Hey All ^^
This badge Collecting is strange thing within charity. Yes, I Call it charity, we buy hardware, and pay Our elecricity bill. As bonus we can hang out With the coolest guy's ( Us), and we get credits and badges.
I have a Whole lotta fun doing this, much thanks to the team With the same ideals and moral aspect as my own.
Once in a while, I get's very determined on acheiving one badge in particular, but sometimes, they are unreachable, atleast within a reachable timespan.
I don't Reach for no 100billion badge. I beleive in short term acheiveable goals.
However, the other day, from Pogs I got this Voyager2 badge. For me, this badge was truly the coolest badge I've ever seen, and I was just as surprised as proud when I got the msg for acheiving this.
In the Pogs description of this Trophy, they said "It's a little bit slower than No. 1" So I checked it out, and found they had a Voyager1 Trophy too, Oh noo it's even cooler than No. 2.
I got kinda eh... "interested" in that one.
Turned out, it has been awarded only 61 times ever. Only 61 users has acheived this trophy, oh.. not my League at all.
In my "Interest of this trophy" I went back on the Storage room of my work. I have stashed away a Whole lotta stuff as Garbage. I looked trough it, and I came across a stack of old Think Vantage computers. I noticed a small sticker on some of them, "Intel Core i3" together With "Win7".
Hmmm.. Those are most crunchable aren't they?
After much hazzle, I got Three of those up'n runnin' 4 threads each, not the fastest, but they hummed happy chewing pogs.
The Voyager Trophy's are very Nicely put together.
 
Oh, btw, we have a POTM coming up, Our first POTM. It will be very interesting to see how this will turn out.
We have Khali's great pillaging raids, so we'll se how the POTM turns out.
However, Challenges are fun.
 
Because of the POTM, I'll tell a little about the POGS trophy's.
POgs deal trophies out pritty roundhanded, atleast in the beginning lol.
So, I'll show what they mean.
First of all, they Call their badges for trophy's, and they are devided into divisions.
First you have the "Storage War's" division.
 
Looking like this:
 
 
This baby is for reaching XXX Credits.
Then there are the "Astronomers" division.
They are for acheiving a special amount of credits. A number who means something for astronomers, nevertheless, they look good too:

 This one is called:
"The Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt"
The number of credits match something who probably is assotiated to the Noble Professor Schmidt.
 
Then you have "The Elementals"
All know Our elementals? Good^^
Those are credit based trophy's. Those are they who come as you proceed at Pogs. They are the ones you see in Your "Dashboard" at Pogs, as "Credits to og untill your Next trophy"
They look like this, With their elemental name and number:

Then there is the "Daily Planet's" division of trophy's.
Most trophy's and badges from other project's are from acheiving credits.
This can be acheived from having a Whole lotta hardware, or a Whole lotta patience.
This division, is from RAC (Recent Average Credit)
No matter how long you crunch, no matter how many credit's you acheive... For some reason, Pogs RAC move sloowly, and those are hard to get:
Here are a couple of "Daily Planet" Trophy's.
This is the first one you get:

This is the Mercury, and as you move up:
The Kupier Belt" is acheivable:

 
Now for the NeXT division, the "T2 Trophies".
Those are earned for acheiving/ passing a special Scientific number.
Like the one I got the other day. I acheived in credit's the number of Pi:

We carry on^^
Then there are "Evolution of the Star"
Those trophes are earned according to how long (How many actual days) you have crunched pogs, and they look like this:
  
This baby is "The Red Giant" and is acheived for Processing Pogs for xx days.
Now, just a few more^^
Now we have the "Voyage trough the Messier Catalogue"
They are for how many Galaxies you have processed at pogs.
They look like this:
 
Nice one isn't it?
 
Ok, now I have walked you trough the current divisions of Pogs trophy's, hoping you will have a better understanding of what they mean as they reign upon you in Our upcoming POTM
 
Ok.... Now for something for you to acheive in Our POTM, I Challenge you
 
I'm utterly proud of bringing this one home to Our "Club House" and in posession of team EVGA
 
 
Good People of EVGA Crunchers, let me present the POGS ultimate RAC trophy, The Voyager1
This is the sixty second Voyager1 acheived, ever.
Bring home some more guy's
 
 

^^ Excellent writ-up and work. Thank you for you contributions! 

Orange_1050
 
Not so many in one post, but I did get a  Amethyst badge from project The Riesel Problem (Sieve) and a new Bronze for Seventeen or Bust tasks.
 
I do like the info that theSkyNet site has for each Trophy, some are fun and some are sad and some will make you happy.
 

Skylab (110,779 cr)
On the 11th of July 1979, 16:37 UTC, NASA space station Skylab entered the atmosphere to mostly burn up safely -  but some of Skylab's remnants landed south of Perth, Western Australia near a town called Esperance, who then fined NASA $400 for littering! (Trophy suggested by hokeyWB).
 
