WarNinjas
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My guess would be some kids know about the hide and check it from time to time and take stuff? I don't know of any cachers in my area that would spend time doing that. We want to get more new finds then visit any old ones. I can see if they found it not trading evenly but I don't see any of them making a special trip out to grab a toy.
Like you said if they are doing that then they probably have bigger problems in there life. I would just be glad they are not taking the actual container.
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Awesome! Keep up the good work!
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Thank you niraD!
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There's more than one way to remember geocaching friends:
Another idea is to Host an annual Event or CITO in their memory.
Can you message me the coords to that table? It is way to cool!
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Thanks so much Ranger Fox! You are the best and so is your program here! It works in the emulator but I will try as you suggested. That could be it!
-WarNinjas
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I have built a few using this with no problems. I just set one up that you have to kayak to and downloaded the first cartridge. Made some adjustments and downloaded it again. The first question worked on the first one but on the second download all 3 answers don't click to move on. It will be a pain to kayak out there multiple times to make sure it is working right. Any ideas? It is clearly marked.
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I don't think it is required anymore. I was making a cache with my daughter the other day and we came to that part and I asked what we should put. She said just hit whatever button it was to by pass it and it did.
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We have out a cache you have to fill with water to make the cache float up. It is zip tied to a fence. We say in the description if for any reason you don't want to play water games please just log it as found and don't destroy the set up. Still about every 6 months to a year we find out someone cut the zip ties to dump it out. Not much you can do.
You ought to consider a more tamper-resistant hose clamp...similar to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Turn-Key-Clamps-5Y00158-Carded/dp/B000JTOWN8
Those clamps are what I have around the tube to secure the zip ties to the tube. If I made it more secure I am not sure what those finders would do. I think it is best to let them cut them and they have always placed it back into the spot. The zip ties have always been cut and not deteriorated from the sun.
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We have out a cache you have to fill with water to make the cache float up. It is zip tied to a fence. We say in the description if for any reason you don't want to play water games please just log it as found and don't destroy the set up. Still about every 6 months to a year we find out someone cut the zip ties to dump it out. Not much you can do.
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Hi all.
I've noticed that due to the GPS included in most of the smartphones there are many people that start playing Geocaching and stop it after two or three finds.
The big issue is that some of them hide and create a new cache, without following the basic geocaching rules, setting coordinates distant hundred of meters from the actual GZ and without performing any maintenance, probably because they stop playing geocaching very quickly.
I think that hiding a cache in the best way, is fundamental to mantain the goodness of geocaching, otherwise there is the risk that it will disappear...
My suggestion is to limit the possibility to hide a new cache only to the players with some experience, e.g. Premium Members or Geocachers with a minimun number of founds (15-20-more?).
I would be very happy to hear the community idea on what above and, hopefully the Groundspeek team one!
Thanks
Regards
Dario
Italy
You said you would be happy to hear from the community and we are a part of it so...
I kind of agree with the idea here.
However having to throw a CITO before placing a cache sounds crazy to me. We have out over 180 caches and are in the top 25 CO with the most favorite points in California and have never thrown a even, no less a CITO. And having never even placed a cache I have no idea how someone would make a good quality event or CITO anyways. One of the reasons we started to like caching is we don't have to be around other people. Now we have many geocaching friends and would be cool with doing a event but that is after 4+ years of caching. No way we were ready to set that up in the first year or so. Also for a long time we didn't want when people looked up our hides to see a bunch of archived hides and we would have to archive our first hide? This idea wouldn't go over well with how we like to play the game.
Then with the time limit/find count before placing a cache. I like to fish but my daughter is not to much into it. We found caching and we quickly realize it was something we could both enjoy together. My daughter who was the important one here because I was looking for a hobby we could enjoy together instantly wanted to place a cache. We found a few caches on one weekend and talked of ideas of where and what to place. The very next weekend I had her probably a week after our first find we started to place a couple of caches and it was what she really enjoyed. Those caches are still active. (On a side note we only cache with our phones) Had we not been able to join in on the fun of placing caches for a few months or 50 finds or something I am not sure we would have kept playing.
Now 4 years later the main thing we do when we are together is cache. It is both finding and hiding and we love the game. Just this last weekend we came up with a crazy puzzle for a friend who is also a cacher and we kayaked out somewhere crazy and placed a cache. A few weekends before that we went to a wedding and reception of a friend we met caching.
Anyways my point is you never have any idea who is going to stick with the game and who will leave at any time. Or if the person who has been playing for a long time is going to maintain there cache. To put restrictions on a new cacher who might have the best idea for a cache that us playing for years might never think of is not the best way to go about this in my opinion. The idea that someone is playing with there phone means they are not going to be a good cache owner is also possibly not true. I know sometimes it is but not always.
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I think GE is a good tool to help but shouldn't rely on it. I have pulled up to a cache and the map view shows it in the middle of the street and I think it is off but my GPS takes me to it.
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I have ran into many other cachers. Mostly on FTF's but some other times as well!
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I seen this come up on a facebook page a while back. Some CO getting the message. I happened to go out and maintain all the caches I had questions on that weekend and I didn't get a email. So if all your caches are in good order there is nothing to worry about. If there are some that are questionable you might get a email to remind you about them. No big deal. They are not disabling them or anything just a reminder.
