Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged badge

Revise or even remove the "Author" badge

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:48:03 +0000

Hi, could you please revise or even remove the "Author" badge?

It's annoying, especially now with AI, where people write tons of text just to get and keep this badge.

I'm not exempt from this; I write just as much nonsense for this badge.

How about simply removing the badge or changing it so that instead of the average, a certain number of entries (x) must be reached? For example, to get the highest badge, one could write x log entries of 100 words each. Perhaps this could improve log entries again?

Could The Achiever badge include challenges you own?

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:51:53 +0000

I have no idea if this is the right forum to post this so please feel free to move it to most appropriate one if necessary. I'm not sure if I would consider this a Feature Request but more like a suggestion or an ask for a minor change.

Currently The Achiever badge under PGC's BadgeGen counts the number of challenges you've logged. As per the current GC.com challenge rules, you must qualify for any challenges you publish but you can't log any of your own (challenge) caches so wouldn't it be nice if you got "credit" for all the challenges you've published "under" The Achiever badge as well?

Would that be possible or worth considering? It would be a nice to have, IMO. :-)

Thanks.

Warum wird meine Statistik bei The Author nicht aktualisiert

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:05:25 +0000

Hallo liebes GC-Projekt-Team, hallo liebe Community,

mir ist schon seit längerem aufgefallen, dass meine Statistik bei der Badge „The Author“ nicht aktualisiert wird. Ich schreibe teilweise längere Logs über 100 Wörter (was meines Wissens nach die Voraussetzung für die Statistik von „The Author“ ist) und gebe mir damit auch immer Mühe, aber seltsamerweise zählen diese Logs nicht mit rein.

Könnt ihr mir bitte sagen, warum das so ist, bzw. was ich für „The Author“ in Zukunft berücksichtigen muss, damit meine Logs auch zählen?

Vielen Dank und liebe Grüße

Mark von TrommiFamily

BadgeGen, Calendar Cacher is not calculating correctly.

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:38:00 +0000

BadgeGen, Calendar Cacher is not calculating correctly. It gives too high number (3291) for me. In addition, it does not count up after I log in new dates, but has stood still for a long time. Maybe waiting for me (2752) to catch up? :)

/ svegrim

How to create a BadgeBar with the flags of my visited countries ?

Sun, 15 May 2022 19:47:47 +0000

Hello,

My question is in the title : how can I create a banner with the flags of my visited countries for my GC-profile ? I have already the BadgeBar but I want more...

Thank you for your help. Best regards.

Youk

Je ne vois pas le Badge Lab

Mon, 02 May 2022 13:22:03 +0000

Bonjour,

Je précise que je suis Premium que j'ai parcouru 458 Adventure Lab et que j'ai vérifié dans la configuration de mon profil (pas de case à cocher correspondante...?) et que j'ai parcouru tout le forum à ce sujet.

Merci par avance

Why doesn't the author badge filter out repeated spam?

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 09:51:04 +0000

As it is, the badge encourages many cachers to post long irrelevant parts to their logs, for instance excerpts from Wikipedia articles or just ASCII art. This makes reading logs a worse experience than the alternative where cachers just write extremely short logs, as the information conveied stays the same, while being a lot more tedious to read through.

Could be badge not be designed to filter out repeated parts in logs, or at the very least to exclude ASCII art?

How long does a log need to be for the Author badge?

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:43:49 +0000

How long does a log have to be counted for Author badge?

Wie kann ich den Lab Cache Badge aktivieren?

Wed, 12 May 2021 06:39:35 +0000

Wie kann ich den Lab Cache Badge aktivieren?
Ich bin zahlendes Mitglied. Leider habe ich keine Möglichkeit, bei der Prifilstatistik irgendwelche Einstellungen vorzunehmen.

Bug in The odd-sized cacher badge?

