you could change the scoring: take a complex formula that takes into account major impacts on low-scoring proteins but also small progress on proteins rated high: a combination of % growth, progression and absolute final scores. The time we guess the algorithm, we will work on all solutions.

Maybe it is really better to launch multi-start-puzzles not in a single puzzle, but like the CASPs as a,b,c,d.
Many scripts use the reset/restore (very)best functions, and it is hard to handle with another starting position if you already have brought one of them to high score.

Crashguard, the reason we stopped doing a,b,c,d puzzles (and instead created the new alignment tool where you can load the different templates yourselves) is because in the other 2 chats players mentioned that there we too many puzzles already.
Right now we have 3 puzzles up, 1 template and 2 denovo CASP targets. If we gave you a puzzle for each denovo Rosetta model, that would be 11 puzzles up right now!

This makes sense.
Then it would be helpful to clear the "very best" result.

As Dr Baker said:
"in general, we see players sometimes "piling up" too much at the best current solution"
[...]
"it is like gold-mining when everybody starts searching around the best current find but the mother-lode is somewhere else which hasn't been discovered yet"

So, if you play a multi-start or all-hands, and you've reached high score, you can't go back to the middle, only by loading another solution.
Or ... you can, but if you did some mistake at tweak/nudging, you can't do a reset.

Let me give an example:
You have played a start position through, resulting a score of 11,000.
You take another start position and improve it, resulting 10,750 points.
Then, you do a wiggle, get 10,800p and try to nudge at a sidechain, but it is the wrong one, making the score go back to 10,700.
Now you can't reset to the 10,800 state, because "restore very best" would take the solution with 11,000 points. It is unusable in the second turn.
If you had the abilitiy to clear the "very best" result at taking another start position, this won't have happened.
Sure, there is the possibility to use the undo bar, but it only has a limited amount of states, vanishing fast if you use some scripts.

That makes sense Crashguard.
You would then save your 11,000 point solution, "clear very best" and basically start over, right?

We will try to implement this soon.

Until then, hopefully you can use the quicksave slots for that 10,800 solution before trying a nudge or something.

That's right!
At the moment, I use regular save and quicksave slots indeed, to try another starting position or other alignments.
Maybe it's best to be asked to clear the "very best" result if you reset the puzzle itself, this would give not so much problems.

Thanks in advance!