"if possible I would love if challenge's criteria include the time limit of 1 week to do it" FYI, all time limits are against the new guidelines.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
TeamFlashSTL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think, I have to get used to the new rules... > 8-) :S It's actually not new, but I have seen quite a few cases where the reviewers has missed or ignored it. It might also be that they haven't seen "home country" as serious as "home coordinates". But with the old rules, I woby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
TeamFlashSTL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I fully understand Bergfex2000's intention...:)-D > But why not change the ALR's into a exclusion of > the profiles home country? Would this hit the > intention? Challenges are not allowed to be based on home locations, and then neither home country in any way. So excluding "home couby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
My guess is that it requires a new script then, which puts you back to square zero. But I am not 100% certain. You could wait for feedback from Vogelbird.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
86 was including GC6F493 which is an event cache. To me your request isn't clear if events are allowed to be included in the D5+T5 count. But it's clear they are not included in 5 cache types. Vogelbird has excluded them from both. It seems like he can change that if you didn't mean so.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It's technically not a problem as long as someone provides the data of which counties are neighbors with each other, a connection list. Similar requests needing the same data (but other countries) has been asked a few times in the forum already. There is no script ready that does this. So it's best to create the list in a format that a developer would like, to make it easier for himby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It's correct that you have found 31 D5 and 64 T5. But since some of them are 5/5 (both D5 and T5) the sum is only 86. Do you really want 5/5 to count twice? That might require some work. I am not sure what magic vogelbird can provide for that.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
We have just released a new feature for the forum which we are beta testing. It's only available for the "Checker request" forum, and that's also the plan. Every new post gets its subject prefixed with in blue. Moderators that answers the post can choose a new status for the topic. I hope the statuses are self explanatory. The idea is that it should be easier to get anby magma1447 - Checker news
I'll try to elaborate on what vogelbird said. To publish a challenge you need to fulfill it yourself. Since you don't have 25 yourself it doesn't make sense to make a tag for that, unless you have plans to improve your own stats first.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Jakuje Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You probably don't have permission to clone the > tags. What cache do you want to create tag and > from which tag? Jakuje, by the way, Clone tag is a new function. Everyone should have access to it. It was just that it didn't work properly from all views. A fix will be rolled out later today.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
I created a pastebin of the 254 countries. http://pastebin.com/F8zh49teby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
There are many countries that doesn't obviously belong to a specific continent. Vogelbird asked about a few of them. For a checker to be created this needs to be defined by the cache owner. From the top of my head I can list another three: * Turkey * Egypt * Russia Greenland isn't too obvious to me either.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Press "Use checker" first and clone from in there. It's a bug that it's not working where you are trying to. We are looking into that.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Bergfex2000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this kind of request to difficult? Our reviewer > was quite fast again and is waiting for the > checker now. Me too, of course. So please help! :) > Thanks a lot in advance! :) It's not super hard. I am sure someone will get around to it. The thing is that many challenges are the same asby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Vogelbird, as I understand it... The cacher needs to find 9 geocaches 50 meters below sea level. Of those 9, there has to be at least two different cache types. (trad+multi, trad+myst, trad+earth, trad+webcam ...). Only the example mentions the exact types of EC+Webcam. My understanding is that any two types works, as long as it's at least two types.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Can we remove this post as a duplicate of the other? (I am aware of that the forum didn't show posts properly the last hours, due to the database maintenance)by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
You should run this by your reviewer first. In my opinion, you are breaking two of the guidelines. 1) A challenge can not be based on a percent of finds in a county, it has to be a fixed number. 2) You can not exclude Challenges since that is a cache named attribute only. I am less certain about this on, first because it's an exclusion. But I got denied publishing a "meta challenge&by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Ah, I get it now. Maybe it was just me who didn't understand it before. Technically it's not a problem. I don't think there is a (simple) script ready that works for this. Either it has be one of those very generic that, I don't know them very well, or a new has to be created. I am sure someone will help you.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I have read this multiple times, including the posts here. I don't really understand what the challenge is. I am afraid you are not getting the response you should due to that. An example might help.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I have discussions with Target about this. Two new API methods has been implemented to handle this, but we both felt that it would be unlikely that a challenge like this would be published. It turned out we were right, the reviewer did not want to publish the challenge that caused this topic. The API methods still exists, but are not in the documentation yet. There are old challenges that tby magma1447 - Method requests
While not experiencing exactly the same issue, we couldn't get the download source to work either. A fix has been made in our development environment, and we hope for a release later today.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Just a note of Australian polygons at Project-GC. Project-GC uses official government data from http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html for Australia. It hopefully don't get more accurate than that. If the geocaches has other information at Geocaching.com, Google Maps and so on, it's very likely to be wrong in those ends. Google Maps is almost always wrong, just aby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
The 360-challenge checkers are very special. To get a fully featured checker for those you will need to contact Project-GC's support. There was recently added a special note about them in the READ FIRST in this forum. The support team will need to know: * The center point (N39º 20.738, W077º 08.118) * The area (Maryland) The usual case for such challenge to work is that it requires 8by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
FYI, I am currently working on a new related function. "Clone tag". It will be yet another button when viewing a checker page. It will open a modal and ask for a GC-Code. The tag will then be clone, with the exact same configuration, but with the new GC-Code. This should make it very easy for users to add tags themselves for very simple challenges that exists elsewhere. There willby magma1447 - Checker news
The checker has no cache-name. It will use the name of the GC-Code you provided once Project-GC finds the geocache. The counters can not be reset. You will notice that all challenges being published in the future will have a few green and red. It's likely the reviewers will run a few names in them.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It is very easy to create such challenge checkers. But those creating them would strongly prefer if you provide the GC-Codes first. You can create your challenges without adding them into the review queue.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
75% of an area is not allowed with the new guidelines. But I assume it would be ok if it's an optional way of completing the challenge and that an allowed way (100 finds) is provided as well. Creating a checker for 100 finds in a specific region is easy. Creating a checker for 100 finds OR 75% probably requires some developing, I don't think there is a script ready for that. It isby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Both mine and Targets should give you that. You can test-run them on different users, those you know fulfill and those you know don't. Our outputs probably differ, choose the one you prefer.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
If the polygons exists in for example OSM, it's doable, but probably quite a lot of work. USA also has the Tiger database which is free. I am unsure if it has city level data though. But again, it might be quite a lot of work. But it all comes down to that the CO has to define exactly what a city is (where the borders are). It's great that you provided a list of names though. That�by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
