I have confirmed that the challenge script is generally working - however produces odd results starting at msweetnw's 263rd find which is, I suspect, the first occurrence of a qualifying cache. I don't have much time to delve into this, so will take a few days. Won't be long...by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Looking into it tonight...by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
All done: <a href="https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8GFFF/46876"><img src="https://cdn2.project-gc.com/Images/Checker/46876" title="Project-GC Challenge checker" alt="PGC Checker"></a> Note that the mask and snorkel attribute shows as a diver is some places.by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
On to it...by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
All done :-)by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
No, that was me. I have enabled it now. Cheers, Tomby the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This should do the job: <a href="https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8GE96/46850"><img src="https://cdn2.project-gc.com/Images/Checker/46850" title="Project-GC Challenge checker" alt="PGC Checker"></a>by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Working on it...by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Sorry, challenges based on cache names are no longer permitted. See challenge guidelines here: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=206by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Checker created: <a href="https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8G6TA/46679"><img src="https://cdn2.project-gc.com/Images/Checker/46679" title="Project-GC Challenge checker" alt="PGC Checker"></a>by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Could someone point me to PGC's checker rules please.by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Checker system does not know about towns. The best it could do is find caches that have the town name in their cache title.by the Seagnoid - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Seems unlikely that the total count of states could be added, as the checkers only work with finds. In other words, you are asking the checker to know about information that is not included in the cache finds. A checker that looks for a number of counties in a region (eg states of the USA) would have to be preloaded with the county counts of every region of every country, and then edited should aby the Seagnoid - Miscellaneous
Yes! Set them to 1/1! Why didn't I think of that?by the Seagnoid - Checker news
The use case for lab caches has already been set - by geocaching.com. GC treats lab caches as "just another cache" as far as its statistics go, and that is how project-gc should treat them. Lab caches should be considered any time the type of cache is not relevant, such as streaks, caches per country, top finds per day, distance from home, longest slump etc, as this is exactly how GC trby the Seagnoid - Checker news
I had a request to modify one of my scripts, to limit it to specific sizes. The easiest way is to add the "Filter" parameter in the tag, allowing to filter on sizes, terrains, difficulty, etc. At that point even though I can't see any reason why anyone would want to use it, I am now adding filter to all of my checkers, and also excluded types. A side benefit is that country is nowby the Seagnoid - Script development
With the release of the latest on the Geocaching Blog, https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2016/05/return-of-challenge-caches/, lab caches may not be used for Challenge caches. I agree with their reasoning, that they are too rare. Thus the entire discussion above is moot. However I would still like to see PGC importing details on lab caches if only to add their stats - another cache type, and for thoby the Seagnoid - Checker news
In many cases, including GC's statistics page, Lab Caches appears as just another cache type. Accordingly I would prefer to use option 3 - have an option on the getfinds. Lab caches can be identified by their missing information, so we can easily use the same getfinds method to deal with lab cache only challenges, or challenges that require different cache types that allow lab caches as oneby the Seagnoid - Checker news
Add 96 to get the negative attribute. So Recommended for kids = 6, Not recommended for kids = 102. Note that not all negative attributes are supported: 97 = No dogs allowed 102 = Not recommended for kids 103 = Takes more than 1 hour 104 = No scenic view 105 = Not a significant hike 106 = No difficult climbing 109 = Not available 24/7 110 = Not recommended at night 111 = Not avaiby the Seagnoid - Documentation