There's a multi in Afghanistan that is supposed to be 17 stages. a fellow cacher and I would take breaks over several days apart (sometimes weeks) to work on this one. We plugged the coordinates into my laptop to plot out how the trek went. You were definitely ponging all over the base, but a lot of the stages brought you to places you wouldn't necessarily know about until way further in your deployment there. Besides, it broke up the monotony of day-in, day-out routines. The owner even placed a little prize for cachers at all the stages (one prize for a person at each stage... and he even asked people to not take a prize from a later stage if grabbed one from an earlier stage), and you could tell how many people tried by how the prizes were still there at the much later stages.The only bad part was that a couple of the stages went missing, and we had to email the owner to let me know. (It wasn't always muggles, construction is a constant state of business out there). Well, the last day that I was in country, we headed out, with the latest coordinates from the owner (yes, a stage went missing), and I was expecting to find the typical stage, but we landed smack dab right on the final stage. That was a thriller, especially for being my last day in country.
Great, now I am going off-topic. Ok, so I guess I'm saying that if the multi-ponging has a reason (unique sites, something to keep you occupied, do something interesting), then it shouldn't be bad.