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On 10/19/2022 at 4:41 AM, barefootjeff said:

 

Yep. Maybe the lesson here is that, if you want to be a CO, you should solve as many of the puzzles as you can around the areas you'll likely be hiding but don't go out and find them, or if you do, just sign the logbook but don't log the finds online.

 

Or that a subset of geocaching is more important than the core game the app is designed around, and maybe geocaching isn't something to continue with at all. 

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2 hours ago, niraD said:

Once upon a time, the saturation guideline actually explained that its purpose was "to encourage you to seek out new places to hide caches rather than putting them in areas where caches already exist, and to limit the number of caches hidden in a particular area"

 

Guess that time has past with the number of caches laid out in specific patterns and trails.

Making a tool to help ensure caches are not too close together that does not contain all the data is a broken tool.

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1 hour ago, Keystone said:

 

Your proposed solutions would spoil the locations for hundreds of thousands of Mystery Caches, Multi-Caches, Letterbox Hybrid Caches and Wherigo Caches.  To you, caches with hidden waypoints might be a "cancer" but to others, one or more of these cache types are their favorites.

 

Read the posts above for a more targeted solution (showing caches where the final location is equal to the posted coordinates) that keeps hidden waypoints safe from spoiling until a geocacher solves the puzzle, visits the stages of the Multi, etc.

 

Then make them exempt from the saturation rule.

If your favourite type of cache is one of these, then you wouldn't be going to the planning map to cheat. For those who don't do them, it's an impediment in some urban areas, and seeing it on the planner map only helps them participate. 

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Mystery caches are a cancer in this regard. I have zero interest in them, so I don't find them, but they prevent you from planning where you'll hide a cache because the website doesn't warn you of their proximity to your submitted cache. Either they need to show the location on the planning map, have the submission process warn you when inputting your cords, or have them be exempt from the distance rule.