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[Cancelled] Checker Request for GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache

[Cancelled] Checker Request for GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache
May 24, 2016 06:41PM
GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache

This has 2 parts -

One part is a standard points counter for a group of caches - 1 point per cache - each cache is counted only once
The second part awards 2 points per series - if all of the caches in a series have been found

Only question would be whether to include or ignore archived caches - perhaps the simplest solution would be to include archived caches in the found counts if found - however ignore archived caches in the series checks.

So if they found a cache but it has since been archived, they get credit for the find of the now-archived caches.
But they do not get penalized for not getting all of the caches in a series if some of the caches in the series are now archived.

Thanks in Advance,

- Paul J
Re: Checker Request for GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache
May 25, 2016 01:02PM
The checker cant know if a cache has been archived if you dont find i with the current API
So it is not possible to create a checker that looks for all nonaechives caches in a series.
Re: Checker Request for GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache
May 25, 2016 04:44PM
GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache

Revised:

This has 2 parts -

One part is a standard points counter for a group of caches - 1 point per cache - each cache is counted only once
The second part awards 2 points per series - if all of the caches in a series have been found

Only question would be whether to include or ignore archived caches - perhaps the simplest solution would be to include archived caches in the found counts if found - however ignore archived caches in the series checks.

So if they found a cache but it has since been archived, they get credit for the find of the now-archived caches.
But they do not get penalized for not getting all of the caches in a series if some of the caches in the series are now archived.

Based upon the above reply - the revised solution is to not list the archived caches in the check for the completion of the series - only check for non--archived caches in checking for the completion of a series - so those archived caches would just not be included in the tagging script for the series checks.

Consequently the checker will not care whether a cache has been archived or not. It will just have 2 groups of caches - one for single finds 1 point and the second group for the series checks for 2 points.

The person doing the tagging to list the caches will have to make the determination of which caches to include in each group.

Thanks in Advance,

- Paul J
Re: Checker Request for GC3FJDV - 2011 Best of NoVAGO Challenge Cache
June 22, 2016 12:48PM
Additionally, it's not very well defined what the series' are apart from the "Got?" series which appears to be completely archived now.

I tried making a checker based on finding at least 23 of the 42 specific caches listed on the challenge page, but five of the last ten finders have claimed additional points for completing series' and so came up as not qualifying. I won't put up such a checker without the CO's approval.
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