Thoughts to ponder...
Yeah, the impossibility of fair cross project parity means total boinc credits really doesn't mean anything, but since the stats sites still post total credit as the main stat seen on the team stats pages so you have to admit that it still counts for something. No consider that Sic has DOUBLE our daily output!!! While a bunch of people jumped aboard Sic just to see if the underdog could beat SG and SUSA, it looks like a whole lot more fair weather fans decided to jump aboard after they took #1 just so they could say they are on the #1 team. That's sad. I pity them. Sheep. Or is it lemmings?
Anyone notice that the Polish National Team is now outproducing SG and beating us by 10 million credits per day? Granted, it will take them a couple years to catch us and a couple more to catch SG at that rate, but have been rallying their team members so they may be able to lessen the gap sooner than that.
At least one BOINC team has successfully merged with another. They contacted all the project admins and asked them to manually move the credits and team members from one to another. After getting a confirmation via email from both team's founders, I went ahead and moved the members over to the other team, changed the founder, removed the credits from the old team and added them to the new team. Both teams were small, so it wasn't like SG merged with Sic or anything like that, but it proves it could be done IF (and that is a capital IF) we could ever convince another team to merge with us. The biggest challenge is that the team name can't change because that would wipe out the stats since the name is the unique identifier for teams. Users' have GUIDs or CPIDs. Computers have CPIDs (needed to have crappy cross project parity stats). Teams only have names.