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 07:03:51 +0000

According to The Odd-sized cacher badge explanation it is awarded for logging "other" and "not chosen" sized caches. Our badge tells us that we have logged 1183 such caches but when we filter our "found caches size other" on geocaching.com we get the result 1410 (we also have found a number of not chosen size but can't easily find out how many). So either there seems to be a bug in the badge, or the explanation is not complete when it comes to how the number of odd-sized caches is calculated.

[solved] Attribute Cacher Badge : New attributes and loop- possible bug

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 05:30:49 +0000

Hi,

the 4 new geocaching attributes are also available at PCG.

It tooks some days I got them counted. So I already have some bonus, challenge, power trail and solution checker attributes.

I got back to diamond as I now have 107 attributes.

Possible bug: As I had looped the "Attribute Cacher Badge" 5 times and with the 4 new attributes still have looped all 107 attributes 5 times, I would have expected that I again get the loop sign 5.

But it's not showing.

Bug or will it take some more days for PGC to get all the data?

cache owner badge not including events?

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:39:36 +0000

Hi Team,

I see that the amount mentioned at the cache owner badge is much lower now than it used to be on the old version of BadgeGen. From looking at the details, I gather that events I organised are no longer included as caches I own. Is there a plan to add the events again?

And on top of that, are lab caches that I created (going to be) included? I can't see that from the details yet.

Thank you!

Very nice upgrade - very pleased - what is your favorite badge?

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 21:24:16 +0000

Now that I have updated using Shift + Reload, I am very impressed with the results. This is exquisite work. Specifically, the colors are vibrant, the new badges and add-ons really enhance the entire concept. Most of all, I am very grateful that you listened to the community feedback. Thank you to the entire team involved with upgrading the badges. Very nice!

Badge for collected souvenirs

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:28:47 +0000

Are there plans to implement a badge for collected souvenirs?

If not, what do you think about this idea?

Are there plans to add badges related to lab caches?

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:15:41 +0000

Checker for amount of collected badges

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:32:17 +0000

GC3CQ9K is asking the cacher to collect at least 30 badges (not gemstones, not a specific belt level) as generated by BadgeGen (or via project-gc's profilestats).

I did look for some existing script handling this, but couldn't find any…

Can I view country badges stats?

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:09:45 +0000

Feature Enhancement: Add regions and counties for "Bosnia and Herzegovina"

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:21:18 +0000

I'll be hunting for some new country in the next weeks, on of them is "Bosnia and Herzegovina".

Could you add regions and counties for it? Is there an own badge for it?

Tanks, Ulf

Badge "French Polynesia Cacher"

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:10:14 +0000

Hello,

it seems that the Badge "The French Polynesia Cacher" has no country flag. It is only visible the grey badge draft.

Thanks for fixing

Smellfooth

Feature request (enhancement): Badges for counties

Mon, 04 May 2015 16:01:11 +0000

Is there a possibility for badges not only for states (regions) but also for counties?

Head-in-the-clouds award not being correct

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:30:45 +0000

For my BadgeGen Head-in-the-clouds award, I have found a cache at 1668m above sea level. The highest badge I've gotten is just 1484m though. Is there a way for me to manually adjust this number so that it is correct? The difference is almost 200m, which is quite a lot, and it's also the difference between silver and gold, so I find it significant.

Thanks!

Feature Request: Badge received TOP and belt received TOP

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:05:31 +0000

Please Add new top for cachers based on

1) belt level

2) all badges received

3) gemstone badges received

badges could be by total count of badges received and for example by points where bronze=0.1 pont, silver=0.3, gold=1point, platinum=3point,ruby=10point etc

States of Malta - State Badge

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:17:07 +0000

Hi there,

we have been in Malta two weeks ago and were quite confident to have found caches in every state or region. Now, back home, we realize, that this is not the case - at least as it is seen by the state badge: According to wikipedia you can either find 6 districts (Gozo and Comino, Northern, Northern Harbour, South Eastern, Southern Harbour, Western) or 3 regions (Gozo and Comino; Malta Majjistral, Malta Xlokk). The badge counts the islands, which does not make sense, as there is only one cache on one of the islands.

Greetings,

Frank