BadgeGen

2023-03-21T18:37:52Z

26769311: Updated requirements for the badge levels

== General information ==
BadgeGen is included as a tab in the [[Profile Stats]]. There are 45 ''Badges'' in total, each with 8 different qualities. Most of them can also be "looped", ie getting "double ''Diamond''" or more. Once the user have Ruby or higher they will unlock [[BadgeGen#Addons|Addons]].

== Existing badges ==
The below examples are showing with the quality ''Diamond''.

{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMultiCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMysteriousCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheVirtualCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheEarthCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheLetterboxer|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheWherigoCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMegaSocialCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheSocialCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheEnvironmentalCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=ThePhotogenicCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheDiverseCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheOddsizedCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMicroCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheSmallCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheRegularCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheLargeCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheAdventurousCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheBrainiac|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheRuggedCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheFTFAddict|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheTravelingCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheCacheOwner|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheFavoritedOwner|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheAuthor|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheShutterbug|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheHighAltitudeCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheLowAltitudeCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheBusyCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheDailyCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheCalendarCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheCachingVeteran|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheEventHost|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheGeocacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheLongDistanceCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMatrixCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheTrackableLover|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheAchiever|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheFavoriteCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheAllAroundCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheGigaSocialCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheGPSMazeCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheJasmerCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheLabCacher|q=D}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheAttributeCacher|q=D}}

== Qualities ==
Each badge exists in eight different qualities, starting with Bronze, ending with Diamond. The last four are so called [[Gembadge]]s. Example using ''The Traditional Cacher''.
{|
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=B}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=S}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=G}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=P}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=R}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=Sa}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=E}}
|{{Badge image|icon=TheTraditionalCacher|q=D}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|Bronze
|style="text-align:center;"|Silver
|style="text-align:center;"|Gold
|style="text-align:center;"|Platinum
|style="text-align:center;"|Ruby
|style="text-align:center;"|Sapphire
|style="text-align:center;"|Emerald
|style="text-align:center;"|Diamond
|}

