Are you sure its player enthusiasm to contribute to Project Discovery, or their enthusiasm to screw it up with poor identifications while earning ISK?

Due to incredibly high load and unprecedented demand,

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.

The problem is in the mean time we are getting penalised in accuracy for disagreeing with people taking the easy option and not reading descriptions properly.

The problem is in the mean time we are getting penalised in accuracy for disagreeing with people taking the easy option and not reading descriptions properly.

I was not aware we are actually contributing to real science research in game.

kudos CCP, Now have something to do when I'm docked.

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.

I was not aware we are actually contributing to real science research in game.

kudos CCP, Now have something to do when I'm docked.

It's only contributing to science if the community as a whole is finding the right answers. Sadly they seem to be doing everything possible to give the most wrong answers possible, which undermines the entire purpose of the thing.

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

The problem is in the mean time we are getting penalised in accuracy for disagreeing with people taking the easy option and not reading descriptions properly.

How exactly does the Community Consensus work? It all added to 135%, am I wrong in thinking that was a display bug?

I had a good laugh over the sample image being identical to the example of Endoplasmic recticulum yet still only 62%

http://i.imgur.com/ezqmorI.jpg

Each number is an independent figure showing what percentage of people rated that image as having that property. Since an image can have more than one property it's not going to sum to 100% normally.

Don't know why I assumed that particular image was only Endoplasmic recticulum

That explains it, Thanks

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