I think the general consensus is to avoid Credit New at all costs. It really is a terrible system for scoring. If you could get DNA a consistent run time, then I would say go with fixed credit. But right now there appears to be different duration needs.
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Travis, there is a CSG challenge going on right now and a couple of hours ago I lost 150,000 credits in that challenge. I'm assuming it was your fix. I'm not really concerned about losing the challenge credits, but I do note that my credits didn't change at the CSG site. Had they gone down a like amount I'd have no credit for the work I've done since I joined. Something doesn't seem quite right yet.

Mine dropped 500K as I was over 1.2 Million. However, my ~700k is more accurate to where it should have been. My scores updated here accordingly. Just as others had mentioned, the sub project scores here did not reflect the DNA point inflation. So, perhaps that is where the confusion is?
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Going to credit new is a negative step for the project. Many will be discouraged by this. DNA credit now appears to be too low compared to subset and other projects that encourage participation by a more positive attitude towards credit offered.

What's going on?? I just started with BOINC. My 9500pts for CSG just dropped to 2500. That's crazy.

What's going on?? I just started with BOINC. My 9500pts for CSG just dropped to 2500. That's crazy.

Going to credit new is a negative step for the project. Many will be discouraged by this. DNA credit now appears to be too low compared to subset and other projects that encourage participation by a more positive attitude towards credit offered.

Compared to other projects I run, credit is too high.

Going to credit new is a negative step for the project. Many will be discouraged by this. DNA credit now appears to be too low compared to subset and other projects that encourage participation by a more positive attitude towards credit offered.

It has been credit new the whole time, it's just that for awhile there was a multiplier being applied to the DNA@Home credit that was being added to the combined total (however the credit for the DNA@Home total was not being multiplied).

The amount of time spent for a WU is pretty much deterministic on it's parameters however, so I can do fixed credit for the WUs. It just won't get done until I'm back from Reykjavik (so probably this weekend).

I guess the best way to determine the initial credit would be to look at the average run times for the different apps based on an average system and then propose the credit based on that.
On my account you will find a wide variety of systems from android tv boxes, pentium 4's, core2duo's, i5's, i7's and xeon servers. 3 different operating systems. Maybe some of my average run times would be a starting place ?

You might be the first person I've found saying credit new is too high. :)

Fixed credit has to be the way to go, equated to the amount of value to the project. Whether that be determined by file size or results. That means a true level playing field as faster computers produce more work and rightly earn more credit.

CreditNew is the worst system of all. Please change all the projects away from it at your earliest convenience.

A credit scoring system like the original Wildlife would be my favorite. I would definitely crunch DNA again if it were like that...

You need to be careful with Credit New system it uses a faulty benchmark system to determine the base credit. For instance in Numberfields the AMD rigs I have running (a 64 core 6276 running at 2900Mhz and a 48 core 63xx rig running at 3800Mhz) are faster than the 64 core 4650 rigs I have running at 3140Mhz. On an average the AMD rigs complete the WU's quite a bit faster but receive substantially less credit per hr of run time than the Intel rigs do. It was confirmed by Eric here at this link. http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/forum_thread.php?id=209#1097

Although I do not see this problem here at Citizens at least not from appearance anyway The 48 core 63xx AMD rig at 3800Mhz is the fastest rig I am running and is collecting the most points core for core.

Also YAFY Multi Threaded app had a problem with the credit system. http://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/forum_thread.php?id=160#666

Anyway from personal experience Credit New may not be the best choice of credit systems.

Also I do agree that DNA does deserve a premium due to the ram needed to run it and the the amount of writing to disk it does. I believe it has the potential to significantly shorten the life of the HD.