== Requirements ==

{| class="wikitable"
|+Requirements per Badge/Quality
!Badge!!Bronze!!Silver!!Gold!!Platinum!!Ruby!!Sapphire!!Emerald!!Diamond
|-
|[[The Achiever]]||5||20||40||80||150||225||350||500
|-
|[[The Adventurous Cacher]]||1||2||3||5||8||12||18||30
|-
|[[The All Around Cacher]]||90||120||180||270||300||330||350||360
|-
|[[The Attribute Cacher]]||50||70||82||88||94||100||105||108
|-
|[[The Author]]||30||40||50||60||70||80||90||100
|-
|[[The Brainiac]]||2||4||6||10||15||30||50||100
|-
|[[The Busy Cacher]]||20||30||50||80||120||180||270||400
|-
|[[The Cache Owner]]||10||15||20||30||50||80||120||200
|-
|[[The Caching Veteran]]||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||10
|-
|[[The Calendar Cacher]]||90||150||220||280||330||350||365||366
|-
|[[The Daily Cacher]]||7||14||30||60||122||183||274||365
|-
|[[The Diverse Cacher]]||3||4||6||7||8||9||10||11
|-
|[[The Earth Cacher]]||5||10||20||30||50||80||120||180
|-
|[[The Environmental Cacher]]||2||3||4||5||6||8||10||12
|-
|[[The Event Host]]||1||2||3||5||8||12||18||30
|-
|[[The Favorite Cacher]]||10000||30000||60000||100000||170000||250000||350000||500000
|-
|[[The Favorited Owner]]||25||40||60||90||150||210||320||500
|-
|[[The FTF Addict]]||15||20||30||50||80||120||180||300
|-
|[[The Geocacher]]||500||1000||2000||3000||5000||8000||12000||18000
|-
|[[The Giga Social Cacher]]||-||1||2||-||3||4||5||6
|-
|[[The GPS Maze Cacher]]||-||-||1||2||3||-||4||5
|-
|[[The High Altitude Cacher]]||500||1000||1500||2000||2500||3000||3500||4500
|-
|[[The Jasmer Cacher]]||36||72||144||216
|''{{Jasmer|70}}''<ref name=dynamic>''The values for the Jasmer gem badges are dynamic, see the [[The Jasmer Cacher|badge page]] for details.''</ref>
|''{{Jasmer|85}}''<ref name=dynamic/>
|''{{Jasmer|95}}''<ref name=dynamic/>
|''{{Jasmer|100}}''<ref name=dynamic/>
|-
|[[The Lab Cacher]]||10||25||50||100||200||400||600||800
|-
|[[The Large Cacher]]||3||10||20||40||60||80||120||180
|-
|[[The Letterboxer]]||5||6||7||8||10||15||25||50
|-
|[[The Long-Distance Cacher]]||1000||1200||1500||2000||2900||4200||6400||10000
|-
|[[The Low Altitude Cacher]]||0||-1||-5||-10||-25||-40||-60||-100
|-
|[[The Matrix Cacher]]||25||35||50||60||70||78||80||81
|-
|[[The Mega Social Cacher]]||1||2||3||4||5||6||8||10
|-
|[[The Micro Cacher]]||200||300||500||800||1200||1800||3000||4500
|-
|[[The Multi Cacher]]||50||100||200||300||500||800||1000||1200
|-
|[[The Mysterious Cacher]]||50||100||200||300||500||800||1200||1800
|-
|[[The Odd-sized Cacher]]||75||125||200||300||450||600||800||1200
|-
|[[The Photogenic Cacher]]||2||3||5||8||12||18||25||40
|-
|[[The Regular Cacher]]||100||150||225||350||550||800||1200||1600
|-
|[[The Rugged Cacher]]||4||10||20||30||50||70||100||150
|-
|[[The Shutterbug]]||50||75||150||250||500||750||1500||2500
|-
|[[The Small Cacher]]||150||200||300||500||800||1200||1800||3000
|-
|[[The Social Cacher]]||5||10||20||30||50||80||120||180
|-
|[[The Trackable Lover]]||50||100||200||300||500||800||1200||1800
|-
|[[The Traditional Cacher]]||400||1000||2000||3000||5000||7000||10000||14000
|-
|[[The Traveling Cacher]]||2||3||5||8||12||18||25||35
|-
|[[The Virtual Cacher]]||5||10||20||30||50||80||120||180
|-
|[[The Wherigo Cacher]]||2||3||5||10||15||25||40||60
|}

== Loops ==
After reaching ''Diamond'' status, the user enables the possibility for loops, for some ''Badges''. Once the user has received twice the requirement for Diamond they will get a circle with number two in it in the top right corner. Some ''Badges'' are not possible to loop at all, some have a loop-limit of 9, and others 99.

{{Badge image|icon=TheMatrixCacher|q=D|loop=2}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMatrixCacher|q=D|loop=9}}
{{Badge image|icon=TheMatrixCacher|q=D|loop=99}}

== Addons ==
When achieving the status of a [[Gembadge]] the user has unlocked the possibility of ''Addons''. Several ''Badges'' can have mini-badges added to them, these are called ''Addons''. For example, ''[[The Traditional Cacher]]'' will get a nice 366-addon added to it if the user has logged a Geocache of the type Traditional on every date of the calendar.

The original idea with Addons was that they were supposed to be something the user could work on after they had their Diamond. It was a concept aiming to please those who have been geocaching a lot, for a long time. The design was even to require a Diamond to show them. When Project-GC started detailing it out more and more it became clear that some Addons will be fairly easy and others more or less impossible. The original idea was definitely aiming more for impossible than easy though. It is not meant that everyone should get every Addon, and even more so, not within a year or two.

The following placeholder ''Badges'' shows the available ''Addons''. Since some of them share locations, they can not be shown on a single ''Badge''. No ''Badge'' can have all these ''Addons'' and the combinations shown below are not possible.

