Umm.. you seem to have taken what I said quite personally bcavnaugh. Sorry that I struck a nerve but my comments weren't really directed at yourself.

"You identify BOINC Members as Wealthy"

No, I call people with 15 or 20 high end RTX cards and high end CPU's as being wealthy. You can't deny that fact when you look at the hardware. Am I jealous of that? Perhaps. Would I do the same if I had that much money? Probably. Does having all that hardware mean a little less luck is required to find a prime? Of course.

"You should see just how much money it costs to have a hobby in Astronomy and Astrophotography."

Actually I own a 10" dobsonian telescope so I'm well aware of the costs with that hobby. (I'm not into the photography side though because I'd need a scope with tracking.)

"You also forgot to post that a lot of the Big Hitters are also using Work Computer as well as Other Team Members and Friends and even Coin Mining Computers to to run under their Username"

I've been openly vocal over the years about my thoughts on Gridcoin. I won't be going there today.

"Maybe you should find a Poor Mans Hobby and collect cans in a Shopping Cart."
Gee harsh! I do collect can for a bit extra money thanks. Feel better?

When I made this comment - "There are some people I’m rooting for over others in this challenge but I’m just a spectator really" I was ACTUALLY meaning that I was rooting for FOR YOU over some other PG crunchers. My guess is you misinterpreted that sir.

I'm going to assume a bit of miscommunication here Mr Cavnaugh... although you did say that you've had posts moderated here before so perhaps you're just another grumpy, old retiree. I've seen a few of that lately around here (BOINC)

Goodluck.

I won’t be congratulation crunchers for being wealthy enough to buy all the best gear and find a heap of primes.

Unfortunately challenges here are in the stupid territory. I'm not trying to offend anyone here. Just stating opinion. Since it takes no skill and you can just throw money at this project, it leaves anyone out who doesn't have the money or want to spend thousands on 50+ computers and GPUs spending hundreds a month on electricity. I've given up on challenges a long time ago and try to crunch stuff that is not on the radar at the moment. Now this month long challenge had been appealing because it lasts so long but even crunching tens of thousands of units has no chance when others are doing 100,000's or even millions of units. Then throw in the random server unit sending scenarios and people abandoning thousands of tasks and it makes it even dumber. Unless you want to be just lucky or really want to just solve conjectures this stuff isn't for the casual user.

Aww c'mon bcavnaugh.... save some primes for the rest of us mate!! :p

I don't believe anyone is harming the process nor are they slowing progress down. In my opinion, this current TdP is actually doing more work than any other. I don't have the numbers to back that up and it's just my opinion.
Cheers Rick

I added something new on everyone's private user page (home.php). Enjoy!

"You should also set your project priority for PrimeGrid to 0 to eliminate BOINC's prefetch of tasks."

Where is this setting?

Having issues getting PPSE (LLR) v8.04 (mt) Task and because of this I am getting 3 Tasks Genefer 16 v3.21 (OCLcudaGFN16) One Running and 2 Waiting to Run. I am NOT seeing this Issue on any other Host Running Windows 10.

If it's in a different venue than the other systems then make sure that venue has Resource Share set to 0 instead of the default of 100.