EVE General Discussion

I just wanted to give my thoughts regarding the opinions that the results will be garbage and its just a click fest to get isk.


If your accuracy is below 50%, you get an image where the answer is already known. Get that wrong, you stay below 50%, and you get another known image. Obviously no scientists are going to bother looking at those. Button mash, and your accuracy is going to drop pretty fast, so not only will no one see your results, you'll also end up not getting any rewards.


Then there's the 'match the general consensus' players. I'm fairly sure that those images with a high consensus will be looked at by an experienced scientist. If he agrees, then yay, everyones accuracy goes up, if he disagrees, everyones score goes down. Those players just hitting the 'consensus' answers are, again, going to drop below 50% - it just takes longer.


Eventually - with the thousands of samples submitted every day - the images that 'rise to the top' are going to be those that have both a high consensus, and have been submitted by accurate participants. Win-win for the scientists :)


Also, if you're at 50% accuracy (an 'average' participant) you get 50,000isk per submitted image You have to submit 20 images getting at least half of those correct (to stay 'average') to earn 1m isk ......... no ones going to get rich on that.

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes when you choose a selection and go to the screen that shows what the consensus has been, it'll change what you chose? I noticed this a few times and at first thought I'd screwed up and just miss-clicked, but I've since confirmed that it has happened. It seems to happen randomly so I don't have any before and after photos to prove it unfortunately, I may try to take some random screen pics to see if I can catch it. Basically the green check mark shows up in places other than what I'd selected, and not the selections I've made were checked.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this as well?

My only complaint with Project Discovery is that the program window stops loading pictures every two or three submissions.

Other than that, I rather enjoy seeing exactly how much of my University education I still remember.

It does happen, and from what I've heard, it's due to too many ppl playing/more than servers can handle. I honestly don't know what is saved as your answer though.

Up to 73.5% :)

Is it just me, or have the number of control slides increased? I had three out of something like 15 slides just now. That's not a big sample, but it was a little weird.


It seems to show the selections you chose on the previous slide. My completely unfounded belief is that it's caused by the client timing out while it waits on the % results from PD.

CCP have said it submits whatever you had actually chosen, and that seems mostly consistent at least with practice.
And yes they changed the slide ratio

We're doing happy dance in the lab about the AMAZING number of people participating (of which the majority are doing their best) :)

Wait, you actually get rewarded for getting it wrong? Please tell me no, because that would be insanely ********.

I never had one of those "Consensus"-pictures, so I guess constant failure isn't the kind of consistency the project wants.

But I'm OK with this now, my initial excitement has cooled down and I've moved on to other things. Right now I'm willing to do 1-2 cell probes every time I log into my industry-alt, but only because the mini-game is still fun, even without compensation.

Mark as abnormal and we'll take a look at it and remove it. It's not that it's not loading, the image is broken (someone stopped the microscope too soon).