EVE General Discussion

Due to incredibly high load and unprecedented demand, Project Discovery has been taken offline temporarily whilst we work with Massively Multiplayer Online Science to stabilize the service.

MMOS are currently in the process of reinforcing their server infrastructure in the light of the EVE Community's enthusiasm to contribute to Project Discovery, and once this process is complete, we'll bring the service back online for everyone to enjoy.

We are hopeful that this will be resolved within the next 48 hours, at which point we'll be able to bring the project back online.

Apologies for any inconvenience downtime on the service might cause!

UPDATE: PROJECT DISCOVERY IS BACK ONLINE AFTER SOME INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES AND A PERIOD OF TESTING AND MONITORING OVERNIGHT.

The most surprising thing about this situation is that you all could underestimate how big of nerds Eve players are. That's a bummer though. I was looking forward to this during work today...

You did actually look at the results, didn't you, guys? People are just choosing the top-left option - "Nucleus" - and that's it.

Well, that is going to just give an initial quick buzz. When they only earn only a pittance for guessing, they will wander off and gank something not too challenging, because they are just not suited to anything that needs intelligence and effort.

The rest of the playerbase, will improve, get better rewards, and provide good data.

So yes, there will be initial overload, but the load will settle down, when the people flocking to the new shiny, who have nothing to offer the scientists, get bored.

So, for many this is a nice feature, the opportunity to do something useful, and the initial wave of people, would be hard to estimate other than it would overload things initially.

So everything is normal with the world. A little patience is fully justified.

I also get penalized for agreeing with the community.

There's no way to advance.

It is odd because I get near 100% of all test images correct.

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."

Could be interesting to entertain the possibility of using hierchical approach. Say, any given picture goes through the first cycle - "as is", and with only two choices - "the tested protein is in the nucleus" / "..outside the nucleus". With the option to choose both.
In the second cycle the picture is separated in two - in the first one the nuclei and all inside them are removed, and the user has only choices regarding the cytoplasm and the externalities; and in the second one only nuclei are left, and user chooses the how the tested protein is distributed inside them.
This might negotiate "the most obvious choice" approach to a certain degree.

Did it go GONG! when you took it offline?

Yup. Exact same process here.. stalls on step 1-9 of the tutorial, while loading the next step's image, at which point I just have to close the window and restart the tutorial from step 1. It doesn't matter how long I let the step try to load.

It isn't the community's problem. The system in its current form encourages to give not the right answers, but the answers which the majority would choose. In other words - user does not try to guess the right answer, but the opinion of the majority about what answer would be right. The former requires knowledge of some biology basics, the latter - mass psychology basics.

Havent looked at it yet, but cant they add a timer variable ? The more time you take to analyze, the better ranked it gets ?