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56 minutes ago, redsox_mark said:
2. You can log it as found by going to one of 497 different places (if I understand the weblink correctly).
It is different from any Virtual I've seen. And it can be done without GPS use. Go to one of the places on the website... no need to navigate to any specific coordinates.
No, you have to pick the "Hausberg" category which leaves you with ~70 possible places, then subtract all those that are duplicates, that are inaccessible or where there isn't anything to see any more (read the descriptions!). There you'll also find the GPS coordinates you need to navigate there (written in BMN, but I'll call that a D1.5 puzzle at best...)
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2 hours ago, brendan714 said:
Brass Cap Cache: Visit one of the hundreds of pre-determined virtual waypoints and get information off of a survey marker. Multiple logs on the same waypoint were okay, but only the listed waypoints were loggable.
GC7B876: Visit one of ??? non-pre-determined locations and get the required info. Any location is loggable if the logging requirements are met.
If the Brass Cap Cache was considered locationless, GC7B876 definitely is.
If your assumptions were correct it would be - but unfortunately they aren't.
The Brass Cap Cache was meant to be constantly moved around - mine isn't.
Cachers were actively encouraged to log it multiple times - mine can only be logged once.
Both have pre-determined locations. Maybe it's the different language that has kept you from doing the required research, but then you'd end up with just a select few possible locations, each with exact coordinates to enter into your GPSr - so no, not "any" location is loggable. As I said in my first post in this thread, I will gladly add those waypoints to the listing if Groundspeak asks me to do so.
I'm sorry for the Brass Cap Cache which sounded like an interesting project to do but I still see more differences between that cache and mine than there are similarities.
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14 minutes ago, brendan714 said:
I might be wrong but I thought a virtual must be completed at the posted coordinates.
Yes, you are wrong as the guidelines for the new virtual caches clearly allow virtual waypoints. I've seen dozens of new virtuals that are more like Multi-Caches pop up lately where you have to visit 10 or more stages.
QuoteWaypoints
Virtual Caches can have additional virtual waypoints. Physical waypoints are not allowed. Learn more about waypoints.
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6 minutes ago, arisoft said:
There are other virtual rewards for example https://coord.info/GC7B78E where logging requirements are not fulfilled at posted coordinates. Creating this kind of inventive virtual needs in-depth discussion with local reviewer. So many virtuals get refused by some minor and meaningless problems that this kind of virtuals have been thoroughly studied before publishing.
Yet mine can be fulfilled at the posted coordinates...
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Well, let's have a look at the listing then:
QuoteDie Headerkoordinaten zeigen auf den Schüttkasten von Klement, der sich einerseits gleich neben einer Hausberganlage befindet...
QuoteThe coordinates point to the "Schüttkasten" in Klement, located directly beside a "Hausberganlage"...
so if you just visit the Hausberganlage at the header you're fine
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6 minutes ago, brendan714 said:
Well on your virtual the posted coordinates don't change, but the location and number of loggable entities certainly does.
Hmm, the location of those few loggable entities hasn't changed in a few hundred years, and its number will change only if new ones are discovered which isn't very likely.
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It got locked for being moved around which mine isn't.
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I'm the owner of the cache in question. It's not "locationless" as the region "Weinviertel" is defined quite precisely, and there is a very limited list of possible places. Besides, it was reviewed extensively and deemed ok. But if Groundspeak insists I'll add those places as Virtual Stages.
@Arne1: Why not contact me in person if you have a question/concern about my cache?
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I think that having a moratorium on challenge caches was a very wise decision - 2 thumbs up!
What do you not like about challenge caches?
These types of caches lead players to forget about locations or enjoying nature but introduce a strange kind of statistical pissing contest that's got nothing to do with geocaching any more. It's not about the numbers or matrices!
Besides, they are pretty repetitive - there's an "alphabet challenge" in nearly every district around here, as there are "complete the matrix", "366finds/date hidden", "366finds/366days", "3/4/5/6/7/8/9 cache types per day" and so on.
What would you like to see changed about challenge caches?
Remove challenge caches that require any kind of time limit as they depict geocaching as a competition, maybe call them achievements and hand out badges/souvenirs to those who care about that.
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A big NO to any kind of social media "detection", live tracking features or any kind of statistical pixxing contests like leaderboards and stat comparisons! Please don't ruin geocaching by trying to make GC.com a social media site or by trying to make this wonderful game a competition! Besides, all of those surely expensive "live" features will raise the server load quite a lot whereas those are completely useless to all the geocachers using GPSrs (even these days not everyone uses a smartphone to find caches...) and therefore probably a huge waste of money.
A big YES to collaborating on lists with friends and on seeing which of ones friends have found a cache or Trackable - this will definitely come in handy when planning trips with friends, especially if there'll be options to save a search as .gpx or create a PQ of it!
A not so big "Meh, don't care" to the ability to follow a cache placer and be alerted of new caches they hide (I'd filter Notification emails by placer name if I needed that feature), and to the ability to get alerts or newsfeed content when ones friends find caches or Trackables (I'd use my watchlist to keep an eye on interesting caches - besides, if I wanted to know what my friends are doing or where they are at the moment, then I'd simply give them a call), maybe an Opt out-option would be a good idea...
