Asteroids@home vs. other projects

Yesterday I started crunching Asteroids tasks mainly so I can have a backup to keep my 3 mini-PCs busy (more on that below). I noticed when I checked BOINCStats that there are an incredible amount of users who have abandoned the project. I realized why, since each task only seems to give me about 50-60 credits for just under 2 hours of crunching. I plugged my data into Claude, which estimates that Asteroids only gives me 1/26th the credits per hour of Numberfields. Regardless, I'll keep crunching it.

My history is that I started with SETI in the 1990s. When that was retired I took on WCG tasks. Then they started becoming unreliable and I added Einstein. Einstein proved to be too demanding for my mini-PCs (i.e., too much heat). That's why I switched to Numberfields. So now it's just Numberfields and Asteroids.