In phase I there really wasn't a scoring system in place, it was just a simple one fold one point setup. At the time Howard saw no reason to complicate things by adding a difficulty factor for the various proteins to scoring. But now with phase II there is already a scoring algorithm so it seems like it would be fairly easy to add something that would scale the score according to the length of the protein.

Having said that, I actually like the mix of fast and slow proteins and the resulting affect that has on production. I think that it makes it more interesting.

And I am not just saying that because I had a hard drive on my farm die on the day of the changeover that has knocked out 8 2GHz+ processors. Though since I haven't got around to get things back up yet I am relieved that this is a slow protein.