Question

What are your thoughts on the return of challenge caches?

Comments

I haven't done any challenge caches and I have a hard time with them, so I am indifferent for now

Answer 1

I just hid one and contributed to the return. Hopefully finders will enjoy a unique challenge

Answer 2

The problem is, that challenge caches are not real challenges.

The guidelines say, that plenty of cachers have to fullfill the task.

So where is the challenge if many already can log it? It should be more like a "Task-Cache".

But in general I like to have challenges and work to fullfill them.

Answer 3

We love challenge caches. And the added limitations make sense from our point of view.

A lot of obviously faked streaks or amount of caches e.g. on one day are not to set up as a challenge. New challenges offer a nice feature of playing the game. We like to aim to fullfill challenges - although we already do at a lot of them.

For those who don't like them is the ignore button

Answer 4

Fantastic, there should be more cache types

Answer 5

We have completed quite a few challenge caches and find them as another way for us to keep the game interesting and to motivate us.  We have completed our Fizzy and Jasmer and are working on double Fizzy nd Jasmer. We completed a 360 degree challenge, many state challenges ( x number of caches in Y number of states), and are currently working on "shades of green" ( at least 11 caches for every calendar day.

Answer 6

I like challenge caches and therefore I was happy to see them coming back. However, it was quite disappointing to see all those restrictions that are in place now and which would prevent some of the most interesting and creative challenges I did in the past from being published now.

Some of the guidlines obviously make sense and I can see the point of some others (e.g. the necessity to have a checker, although it was also fun to search the archives to see whether I qualified or not, cf. the wonderful challenge GC515W1 "In een klein stationneke... (https://www.coord.info/GC515W1). However, others limit the possibilities much too much. Why, for example, should you not be able to use other geographical critera other than countries, states and counties as long as checker can be created for this? If I understand it correctly this would exclude interesting challenges e.g. based on topographic maps (cf. GC6G2MT: Belgium Topo50 Challenge: https://www.coord.info/GC6G2MT) or 360° challenges. Or why on earth should it not be possible to use cache titles, GC-codes etc.??? Or why not percentages of found caches in an area? Also the timing requirements are much too restrictive. After all, as with all other caches, nobody forces you to find a specific challenge which might be too difficult, but for some of us, who have completed most of the standard statistical stuff, those challenges were a nice way to set yourself a difficult goal.

So, overall, I am happy that they are back, but very disappointed about the stupid restrictions on them. By the way, I would prefer if there were a special cache type for challenges.

Answer 7

je pense que c'est bien d'avoir de nouveau les challenge et comme je l'avais posté auparavant, ils mériteraient un nouvel icone avec un symbol différent pour mieux les distinguer ... ainsi que d'étre comptabiliser et récompensés

Answer 8

Viele Challenge Cache, sind wie Salz in der Suppe.
Sie gehören zu diesem Hoby.
Ich freue mich auf neue Challenge Caches.
Minos2003 aus Belgien.

Many Challenge Cache, are like icing on the cake.
They belong to this Hoby.
I look forward to new challenge caches.
Minos2003 from Belgium.

Answer 9

I think it is not a good decision. Even with the new regulations Groundspeak will not prevent the challenge cache associated competition between cachers.