{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=81matrix,366cal,leapday,ftf}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=mega,giga,cito}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=boat,climb}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=fieldpuzzle}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=lostfound,partner}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=oldvirtual}}
{{Badge image|quality=D|addons=communitycelebration,ape,HQ,HQcelebration,blockparty,locationless}}

The available generic addons are: ''[[D/T addon|D/T 81 matrix]], [[366 addon|366 calendar days]], [[leap day]], [[First to Find|FTF]], Giga event, Lost & Found (L&F) Attribute, Boat attribute, Old Virtual (2005 or earlier), CITO, Field Puzzle attribute, Partnership attribute, Mega event, Climbing attribute''.

Additionally [[The Geocacher]] can hold six other addons: ''Community Celebration, Ape, HQ, HQ Celebration, Blockparty, Locationless''.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Loop/Addon matrix
!Badge!!Loop!!D/T!!366!!Leapday!!FTF!!Giga!!L&F!!Boat!!Old-Virtual!!CITO!!FieldPuzzle!!Partnership!!Mega!!Climb!!Others
|-
|[[The Achiever]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Adventurous Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||✓||-||-||✓||-||-||✓||-||-||✓||-
|-
|[[The All Around Cacher]]||99||-||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Attribute Cacher]]||99||-||-||✓||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||✓||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Author]]||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Brainiac]]||99||-||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Busy Cacher]]||9||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Cache Owner]]||9||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Caching Veteran]]||9||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Calendar Cacher]]||99||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Daily Cacher]]||99||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Diverse Cacher]]||-||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Earth Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Environmental Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Event Host]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||✓||✓||-||-||✓||-||-||✓||-||-
|-
|[[The Favorite Cacher]]||99||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Favorited Owner]]||99||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The FTF Addict]]||99||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Geocacher]]||99||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||[[#others|See below]]
|-
|[[The Giga Social Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The GPS Maze Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The High Altitude Cacher]]||-||-||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Jasmer Cacher]]||9||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Lab Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Large Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Letterboxer]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Long-Distance Cacher]]||-||-||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Low Altitude Cacher]]||-||-||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Matrix Cacher]]||99||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Mega Social Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Micro Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Multi Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Mysterious Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Odd-sized Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Photogenic Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Regular Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Rugged Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||✓||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||-||✓||-
|-
|[[The Shutterbug]]||9||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Small Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Social Cacher]]||99||-||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Trackable Lover]]||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Traditional Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Traveling Cacher]]||9||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Virtual Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
|[[The Wherigo Cacher]]||99||✓||✓||✓||✓||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|}

<span id="others"></span>[[The Geocacher]] badge has six unique addons which apply to all levels, not just gemstones. These are Community Celebration, Ape, HQ, HQ Celebration, Blockparty, and Locationless.

== Country Badges ==
These Badges are awarded for finding caches in a country. The quality of the badge is awarded based on the percentage of states/regions that the user has logged a cache in.

For more information, see: [[Country Badges]]

== Belts ==
There is also a belt system. By finishing different tasks the user collects points. The total number of points awards the user with a certain belt.

For more information, see: [[BadgeGen_Belts|BadgeGen Belts]]

== History ==
BadgeGen was originally created and maintained by [[Kyle Mills]], as a macro for GSAK. In the early days [[Project-GC]] had the license to make a similar implementation of it embedded in Project-GC. In year 2020, the ownership of BadgeGen was transferred to the owner of Project-GC. This was done since [[Kyle Mills|Kyle]] himself was not geocaching anymore, and both parts wished for the name of BadgeGen to live on. Alongside with the acquiring of the BadgeGen license the product went through a big overhaul, adding new badges, rebalancing, new features and a new badge design. The new design was created by Markus (clappy).

[[Kyle Mills]] maintained BadgeGen up until, and including, version 3.x. The new version owned by [[Project-GC]] became ''version 4'', plain and simple.

Related: [[BadgeGen v3 vs v4]]

== Badge Statistics ==
[[Badge Statistics]] is not the complete statistics of all Geocachers, but these meta-statistics might give the user an idea of how achievable a [[gembadge]] or [[BadgeGen#Addon|addon]] is.

