Like I said, before, I do believe that BU has changed the landscape; however, some crunchers will adapt to the changing environment and use projects like BU to stay on top. As one of the top teams in the world… we have too; if we didn’t we would quickly lose our position to another team.
Look at what GPU’s did to the landscape… my (3) outdated GPU’s can run circles around most people running CPU only projects.
I do agree with Doug on this, that you get more in return in credits, the more equipment you buy.
I believe that most people that start crunching do it for the science like I did back in October 2009. I had one computer and Einstein, Seti and Milkyway were my first projects; I didn’t even know about credits back then. A year later in November 2010 I found SUSA and got the credit bug… which by the way, I still blame all you guys for that little mental disorder.
All things being equal, a person with one computer will never catch someone running three. Will that discourage some… maybe. BU isn’t really any different it just makes the pie graph look rather odd.
Will I ever be number one in total credits on this team? Very unlikely but that doesn’t discourage me… it motivates me. Granted, I’m not a new cruncher anymore but I once was… crunchers evolve.
Edit: If anyone cares to discuss this further, I'll move it to a more appropriate thread. Let me know.