+drsolly Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I was wondering whether people are doing challenges. That's apart from doing a few when they first come out; are folks these days seeking out challenges and doing them? Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Nope. And I don't plan on ever doing any. Quote Link to comment
+MrLifeboat Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I have no plans to do any. Ever. They are just not my cup of tea. Quote Link to comment
+Big Wolf Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Not for me either. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I thought about it, but then decided I can't be bothered, so no. Quote Link to comment
+Amberel Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I was wondering whether people are doing challenges. That's apart from doing a few when they first come out; are folks these days seeking out challenges and doing them? No. Rgds, Andy Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Nope. And I don't plan on ever doing any. Same here! They are as pointless as Whymarking Mark Quote Link to comment
+sibermouse Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 nope and tbh i probly never will do one Quote Link to comment
+*mouse* Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Nope - no interest, but I know lots of cachers who enjoy them so I guess they're a bit of a love/hate thing. Quote Link to comment
+baack40 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Nope could care less about them Quote Link to comment
+Team Pixos Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 My kids enjoy doing them. We don't SEEK them out but if one coincides with our activities we will do it Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 No. Not because we won't, or don't want to. It's because we're not out geocaching that often and when we do plan on being somewhere we (I!) forget to look and see what Challenges are in the area. If they appeared on the PQ, along with all the caches then we would choose to do any that looked interesting - the same as we choose which caches to do. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 As all the above really! Not really interested (apart from the nearest is 40 miles away) as we geocache for enjoyment and don't worry about the competition side of it... Quote Link to comment
+Graculus Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 No. Not because we won't, or don't want to. It's because we're not out geocaching that often and when we do plan on being somewhere we (I!) forget to look and see what Challenges are in the area. If they appeared on the PQ, along with all the caches then we would choose to do any that looked interesting - the same as we choose which caches to do. MrsB Plus when we are out I've usually got such a poor signal/data connection on my phone you can't check for any nearby anyway! Chris Quote Link to comment
+pklong Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I will do one at somepoint to try them out, but they are just not my cup of tea really. They don't quite work as a virtual cache replacement. Whilst I would do and enjoy a virtual cache (but not enjoy it as much as a traditional cache) they feel like a completely different game and I think that is the problem. Philip Quote Link to comment
+The Growler Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I'd completely forgotten about them. Think I'll keep on being forgetful Quote Link to comment
+metal-bijou Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Opps, yes. But only because Heff made me as we were passing your Amersham series of silliness. Will I do anymore - I hope not. While they are supposed to be the gap for virtual replacement but aren't virtuals, they also do not seem anywhere near as good as the virtuals that have survived. I wasn't around when publication of virtuals stopped but I can perhaps see what a farse they may have become and therefore appreciate the ones we have. Quote Link to comment
+ivanidea Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 No, only because they don't appear on the maps, which I use for seeking caches, so I don't think about them. Quote Link to comment
+mollyjak Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 No from me as well You KNOW a virtual will take you to an interesting place / area ( well all the ones we've done have) Will continue to do any virtuals we can Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Getting up in the mornings is challenge enough for me! Quote Link to comment
+squirtchy Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I wouldn't mind doing the 'worldwide challenges' or what ever they are called, meaning I could do them anywhere, like kissing a frog, climbing a tree, holding your boots up in your fav location, but I would only consider them if i was intending to climb a tree, I'm not going to go out of my way or make plans to do a challenge unless it's conviniently near to where I am going/ what i'm doing. It's a shame, I like the concept but it just hasn't kicked off. Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I'm off for some caching fun around Chalfont tomorrow. But I'll be ignoring any silly frog, or similar, challenges. In fact I'm ignoring them all. Period! Quote Link to comment
+Gushoneybun Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Done 7 so far, 1 up Snaefell then a few local ones when I was in the vicinity of them and had time to spare, one was 20 metres from a cache I was visiting so I got that one. I do not see the point of the worldwide challenges, ie take a picture of you on a hike or write your caching name out of stones etc. I have looked at the local ones to me and done some the local ones I will do I have added to GSAK and my Tomtom so will grabbed them if I am in the vicinity to one. Some of them are very good and give lots of info on the place so I like them, but others are near an item and say nothing, I will not do the latter ones. We are off to Florida next year so will probably grab some of them in the theme parks as we have done the virtuals in the parks already I did do some of the waymarks when last there, but got fed up with them. Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 People have been doing my two down in Cornwall but they both take to interesting places with geocaches around. Quote Link to comment