==Notes==
<references />

[[Category:BadgeGen]]

Talk:Badge Statistics

2023-03-19T16:57:20Z

26769311: /* GeoTour Addon */ new section

Would it be possible to extract data for how many cachers have got addons for each badge? It would probably have to be done as a separate table. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 14:36, 26 February 2020 (CET)
* Yes, it was actually my plan. I wrote the tool to output the current wiki-version while watching TV-series yesterday. Maybe I will get some time to create an Addon table later today. I have also considered adding percents somehow. I would also be interested in Diamond-loops, but not sure how to do it, maybe use 1-9,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,99, but that sounds a bit too wide. Ideas are always welcome, just don't spend too much time on formatting. As you probably understand, the current data is an output from a program, so I will replace the whole page each time I run it.
* I'll be updating this today, with numbers per Addon. The current data is based on >26,000 profiles. Since the requirements has been updated I will create the next report based on data rendered today only, so the data-set will be much smaller.

==Bot-updated==
'''Category:Bot-updated''' should be added to this page per the information on the category-page. Pages can have multiple categories so it can still stay in BadgeGen too. [[User:4523550|4523550]] ([[User talk:4523550|talk]]) 21:39, 12 November 2020 (CET)
* It will be added on next update of the data of everything goes as planned. I made the release today, not sure which day it's scheduled to update, but within a week.

==Non-applicable add-ons==
In the '''Number of Geocachers per Badge/Addon''' section, is it possible for the bot to replace 0 with - for addons that aren't applicable to the badge? E.g. the lostfound add-on the the Achiever badge. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 09:36, 3 March 2022 (CET)
: It has been suggested to me before, and I agree it would look much nicer and be a lot more readable. But due to how the rule-set is stored it's quite complex. In simple terms, there is just code, there is no list of which badges can have which addon. While a list of course can be created, it will become a redundancy where it's likely that the list won't be updated. The correct approach is to let such list include references to the code somehow. But that's a bit too much work. --[[User:3305483|3305483]] ([[User talk:3305483|talk]]) 12:11, 3 March 2022 (CET)
::Thanks. It may be possible to do something using templates - I'll try something later. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 08:07, 4 March 2022 (CET)
:::That would be very cool. And to not say the least, I would see it as pure magic. --[[User:3305483|3305483]] ([[User talk:3305483|talk]]) 09:54, 4 March 2022 (CET)
::::I haven't forgotten about this, but other things have pushed this aside until now. I still think it should be possible, so I'll try some ideas at some point. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 10:47, 18 September 2022 (CEST)

== Beltgen statistics ==

Would it be possible to include [[BadgeGen Belts]] statistics as well? How many cachers have reached each level of belt? (Just asking as I've now got my top belt!) For those over 400 points, maybe a separate list for >500, >600 etc. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 10:51, 18 September 2022 (CEST)
: It seems quite possible actually. Trying to imagine other data that could be shown. For example number of capped users per rule (of those that can be capped). Max points earned per rule. I would probably add another Wiki page (Belt Statistics), that starts just as the existing one. The whole *Data set* section would just be a duplication. I'll try to remember to look into this next week. I imagine it would just take a few hours to get the basis in there, then I have no idea about the time the wiki formatting. There are a few things missing in the current data that makes it a bit cumbersome. For example I only have the url to the belt image, not the name itself. Similar with the points-per-rule, it's just a list, without any reference to which rule it actually is. But the order will always be the same. The best would be to produce data that describes itself more, but then I don't have the history from the last year. --[[User:3305483|3305483]] ([[User talk:3305483|talk]]) 11:17, 18 September 2022 (CEST)
: Initial version exists now, [[Belt_Statistics]]. --[[User:3305483|3305483]] ([[User talk:3305483|talk]]) 16:56, 19 September 2022 (CEST)

::Thanks. [[User:6278087|6278087]] ([[User talk:6278087|talk]]) 09:32, 20 September 2022 (CEST)

== GeoTour Addon ==

Maybe someone wants to remove the GeoTour addon which doesn't exist anymore.

Project-GC - User contributions [en]

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