On proteins where conditions must be met to get a score, it would be useful to restore the best solution where the conditions were met. I've noticed that the highest scores I get on the BETA Conditions puzzle don't meet the conditions, and hitting restore best often causes me to lose my best solution that did met them.
Changing project.
Yeah – I've lost a couple of my top solutions this way. It's annoying.
Would you prefer another button, or to just replace the existing restore very best with this behavior?
Hello Seth,
I would recommend a "set very best" new button to solve this problem, for the following reasons :
1) when the foldit algorithms are wiggling a puzzle with conditions not met(cnm), occasionaly the protein will distort into a shape where the conditions are met, just for a fraction of a second. If you are eagle eyed you see the red line flash on and off across the score. If the "set very best" was automatic then you could have the bizarre situation of starting with a structure at 9000pts(cnm), ending with a structure at 9500pts(cnm) but with a "restore very best" at an arbitrary point somewhere between the two.
2) the problem also applies to "quest to the native" puzzles. Often, whilst distorting the backbone of the protein to match the ghost image, the closeness of the protien to the ghost is much better than previously, but the score is significantly lower. It would be usefull at this point to "set best score" to what is displyed on the screen. The benefit of this is that currently the "set recent best" functionality of the programme is unavailable for use as a development tool if it is being used to store the best matching shape (which is the only way to use the programme at present).
Obviously if you implement a "set very best" button its going to need a warning sign the size of a small planet,
Rgds
SteveB
I would prefer another button.
Another button,too.
Still waiting
A fix for this will be coming up soon!
May I also suggest a lua function for this new feature. If it isn't implemented now it will just be another feedback suggestion later. Might as well get it out of the way on the first shot. I'm sure the script writers will appreciate it