+The Chaos Crew Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 We haven't done any yet, but there are a couple of local ones I think my kids would enjoy, so I expect we'll get around to it eventually. I quite like the idea of them, just a pity they haven't really caught on yet, plus as others have said, they don't appear on maps or in PQs so it's easy to forget they are there. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 (edited) I enjoy them, generally. I'm up to 22 now and a few published, a few more on the way. Problem is, a lot of what's out there now isn't generally "people's cup of tea". They're irrelevant, and sometime just plain not fun. I look at them as opportunities to have fun, to learn, to experiment, and just to pass some time. Like others, if I'm in the area and I check for a challenge, I might do it. With most being "go here and take a picture", it's not really fun, per se. I think they'll get 'better' as the cream rises to the top and the rest fade away. Hopefully the quality is honed in time. But they're just too loose and open and unchecked to really be something that people will actually seek out and complete. I think the only reason they're nearly as active as they are now is because of the visible challenge count by some users' names. Otherwise they'd be essentially invisible to joe geocacher. Get them as options in PQ's. Provide them on a map. Do something, or they'll just have their own little community of people and never really grow. They have potential. Groundspeak just needs to fix it up. A lot. Right now they're something fun to do. Sometimes. =P Edited October 28, 2011 by thebruce0 Quote Link to comment
+HazelS Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I've done one, but only because I was passing. I don't intend to do others unless I'm physically there anyway, I'm not going to make any special journeys. Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I sometimes do a few waymarks, but I still haven't seen why challenges are superior in any way so I've ignored them. Quote Link to comment
+Original A1 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I've done 5, but find they've not been presented very appealingly which I suspect fails to encourage various people. What I mean is that I can't click on others' profiles to see what challenges they've done, in the way you can for found caches. Also, I believe you have to specifically list an area you're visiting to see what might be around, so it's very much a hit and miss operation. If Groundspeak addressed these issues, the latter by way of a map showing what's where like they do with caches, then perhaps there would be more of an appeal. I write this as someone who's not actively cached for a month, so perhaps there have been updates which I've not seen, but you get my drift... Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I've now completed 11 and created 5. I'm not sure if it will hold a long term interest for me. Just like Waymarking I gave it a try when it first came out but just didn't hit the spot. It doesn't help that once you have created a challenge you no longer have control over it and don't even get update emails when someone logs it. That is despite Groundspeak saying they would introduce the email feature in the last update. Basically they were supposed to replace virtuals, just like Waymarking was, but they aren't any different to Waymarking, so I think it may fail. Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Basically they were supposed to replace virtuals, just like Waymarking was, but they aren't any different to Waymarking, so I think it may fail. Sooner the better! However, the only time I am aware of them is when I see the under people's names on logs All other evidence of them has been removed with GM scripts and ABP filters Mark Quote Link to comment
+sssss Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Nope, not really bothered about it. If I were then I would have got into Waymarking. Quote Link to comment
I! Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Eek. Is that your new Halloween blood orange or something? I did a challenge today ... but it was my own one Needed something to keep the kids occupied, and an hour and a half chasing coloured signposts did the trick very nicely. Not going to log it as accepted/completed, though, so apart from that it's just the one challenge completed (when they first came out) in my case. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Eek. Is that your new Halloween blood orange or something? I did a challenge today ... but it was my own one Needed something to keep the kids occupied, and an hour and a half chasing coloured signposts did the trick very nicely. Not going to log it as accepted/completed, though, so apart from that it's just the one challenge completed (when they first came out) in my case. Going back 2 or 3 years, it was fairly common for people to change their forum avatars for Hallowe'en and/or Christmas. Hence MrB created our Bloody Blorenge. I'm sure you could make your cat spooky for a few days. Quote Link to comment
+Shanghai Joe Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 (edited) Eek. Is that your new Halloween blood orange or something? I did a challenge today ... but it was my own one Needed something to keep the kids occupied, and an hour and a half chasing coloured signposts did the trick very nicely. Not going to log it as accepted/completed, though, so apart from that it's just the one challenge completed (when they first came out) in my case. Going back 2 or 3 years, it was fairly common for people to change their forum avatars for Hallowe'en and/or Christmas. Hence MrB created our Bloody Blorenge. I'm sure you could make your cat spooky for a few days. Challenges? I've resisted so far, taking a photo of me standing beside "insert object here" is hardly a challenge. Except for the camera Edited October 29, 2011 by Shanghai Joe Quote Link to comment
+Arenalife Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 haha the irony of people saying they don't see the point, have you ever explained any kind of geocaching to a normal person? Quote Link to comment
