It's only 6 years later :) https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC3TVEH/73597 Note that I've approximated the home country as the country with the most finds. Also, it's CPU intensive to find the very long country names, unless you have a very large number of country finds. The script will timeout in 45 seconds and return its progress, although, there are many short country naby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This still seems not completely thought out... Every month could potentially have 5 Sundays. Do you require all 5 to qualify? If not, then, if you found the first 4 in a month that has 5, that would still "qualify", even though you didn't have all the Sundays in that month, which is weird. In fact, even February can if it's a leap year (this happened in 2004, and will happen aby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Okay - 1. I've modified the script to put slashes between the fields 2. I've made it list all instances that you pass on (so eg. for you, it lists the two you cited), and also will list if you have more than 12 regions for the particular combo. 3. I've made it also print the country, date found and cache name for the qualifiers. 4. For the "failed" example, when I tby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
The "you passed the challenge" part was from the original script. Since the multi-test script does the "OK" thing before the criteria, it seems redundant, so I've removed that. Also, instead of saying row/column, it says whatever the axis field is now. So, here's the new output, which seems a little clearer: (https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=bmuzzin) has usedby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
In my extended version of the SameX / DifferentY script, you can make SameX a list, and then you need all the things in the list to be the same. So, this actually doesn't need a new script! Here's the checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA2KRC/73406 Test it out, and let us know.by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I just wrote a script that does checks on an X/Y grid... so I embedded it into my modified version of the Multi-test script... added a few extra parameters/fixes, and viola: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA2KRJ/73404 Note: If you have a type/size with a year that's incomplete, it shows cells where you have a find in yellow - if you pass the year with that type/size, it shows them inby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Okay, updated the checker with the correct types now (cut and paste from the other tag).by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I have retagged GCA202A here: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA202A/73380 Why oh why did I not find that REGULAR Virtual Cache when I was in Providence, RI?! :) I made a small modification to the script, so you can now output the list of finds to the log, so that it matches (closely) the output of the previously tagged script. If you want that enabled on the other two, that's veryby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
If you want GCA202A retagged, @vogelbird will have to do that, since they tagged it. Also - about your inquiry about requiring multiple finds per square - the new script already supports that. The following are available parameters in the tag: limit_per_cell -- number of entries in a cell, required for a passing cell. cell_limit -- number of passed cells you neby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Whoops... enabled it now.by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
While the one vogelbird posted does the job... but the output from the grid script I just wrote, (tagged differently for this challenge) is much more like the requested output: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9XA74/73369 Let us know which one you prefer, and we'll delete the other one.by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Okay, I fixed the types (I think). Also, I was obviously not being creating enough, and I've made it much easier to output the month names, instead of just the numbers. Please check it now, and let me know.by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Here it is: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA29HQ/73359 Subtle differences from you posted output: 1. I listed the number of finds you got in each cell, instead of just '1', which might be confusing. It only turns 'green' if you have the required number (which, in your challenge is just 1). 2. Each cell links to an example of the find - eg. you click on Traditional /by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I'll make a checker that gives nice output like the table shown. I might use this for the replacement for the one that got turfed. Gimme a few hours...by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
TL;DR: I've gotten my generic fizzy checker to a point where it should successfully determine whether somebody has passed your proposed challenge. Here's your the checker (says you pass - with the events all lumped together - and I don't - boohoo): https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9VVN4/73335 --- I've created a new script for this, with aims to be a completely genericby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
For those wondering - I figured it out - if the 'fields' parameter passed into GetFinds contains an array as one of the entries... opps.by bmuzzin - Script development
That cache was published in 2015, before the new rules came into effect (in 2016).by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
It can be any length of time. Usually you wouldn't refer to a cache as lonely unless it's been a significant amount of time (for example a year), but technically any cache that hasn't been found today is one day lonely.by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
The rules are somewhat ambiguous - at least some of them. HQ also changes what they decide is acceptable, without changing the posted rules, or notifying anyone. It's unfortunate for those trying to come up with challenges, and for those making checkers, but it's their prerogative. I had one of my own, and seen another that I logged recently be archived by HQ, because they were notby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
A lonely cache is exactly what you were describing- a cache that hasn't been found for a certain amount of time (usually a year).by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Not acceptable under rule 14. Positive Challenge Criteria -Competition rather than achievement. Examples: challenges based on "First to Finds" or lonely caches are competitions. https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
We recently had a challenge rejected by HQ, because there were too many criteria. They cited rule #5: The challenge requirements should be simple, and easy to explain, follow and document. A long list of rules or restrictions may prevent publication. For that particular challenge, they said they would only accept 5 different criteria. Unfortunately, the rules about challenges are sufficientby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This challenge is not allowed. https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206 "4. Source of criteria. Challenge cache owners must demonstrate that there are plenty of qualifying caches to meet the challenge at the time of publication." Since you require 4 specific caches to be found, that's obviously not "plenty ".by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
I'm developing a script for a generic mixed fizzy... but it seems no matter what I do, I get an error *after* the return of the final table. (Not sure if this can be seen without enabling it): https://project-gc.com/Challenges//72944 Error message Backend errors Error 2, lua_callbacks.php:260 Illegal offset type in isset or empty Any idea why this would happen? Thanks!by bmuzzin - Script development
Time limiting anything (eg. a number in one day) isn't allowed based on the challenge rules: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206 "9. Time-Limited. Time-limited caching: as in some number of finds per day, week, month, or year. Examples: Busy Day, 50 finds in a day, 500 finds in a month, etc."by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Might take me a long while to get out there to find it :)... I might even qualify by then!by bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It is a bug. The type check per continent (which you don't use in this challenge), was checking that you needed *more* than the required types. If you don't supply the type requirement, it defaults to one - eg. you just need one type on that continent, which if you have a find you will have. However, since it was using >, instead of >=, you actually needed two to pass. jacqmansby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Well that took a bunch longer than I expected to write! :) Something about the ordering was confusing me, but I think it's correct now. Here's the link: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA2J4J/73252 It seems to agree with your posted results. It confirms that I don't qualify. Note that it prints out all the finds in a country that passes, even if you didn't need that manby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
@vogelbird - I'm not really seeing how it can be extended (easily) to support this... because you'd need two levels of sameCRC, with a 'countdown'. But, each time you ran the sameCRC from the higher level (eg. the continent level), you'd just get returned the same country that always passes for each subsequent step. Unless I'm missing something - if you've got aby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I've written a checker for this challenge here: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5864R/73195 I was trying to modify an existing script, but the "5 mountains with together at least 20,000 metres height on at least 4 continents" condition is just too hard to get into a multi-checker condition (although I did extend my multi-checker script to include elevation filters and sumsby bmuzzin - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)