I sometimes forget when I get a log saying it might need some attention so I would appreciate the email. I don't see why it would be a problem.
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I know it isn't there. I also know there would be no way to really enforce it. Also I think cachers should be able to place hard puzzles if they want to like kunarion is talking about. This is for sure a rare case as most cachers I know want there hides to be found. What is the fun of placing them if they are never found. Seems like a waste. I wonder if the CO has ever gone out to check if after 5 years if they are still even there if someone was crazy enough to solve it now.
Yes, he has updated the caches fairly recently.
As linked in prior message on this thread... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?u=Silver+Bells
Specific example: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=1029234d-9e8f-47ee-a1ad-72ca0df7020a
the CO checked in on them in march of this year. Still no finds however.
Well at least he is checking on them then. Someone go find them now!
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Funniest thread I have seen all day!
So many questions!
First has this poster been a premium member all these years and not playing?
Second they have only logged earth caches that don't need a signature?
Very interesting.
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One thought I have of what makes a good puzzle is it all being in theme. I was taught that by the first cacher we met who makes a lot of puzzles.
I will use the puzzle I just submitted as a example (Not at all saying it is a great puzzle or anything or that I followed all the rules I am talking about).
We made a pretty cool container, a cache glued inside of a sea shell. We hid it and made a puzzle with a bunch of pictures of sea shells. You have to identify what kind of sea shell they are to get the numbers. It would have been cooler if we hid the sea shell at the beach but we didn't. It is close. That would have made it a cooler puzzle, to solve it about sea shells then go to the beach and find a sea shell cache. We did however place the puzzle bubble at the beach.
It could be anything like that. A puzzle about dogs, then hidden at a dog shelter and the container hidden inside of a fake dog bone. Making the puzzle, location and container all work together is what I think makes a cool puzzle.
However one I can solve I like even better!
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I would say after 5 years of no finds there should just be a reviewer saying....Thanks for placing this puzzle but apparently no one is interested in solving or finding it. We are going to open up the spot for a cache that someone might someday want to find!
Reviewers would enforce this just as soon as the concept is added to the listing guidelines. It isn't there, nor is there a concept that a certain percentage of local geocachers "must be able to solve" the puzzle as a condition of publication -- possibly because it's impossible to prove.
In contrast, there's a concept in the guidelines saying that a "challenge cache needs to appeal to, and be attainable by, a reasonable number of geocachers." So, reviewers did their best to enforce that.
Refusing to enforce concepts that are not in the guidelines, while enforcing concepts that are in the guidelines, is the antithesis of hypocrisy.
I know it isn't there. I also know there would be no way to really enforce it. Also I think cachers should be able to place hard puzzles if they want to like kunarion is talking about. This is for sure a rare case as most cachers I know want there hides to be found. What is the fun of placing them if they are never found. Seems like a waste. I wonder if the CO has ever gone out to check if after 5 years if they are still even there if someone was crazy enough to solve it now.
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If you found the log with many signatures then you found it. In my opinion anyways.
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No way for the reviewer to know. I would hope that if it happens again next year they will ask but if you play that way the chances are they will loose interest before next year in playing anyways.
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Impossible caches are ridiculous, next to ridiculous caches that two or three visits are good, as long as DNF are included. Get with the nature of the game, it should not be the like a Casino where the House is always stacked against you. It should an odds on even chance for the player. Other wise, it is all a waste of time.
In that case, I should archive Son of Boxzilla, since it's got only four finds. It's not a puzzle, and not a long hike, but it requires walking through waist-deep weeds and planning a way around thorn bushes (depending on the selected route) where there are all kinds of critters including probably some pretty big snakes.
Then there's my puzzle cache, Found only 5 times in the past 2 years. It's just a couple of years away from getting its own Forum Thread about how unsolvable it is.
I might someday make a puzzle that's tough. I'll rate it accordingly. If it's "unsolvable", I'll add a new clue later. If I feel like it.
Now these sound like awesome caches! Not found often is great and I think some of the best caches! To have out 5 caches or so for 5 years that have not been found once seems crazy to me.
I know there would be no way to enforce this but I think maybe one or two could be allowed if someone wanted to hide a impossible puzzle but after that it is kind of crazy. I would say after 5 years of no finds there should just be a reviewer saying....Thanks for placing this puzzle but apparently no one is interested in solving or finding it. We are going to open up the spot for a cache that someone might someday want to find!
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I don't see why they didn't leave them and then archive them as problems started to happen. Guess they didn't know better. I wonder if they collected the containers and why they left 2 active?
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I would say 4-5 years without a solve. NA! Ha just kind of kidding...well maybe but if no one can find it then why have it take up space.
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We are at .26 if I calculate favorite points from our caches to our finds. 3.5 if using the method here. These numbers are not accurate though because we maintain a few caches that we are not listed as the owners. Over the years it has just turned out that way for a few.
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I always like when I find a cache dated in the future! Not by someone trying to cheat or something but way off by months or even years! I will almost always say...WOW! This cache is so cool someone came back from the future just to sign it! and add a pic of the log!
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I try not to peg a TB I have in my possession to visit every cache I go to but my phone does it automatically. I usually manually set it not to. But don't see why if I didn't select it not to visit a cache that it would make anyone think the game was not as fun.