Re: Failed Script

Hoping someone might be able to provide some insight for me:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8QM41/51150

Whenever I run the checker on myself I get a "timed out" error. However when I run the checker on someone else ("captainmath" who consequently has nearly 4x as many finds as I do) it works.

Can anyone help me out and identify the problem?

thanks!

The script probably ends as soon as it finds a match. For you, it would run through every potential permutation checking before it concludes you don't qualify. Running through every possible permutation is taking longer than the timeout value. Even though captainmath has more finds, the script finds a valid solution before hitting the timeout.

Like sumbloke says the script ends if it finds a match.You might qualify for the challenge, you might not. My suggested fix is to add more attributes to some of the slots that have few options, it increases the chance that you qualify and that the script will be able to find a solution for you before it runs out of time.

For example the only attribute you have for D3/T5 is "Needs maintenance" on https://coord.info/GC6KNJW so that's a D/T-combination you would want to add some more attributes to either way. An other D/T that only has one possible attribute is your D4/T4.5 find of https://coord.info/GC5PV4B that has the challenge-attribute. If you log caches for these combinations that have multiple attributes it's more likely the checker finds a combination for you.

An other solution is to add more D/T-combinations of attributes that you have few combos from. This checker could be used to identify attributes you have few of, or if you want to manually work out if you qualify or what cache would be the best to log to qualify: https://project-gc.com/Challenges//58281