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Perhaps those experiencing problems could do a "view source" on the geocaching.com homepage (once it eventually loads) and check right at the end... there's a comment that shows what server you're hitting. For example, right now this server:
<!-- Server: WEB20; Build: Tucson.Main.release-20150113.Release_234
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seems to be flying along for me.....
WEB14 is veeeeery slow for me right now (but that was the only server I could even reach within the last hour...)
Routenverfolgung zu geocaching.com [63.251.163.200] über maximal 30 Abschnitte:1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms home.router [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 19 ms 10 ms 11 ms 84.116.231.159
3 23 ms 19 ms 24 ms 84.116.229.193
4 196 ms 190 ms 196 ms at-vie01a-rd1-vl-2047.aorta.net [84.116.228.145]
5 195 ms 190 ms 206 ms nl-ams05a-rd2-xe-0-0-0.aorta.net [84.116.130.81]
6 118 ms 119 ms * us-nyc01b-rd1-gi-2-0-0.aorta.net [84.116.130.26]
7 189 ms 196 ms 192 ms 84.116.137.222
8 191 ms 184 ms 195 ms 63-235-40-153.dia.static.qwest.net [63.235.40.153]
9 233 ms 222 ms 229 ms sea-edge-13.inet.qwest.net [67.14.41.70]
10 221 ms 216 ms 211 ms 63-235-80-54.dia.static.qwest.net [63.235.80.54]
11 215 ms 219 ms 212 ms border8.po1-40g-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.18]
12 213 ms 213 ms 209 ms 63.251.163.200
EDIT: took me 20 minutes and 3 timeout errors to post this answer' date=' accessing the forums from my french vpn now (normal loading times right now, server WEB11):
Hop Hostname IP Time 1 Time 21 private xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 0.111ms
1 vss-2b-6k.fr.eu 94.23.226.252 54.500ms
1 vss-2b-6k.fr.eu 94.23.226.252 0.693ms
2 rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu 91.121.131.237 1.010ms
3 no reply *
4 no reply *
5 no reply *
6 ae10.mpr2.lhr2.uk.zip.zayo.com 64.125.31.194 4.602ms
7 xe-7-1-0.cr1.lga5.us.zip.zayo.com 64.125.26.37 73.112ms
8 ae6.cr1.ord2.us.zip.zayo.com 64.125.24.34 91.090ms
9 ae16.mpr1.sea1.us.zip.zayo.com 64.125.21.138 139.423ms
10 208.185.125.106.IPYX-072053-008-ZYO.above.net 208.185.125.106 224.791ms
11 border9.po1-40g-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net 63.251.160.19 148.827ms
12 63.251.163.200 63.251.163.200 147.038ms
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I'm fairly sure it's got nothing to do with ISPs as I was (and still am) experiencing the very same behaviour described by German users in both France and Austria over the past few days - different providers, same hours of the day though...
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Found another spelling error (plus some inconsistencies) in the German version of the GC.com website:
Under http://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx it says "Stichwortt" instead of "Stichwort"
Reference: Duden
Also "nach" is spelled with a capital letter in the first search field as opposed to the following two search fields where lower case letters are being used (personallly I'd use small letters...)
Thanks in advance, I'm feeling better already ;-)
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If one of my geocaches gets misplaced and I have to go search for it then I log "Owner maintenance" but never "Found it"
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sorry to be that direct, but this renders the search function pretty much useless for everyone - definitely not an improvement :-( please add at least a "contains" option with the advanced search page!
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i can confirm this problem - definitely not a cookie or 3rd party software/greasemonkey script issue
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thanks a lot!
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It's been two weeks now - is there any update on when the error will be corrected?
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I am a native German speaker which is why I use the german translation of the website (from now on you'll feel obliged to read everything I write with the voice of Colonel Klink from "Hogan's Heroes"...), and I can assure you it's wrong. It used to be "Souvenirs" on the gc.com website up to a few weeks ago but with a recent update it was changed to the misspelled "Souvenire".
Here's a screenshot from August 2012 (from when I reported another spelling mistake ;-) ) with the correct spelling:
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Call me OCD but there's a spelling error in the german version of the geocaching.com website I wish to report:
The plural of "Souvenir" in german is "Souvenirs", not "Souvenire"! See Duden - Souvenir,Wortbedeutung - Souvenir,Thefreedictionary - Souvenir, etc. for reference
found on geocaching.com/profile/
and geocaching.com/my
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks a lot! 2 thumbs up
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Call me a grammar n@zi if you will but there's spelling mistake in one of the tabs in the personal profile view of the german version of the GC.com page: it says "Gallerie" instead of "Galerie". It may be spellt "gallery" in english or "galleria" in italian but it's just one "L" in german.
For reference see: Duden - German Reference Dictionary
(it also says "Profile for Benutzer" which is an unelegant mixture between english and german - "Profil von Benutzer" would be much nicer... )
Thanks in advance, I'm feeling better already ;-)
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Same here: as of a few days ago some notification emails don't make it to my Gmail account which is pretty annoying (however some get through) - and apparently it is a common problem according to both numerous logs in recently published caches near my home zone and other geocaching discussion forums I am a member of.
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New locationless cache ?
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As a matter of fact I've visited all of them within 2 days