Re: GCA7G4E Find 4 types AND 6 from list in Mt Isa, QLD, Australia

Hi,

Requesting a checker for a garden variety challenge for Mount Isa, QLD, Australia.

Requirements:
In The Mount Isa LGA
1. Find caches of 4 types
AND
2. Find 6 caches out of the 12 oldest, using this bookmark list (or other solution) https://coord.info/BMC5CE3

Happy caching
Rickard

Here is the link https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA7G4E/76833

Please test and reply

Hi

My intent was to require that the cacher shall find caches of 4 types and 6 out of the 12 oldest.
The fist condition works ok but the second does not.
Only need to find half of the 12 oldest, prefer not to include archived as it will then get harder with time. If archived are to be included the list still has to include 12 active caches

Hope I am making myself clear

Cheers
Rickard

The archived caches are not required but the geocaching rule is that "Any older archived or disabled find overrides the current oldest.". That is the reason why archived caches, you found, are counted and shown.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2023 01:58PM by vogelbird. (view changes)

Hi,

Tested and it does not what I expect it to.
The cacher only needs to find 6 of the 12 oldest (including archived).
Testing the script I get fail for cachers that have found 8 or 9 of the 12 oldest, this should be a pass I only want the cacher to find 6 out of 12.
Sample:
Fail: You found 9 out of a required 12 the oldest 6 cache(s). This includes 1 archived oldest.

Hope this can be fixed

Happy caching

Can you send us a name so the scriptwriter can have a look what the problem is

Hi

Try BenM70
Or drrnrchr

Both should qualify but don't

Thank you
Rickard

Thanks, I notified the scriptwriter but I expect that it will take a while becuse he is living in a different time zone

I have retagged the challenge here -
https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA7G4E/77077

Tested the two users mentioned, and they both pass now.

@vogelbird - Turns out that the 'limit' and 'num' parameters were reversed in your tag - so it was trying to get you to find 12 of the oldest caches, but only retrieving 6 of them from the database (plus a bunch of archived ones). I've changed the script so that if num > limit, then it throws an error, so it'll be clearer if this happens in the future.

Thank you!

Works as expected