Great, grand-fathering the old one sounds a good plan.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I've created the following tag https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC3WQT5/31483 It is current configured to allow the following characters: 0123456789.,/\#*- and <space> This works for 9 out of the last 10 logs. It doesn't work for TresHntrs who have logged a find which also contains % and ? If you think these (or any other punctuation characters) should be included let mby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Now the list is short (only 4 votes needed currently) it isn't so bad. Its the split between where the votes are needed, votes are sufficient that most interests me (colour highlighting when not enough confidence would be another option), but if the number stays small as it is now the investment probably isn't worth much.by mole125 - Checker news
I've noticed there are a number in the list which are archived which possibly could be excluded, but then we seem to be making good progress so it may not be worth the effort.by mole125 - Checker news
The good news is that once they are done there shouldn't be much more to do - the rules are much stricter about where challenge can be used. The problem is when it was unregulated and the fact 'challenge' is a pretty good synonym to describe certain classes of puzzles. There are 393997 unknown caches in the world so the percentage that had the word challenge in is pretty low (thby mole125 - Checker news
Great, that sounds close enough then for the sort order and you are right resorting would not be nice. Hopefully it won't take long for us all to get through the backlog if we all take a bash and then keeping on top of newly identified caches should be pretty straight forward.by mole125 - Checker news
Fantastic, will make things much easier for everyone. I've just notice a very minor UI bug - the statistics (particularly your upvotes/your downvotes) don't get updated on the page when you perform an up/down vote - only when the page is refreshed. May be worth having the fields recalculate on the press of the vote buttons. Also what is the sorting on the page? It may be worth grouby mole125 - Checker news
It's looking really good. I've been thinking about this style of challenge and I'd suggest supporting a variation of 'Cross type challenges. So for instance require a East/West chain across the county of Cambridgeshire (UK) would have the requirements: a) the first cache in the chain is in either the county of Bedfordshire or Northamptonshire b) the last cache in theby mole125 - Script development
Are you saying that groundspeak are saying the actual tag config must include the list of countries not just the cache page and the checker script? This seems odd as there is no requirement for that to happen with any other type of checker - you can have a bespoke script with no tag level config at all.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Its worth noting you can do continents if you want for another challenge. You just need to explicitly specify your definition of which country is in which continent. I'd recommend that you use the list already in vogelbirds checker. You can then specify you must have found a cache in one of the countries of n different continents which meets the cache requirements. Looking at the scripby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I'll have a think about it but nothing particularly springs to mind, partly because most things had already been done before the moratorium and partly because the new rules place so many limits on what is allowed. My favourite challenge has probably been the 13 steps challenge as it had an interesting set of different criteria to be completed on different days - which made the game muchby mole125 - Script development
Its a very good point and as a native english reader it does scan better. I've add them as suggestions for the english language translations of the site - though I've no idea what the process is for project-gc to pick up translations and actually use them.by mole125 - Miscellaneous
I'd suggest rewording it to be clear: To have attended a CITO in every calendar month (regardless of year). I think the reviewer probably misinterpretted the original phrasing to mean you have to attend in every month of a particular calendar year (which would be a streak).by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
As you have guessed the answer is yes it would run foul of that rule - particularly as a few challenge caches do have puzzle elements in them. There are also bonus caches which generally aren't 'proper' puzzles either. The best criteria to do this would be find 1000 puzzle caches where the published coordinates are not the final coordinates (though that would still include bonuby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
I agree ultimately eventually it is attainable, the question is it within a reasonable time. The similar precedent is that it has been deemed that 366 calendar date challenges aren't acceptable as the requirement of a find on the 29th of Feb is too restrictive and not feasibly achievable by a new cacher (which personally I feel is a shame and wouldn't have been what I have decided). Basby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
I'm very surprised it is acceptable as it seems to be rewarding/premoting a negative aspect of the game (caches being archived) and is not attainable by new cachers . A new cacher starting to the game/or county would have to find more than 100% of the available caches when they start.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Unfortunately new degree checkers aren't allowed as they count as 'user-defined mapping polygons' which are no longer permitted. It is worth reading the rules here: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
'cache owner’s primary control' arethe key words here. At least in the uk it is accepted that national series with caches by a large number of owners (e.g. the church micro series) are acceptable as the contents of the bookmark list isn't under the cache owners primary control (particularly when the bookmark list is maintained by someone else).by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
If there is a motorway mayhem bookmark list (but I don't think there is) and if you formulated the challenge to find motorway mayhem's in n different counties then you may be able to get it past your local reviewer. But you'd need to check whether a reliable bookmark list exists and talk with the reviewer before starting any further work on it.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Unfortunately this also goes against the rules - you aren't allowed to have challenges based upon names or GC codes. I strongly recommend you read through the full list here: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
But if you want to know how close you are anyway GSAK can (relatively easily) help you here. If you import your caches, select to show the 'degree' column and set your 'centre-point' to your home location then it will let you see the degree each cache is in (and hence which ones you still need).by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
You can however restate the challenge to find all the difficulties on one calendar date (e.g. people pass if they have have 1-4.5 on 1/1/2016 and then the difficulty 5 on 1/1/2017.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
I think you may need to confirm the requirements of the challenge. Both checkers above are requiring 2 caches out of the 102 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain but excluding Northern Ireland . From your request it looks like you just want the counties within England, which in geocaching terms is made up of the following regions: East Midlands: 6 Eastern England: 6 London: 2 Northeast Englby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Your script can't be working properly, if you enter "church micro suffolk" into the project-gc wildcard search then it finds 500+ caches (some archived etc) most if not all will be on the church micro bookmark lists.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
There's a variety of caches that include church micro requirements and UK reviewers are usually fine with them being part of the criteria (but past decisions don't guarantee the same answer again). They can be checked by being in one of the following bookmark lists: {name="Church Micros 1 to 499", guid="b9597df5-b3c8-42ff-bab7-96a965e7f026"}, {name="Churchby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Presumably by 'neglected' you mean hasn't been found for a year? Unfortunately it isn't possible for a checker to find the details of the previous logs and therefore it can't work this out.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
The conditions of this challenge are very special and specific and so it is going to require a new script to be written to support it. New challenges like this are now prohibited so it would require writing a one-off script. You may get lucky if one of the script writers finds this challenge interesting (e.g. they live near it or are bored) but I am afraid there is a chance no one will pick up thby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
No, but I think there are multiple definitions of 'lonely' caches - the request here appears to be lonely as defined by isolation - how far from the next cache it is.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Not easily no, firstly getting the next nearest cache isn't possible, but the second problem is how do you define it when you take caches being archived into account. Presumably you'd really only want to consider the next closest cache that was published and not archived at the time the cache was found by the cacher, which is going to get expensive to calculate fast.by mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
There are existing challenges that do this. However before setting the challenge please read the following FAQ: http://project-gc.com/Home/FAQ#4179902386 The key thing to realise is the system doesn't know the height of the cache. All it knows the average height of the ground level in either a 30x30m or 90x90m square within which the cache coordinates exist. If the cache is underground, oby mole125 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)