For the UAT test, Tim programmed 1 point drop per spot for the Hardware boints (excluding the top 3 where the discrepancy is bigger). This is less for the final implementation. Nevertheless we can not assure same or more points for each hardware category or benchmark.
Secondly we will not work with even equal points (for some spots) in the top 20.
It still has to be competitive to rebench to climb up the ladder or gain a few points.
Take note that from spot 21 it will be with 0.1 or such increments in the final version.
For the super popular old hardware like the 3770K, hardware points might be less, but the gain of the new point system is noticeable with more modern hardware which is being benched by most benchers nowadays. Not sure if an ambient bencher would buy/bin this Ivy Bridge CPU for hardware points.
The fact is that the current system has so many errors in point calculation. The Point recalculation is not happening after spot 200 as the software is locked by the previous programmer. The algorithm that calculates in relation to the score of the first spot is such an atrocity and the load on the main server is crazy high.
It will never be perfect for everybody, but we have to get people more motivated to bench and reward those active ones.