stefanthebass

I also spend quite a long time on developing, testing and building the caches. For most of the more difficult ideas I also try to get someone testing it. The most extreme cache to date is GC8YEYQ, an online mystery with a dedicated website. It has 22 questions and puzzles to be solved embedded in a story of a young woman losing her memory. The outdoor part is "just" a 2 stage multi with a really big box and some surprises. The time spend on this is really hard to estimate, but even before the publish it was far more than 200 hours for me alone developing the software, selecting and processing the images, sounds and music. Additionally we need to take into account the efforts of developing the story done by my geocaching partner. We had two teams for beta-testing the online part and the outdoor part. Unfortunately, we had to move the final at one point and therefore we re-did the beta as well. But that's not all...such a complex website needs maintenance. We experiences some glitches that had to be fixed and add another 100 to 200 hours for that and for also for our monitoring tools. Sounds like work? Not at all. It is such a rewarding and fun thing that I love spending the time! All the requests for help, that we love to answer for the perspectve of this poor woman, it's fun! And most cachers write really lovely and long logs. Unfortunately: only available in German :-(