Yip, I agree with John.

If you are punishing people with too high a DNC score, then the best solution is to let them discard more DNCs. Are you rewarding sailing ability or just the guy who has nothing better to do on a Sunday morning meanwhile the guy who works 1 Sunday in 4 never stands a chance.

I have to say I've never really been a fan of "X races to qualify" because I'd be far more tempted to just make the discards "number of races - X".

I suspect there are relatively few clubs where the racing is so amazing that sailors are desperately vying for the prize of their series cup. 

I think there is definitely merit in not scoring DNS and DNF the same as DNC - credit for trying. That said I hate DNS as a Race Officer ... How on earth do you think I know I captured very sail number that was somewhere close to the start. 

Looks like several scoring systems allow for it.  You will find the instructions for how to do it on RacingRulesOfSailing.org here.

This may be relevant =>>>   https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/posts/5752-minutes-advantage-formula-for-pursuit-races-based-on-phpf-hcp

Yup, Case 67 settles this explicitly in a W/L collision causing damage to a non-racing boat, it does not explicitly deal with the amount of damage caused being a conflict since in this case the rule 69 implications removes that discission.  I can't find a case where monetary damages were seen as a conflict of interest in the way it's implied in this discussion.  But the definitions are poor for several things including "damage" vs "major damage", and major damage isn't even a requirement, only that it may have caused major damage. so there is always room for interpretation.    

Wassup Niko!   I heard you might be doing the Lipton with Cole.  Epic line up of competition. See you there. At least two of the jury are IJs that read these threads so ......I agree with everything.
Guess that means you chose Liptons over champion of champions. It will be really great to see you.