This one killed Pluto.

Eris (68,000 RAC)
Eris, otherwise known as the Pluto toppler. Its discovery by astronomers in 2005 started off the whole 'Pluto: is it really a planet?' thing. We're so glad, welcome to the Solar System, Eris. And hey, look at you with the 68,000 Recent Credits (RAC) today, amazing work!
 
 Astronomers
As they say below you get one if your points match the numbers like 26,093 and 1,987.

The 'Professor Peter Quinn' (26,093 cr)
We asked Peter for a good number for a trophy, and this is what he gave us. Props if you can work out its significance to Earth, the picture might be a clue!
 

The 'Professor Bryan Gaensler' (1,987 cr)
We asked Bryan to give us a good number, he looked down at what he was working on and gave us 1987, can you figure out why? The picture is a big clue!
 
My Trophy Cabinet

bcavnaugh 
Not so many in one post, but I did get a  Amethyst badge from project The Riesel Problem (Sieve) and a for Seventeen or Bust tasks.

Gratz on the PG badges bcavnaugh Amethyst is a mighty fine color, bronze too.
 
As everyone agrees, badges and trophies are of sub importance within crunching, however, since they are there in the first place, I think it's ok to have some fun with them. Like collecting, show off and such.
When that said, I think Skynet is the one who has put the most effort into this. (WuProp has done some homework too) Way of presentation and the graphics.
There are one more thing I'd like to mention regarding the Skynet Pogs.
What one has to achieve to earn either this or that trophy, they keep secret. This is a special approach from Skynet to sustain some kind of excitement and surprises around this trophy thing.
Since I'm a big fan of democracy, I just wanted to hear you guy's out regarding this. When we earn a trophy from Skynet, we most certainly present it, but what exactly amount of credits you have to earn, could be kept for yourself.
I'd be more than happy to reveal what you have to earn, but to not spoil the excitement for the others, a PM would be great.
For example, today I got this: (I actually did)

This is the M81, in the "Voyage in the Messier Catalogue" division, this was earned by processing galaxies
 
Earlier, when I have presented Skynet Trophies, I have revealed the numbers, so this is only a thought.

Orange_1050
As everyone agrees, badges and trophies are of sub importance within crunching, however, since they are there in the first place, I think it's ok to have some fun with them. Like collecting, show off and such.
When that said, I think Skynet is the one who has put the most effort into this. (WuProp has done some homework too) Way of presentation and the graphics.
There are one more thing I'd like to mention regarding the Skynet Pogs.
What one has to achieve to earn either this or that trophy, they keep secret. This is a special approach from Skynet to sustain some kind of excitement and surprises around this trophy thing.
Since I'm a big fan of democracy, I just wanted to hear you guy's out regarding this. When we earn a trophy from Skynet, we most certainly present it, but what exactly amount of credits you have to earn, could be kept for yourself.
I'd be more than happy to reveal what you have to earn, but to not spoil the excitement for the others, a PM would be great.
For example, today I got this: (I actually did)

This is the M81, in the "Voyage in the Messier Catalogue" division, this was earned by processing galaxies
 
Earlier, when I have presented Skynet Trophies, I have revealed the numbers, so this is only a thought.

So true, I think that is why Crunching is so fun.
In July we should see a lot of new Trophies from Skynet Pogs for Team EVGA.

bcavnaugh
So true, I think that is why Crunching is so fun.
In July we should see a lot of new Trophies from Skynet Pogs for Team EVGA.

Thx Bro I expect a heavy Trophy shower in July

New Jade badge from project Generalized Fermat Prime Search Today.
I also joined Seti@Home Today

bcavnaugh
New Jade badge from project Generalized Fermat Prime Search Today.
I also joined Seti@Home Today

Wow, gratz on that one. I've been chasing this color on my GFNWR for some time, and it seems I have to give it even more time.
One 760 uses 200hrs on one GFN so some patience is required

Orange_1050

bcavnaugh
New Jade badge from project Generalized Fermat Prime Search Today.
I also joined Seti@Home Today

Wow, gratz on that one. I've been chasing this color on my GFNWR for some time, and it seems I have to give it even more time.
One 760 uses 200hrs on one GFN so some patience is required

Indeed and they are worth over 603,000 Points for Generalized Fermat Prime Search (World Record) tasks.
I think my GTX 780 took about 112 hours each and my R9 290X too about 220 hours each.
Generalized Fermat Prime Search (Short) tasks are about 30,874 Points.
I lucked out and received 5 of the World Record ones. 
And take for ever in Pending credit status. up to a week.
I still have 1 Completed, waiting for validation and 1 Completed, validation inconclusive
 

Congratulations bill1024!

 You earned Silver badge from project Sierpinski / Riesel Base 5 Problem (LLR)


I think a few of us have this one coming.