Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged points

Can we get more favorite statistics?

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:49:10 +0000

There was a Facebook Group post about why do you favorite an %earthcache. Well that got me to thinking. Why not have some good favorite point stats? Could we produce things like

favorites per icon
percentage of an icon favorited
favorites per state/county
favorites per D/T

I am sure others could figure out some more favorite points you have given stats that would be fun to know.

10 points per 50 caches found on day with most finds. How is this counted?

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:14:10 +0000

At the "Belt information" one of the lines show: "10 points per 50 caches found on day with most finds; maximum of 40 points."
I have found over 50 caches on my day with my most founds. But I got only 10 points instead of 20. Am I misunderstanding something or is the counting not correct?

Example:
84 op 2023-08-07; 83 op 2015-08-07

I did not receive PGC points after showing my stats on my geocaching profile, is it normal?

Thu, 02 May 2019 11:32:39 +0000

how do you think about removing favoritpoints

Thu, 02 May 2019 04:57:41 +0000

I would like you to tell your opinin about removing favoritpoints from Caches that are gone.

I am not quit sure, if I shall do this. But when I will get inspired by the Lists, of Caches that have many Favoritpoints, I ask myself: why should I leave allready the Favoritpoint at a Cache that does not longer exist.

On the other side, the Cacheowner did something realy good, when he made all the work to manage the Geocache.... In fact someone damaged it so hard, that an maintanance is not longer possible, or the lokation is not longer in the shape to play the game there - that is not the fault of the Cacheowner and the honor, that is brought with the favoritpoints is the only honor that is possible.

Pleas dont get angry about this, because remember: It is "only" a game, that we all play together....

Best whises and all the best from glastiger

Receiving FP notifiactions with §OPTOUT§XXXX§ as the username

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:14:28 +0000

Myself and another cacher keep receiving email notifications for FPs where the FP was removed by §OPTOUT§XXXX§ (where XXXX seems to be a unique identifier)

It always seems to correspond to someone's name where they are giving a FP (and where they actually gave the FP a long time ago).

Thoughts?

Reconfigure belt levels?

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 04:42:56 +0000

It seems to me the belt levels are somewhat off. II would think it would get progressively harder to get belts, like in most video games. That way the very first level is pretty easy, 2nd is a little harder, and so on. I guess this is the case in the 10 to 12 point leap for higher levels, but it seems strange that the first belt takes 30 points. Why not at the very least add stripes to the white belt, say maybe at 5 and 15 points, and then make each level after that just a little larger gap?

Points for Gem Badges

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 04:37:53 +0000

It appears you only get a point for the ruby badge, not any of the higher gem badges. Or at least I only get one and I have a diamond author badge. If that's not a bug, shouldn't you get a point each time you hit a new gem badge?

Why not take pictures of travel bugs on the belt?

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:17:59 +0000

I have a suggestion to add to the belt. I know there are points (on the belt) for the photos added in the logs "found it". Why would not there be points for the pictures added in the logs of the travels bugs? This might help to receive more photos ... What do you think?

Does project-gc count the total favourite points awarded on owned caches in another way than geocaching.com does?

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 06:32:41 +0000

My profil stats say I got 485 FPs from other geocachers. I manually checked this sum and according to geocaching.com it is "just" 467 FPs.

I am wondering what is responsible for this difference. I found no info in the FAQs or in previous threads of this support system.

My guesses would include FPs which were/are awarded to geocaches I owned once but now are adopted by someone else or FPs which were withdrawn (mostly due to archieving the cache).

Does anyone know someting about this issue?

Thanks and a have nice monday (if such a thing exists)

St.Jocosa

New belts and points

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:55:22 +0000

Hi,

i'm wondering if there are any new belts or points coming?

For example STF and TTF are used on logs but are not valued anywhere.

Badges for the total distance the travel bugs you own have traveled.

Badges for the total distance a geocacher moved travel bugs (own and others).

Rate of favourite points on owned caches (the rate is important, not the number).

The number of countries for which at least 50% of the zones have been covered.

The number of countries in which at least 5 different cache types have been found.

And many other ideas.

I know that the belts and points are produced based on someone else's idea but it's been there for some time and maybe it should evolve.

Thanks.

Arnaud.

Why is Earthcache not counting as "distinct cache type placed" in belt statistics?

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:28:08 +0000

In the "BadgeGen" -> "Belt Information" part of my profile statistics, it says that I should receive "2 points per distinct cache type hidden".

I am the owner of only one cache so far (an earthcache) but even though I have waited for the statistics to refresh for several weeks now, I have not received the 2 points for this cache placed. (All other stats have been updated).

Am I missing something - do earthcaches not count towards this?

Thanks in advance

gataki

Request: time line of cumulative points with belt milestones (similar to the annual graphic)

Mon, 11 May 2015 03:02:49 +0000

Uhrzeit der Aktualisierung der PGC-Points

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:30:35 +0000

Wie / wo kann ich denn sehen, zu welcher Uhrzeit meine PGC-Punkte http://project-gc.com/Home/PGCPoints neu berechnet werden? Dies geschieht ja wohl nachts einmal in 24 Stunden.

Counting points

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:16:17 +0000

As there are some challenges out there regarding counting points i recently suggested implementations to PGC which will show some of ypour most interesting points in your profile page.

1. Most points in one day

2. Most points in one month

3. Points this year

4. Time since last 1000p

5. Average points per caching day (active)

There are lots of implementations regarding points. The PGC answer is that there is a tool for checking points. Yes there is. But you can't really check all points you might be interested in. Wouldn't it be a nice feature? I think so.

Feature Request: "Relative" Favorite Points Over Time (Wilson score)

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:34:26 +0000

In "Top-Hiders/Favorite Points Over Time" we can compare owners by their absolute number of favorite points received. That's fine, but if you want to compare the "quality" of the work of two or more owners a better way would be to compare a relative value.

How about a "Relative Favorite Points Over Time (Wilson score)" feature? Favorite points received in relation to hidden caches of this owner and the time it took to collect this much fav-points. That would make owners more comparable.

Example:

Owner1: 1000 FP from 100 caches over a period of 10 years.
Owner2: 500 FP from 20 caches over a period of 2 years.
Owner3: 800 FP from 80 caches over a period of 5 years.

Who is the "better" one? Maybe a Wilson-score like statistical analysis can give us an answer.