+Gackt Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Yes, have done a couple recently. I do not often get the chance to travel far, so having mostly cleaned up the few miles circumference of Geocaches around my home location, challenges provide something else I can look to do. There do look to be a few excellent ones out there. I have accepted this one, and am longing to do, but it will be some while before I can get there: http://coord.info/CX1494 I would love for a few more similar to that one to pop up a bit closer to me. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 There do look to be a few excellent ones out there. I have accepted this one, and am longing to do, but it will be some while before I can get there: http://coord.info/CX1494 I would love for a few more similar to that one to pop up a bit closer to me. For me, therein lies the problem. The Challenge you linked to looks excellent, and I might be interested in doing challenges like this, but there are so many rubbish "take a picture of yourself outside McDonalds/Starbucks/KFC" type challenges that it's too much effort to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Quote Link to comment
+Dr Evil. Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I don't plan on doing any, they are not my cup of tea. Quote Link to comment
+mellers Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I've done some of the worldwide challenges and some local to a place I was visiting a few weeks ago, (11 in all so far). Some are better than others. Having completed the worldwide challenges - together with all the (sometimes complicated) attendant criteria, I was disappointed to read other "completion" records for the same challenge, which often didn't include all the required information. It seems that there is no arbiter of quality for saying "I've done it" on the worldwide ones and it seems that you can pretty much post anything and claim to have completed it. I realise that the sheer numbers combined with the volunteer status of geocaching reviewers make auditing these completion records impossible, so perhaps the privately owned ones are better. I've not done any local private ones yet - as at a few weeks ago, there were only 2 local to me. There are now about 15, so I'll have a look at them, but wouldn't go out of my way to complete them. I would complete them if I was geocaching in the area anyway and fancied a diversion. It's a different game to geocaching and traditional cachers may not find them interesting, but some seem to. Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I realise that the sheer numbers combined with the volunteer status of geocaching reviewers make auditing these completion records impossible, so perhaps the privately owned ones are better. Privately owned ones are no better. As I said here you lose all control over your own created challenges. There is one specific post on one of mine that the person couldn't be bothered attempting the challenge so they said they had a better one and posted something completely different. I would love to be able to delete the post but I can't. The best I could do was comment on it that it wasn't what was requested. Quote Link to comment
+Pieman Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I did one that was very good when they first came out, although it has since been archived as it didn't meet the Challenge criteria- which to be fair it didn't, as it involved finding where the Superlambanana statues had moved to in Liverpool and so wasn't located at one specific place. Looking at the ones that are allowed, I don't find them of interest and some are plain stupid and attract high negative scores without being archived. I am an intrigued to know whether high negative scores will get a Challenge archived which I thought was implied when they were launched. I actually suspect that they all will continue to sit there in perpetuity whatever the score if they meet the listing rules. Quote Link to comment
+DonB Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 No, I see them as a poor excuse for the old virtuals. Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 There do look to be a few excellent ones out there. I have accepted this one, and am longing to do, but it will be some while before I can get there: http://coord.info/CX1494 I would love for a few more similar to that one to pop up a bit closer to me. For me, therein lies the problem. The Challenge you linked to looks excellent, and I might be interested in doing challenges like this, but there are so many rubbish "take a picture of yourself outside McDonalds/Starbucks/KFC" type challenges that it's too much effort to sort out the wheat from the chaff. My problem with them is this; Sandford Levvy. Compare with the the link above! The site already had the facility to add these "challenges", and all Groundspeak needed was to spend a few dollars on a few tweaks. Quote Link to comment
+Croesgadwr Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Nah, not for me...but no doubt some people will thrive on the challenge of a challenge. It takes all sorts, and after all who am I to say they shouldn't?? Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I did two when they first came out: Held my breath while driving through the Conwy tunnel (up the road from me) and wrote my name on the beach (at the end of my street) ... what can I say? .............. BORING! Nope, not my cup of tea either. Quote Link to comment
+weston wanderer Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 No, i have absolutely no interest in them at all. I don't see wha tthey have to do with caching. Quote Link to comment
+weston wanderer Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 No, i have absolutely no interest in them at all. I don't see what they have to do with caching. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I'll just say don't throw the baby out with the bath-water. Most so far really aren't that fun or challenging or noteworthy. But there are good ones out there; they could informational, educational, fun, challenging, entertaining... throwing out Challenges as a whole because some people aren't putting effort into them is sort of like (puts of flame suit) abandoning geocaching because of LPC's (ymmv). The system needs a LOT of work, but if people start putting out worthwhile challenges, even though it's a free-play system right now, perhaps that will help boost the quality a bit. At least until GS starts improving that system itself. Quote Link to comment
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