Wheel of Challenges

[+barefootjeff]

Following on from my post in this thread in early August, here's an update on the numbers from Project GC giving the souvenirs issued for each of the challenges thus far:

 

                                              Easy                Medium                 Hard

April (Smileys)                 191852               121587                22573

May (Favourite Fan)       146481                    -                        34218

June (Out & About)          67194                  32303                17351

July (Streak Star)           140395                  29693                13088

August (Iconic Cacher)   22239                      -                      15173

September (Teamwork)  27771                      -                        4574

 

Interesting that, although the August challenge seems to have had the least participation (and perhaps the least interest), almost 70% of those who completed the Easy level went on to find the other 5 icons to get the Hard level. This month's challenge will likely score highly just from people's day to day caching, whether they're going for the souvenirs or not.

 

 

[+Hügh]

If you'll allow, another column -- the (minimum*) number of distinct players that ran the PGC checker:

 

7 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

                                              Easy                Medium                 Hard        |

April (Smileys)                 191852               121587                22573      |   4625

May (Favourite Fan)       146481                    -                        34218      |   (no checker)

June (Out & About)          67194                  32303                17351       |   4400

July (Streak Star)           140395                  29693                13088       |   4052

August (Iconic Cacher)   22239                      -                      15173       |   3831

September (Teamwork)  27771                      -                        4574       |   (no checker)

 

(*minimum: Project-GC gives the number of successful attempts, and also the number of unsuccessful attempts. Each player can only count against each counter once. So the number I give is min(pass, fail); a lower bound for the number of distinct players who used the checker. The true number is likely higher.)

 

Not sure if any Lackeys are still following, but to my eye that looks like a fairly large number of players using an (if I may: third-party, not-sponsored, not-well-advertised) tracking mechanism. I know that you already know that we want this (0:12:55.6); but maybe these numbers will bring it up the priority list.

[+Team Canary]

15 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

Following on from my post in this thread in early August, here's an update on the numbers from Project GC giving the souvenirs issued for each of the challenges thus far:

 

                                              Easy                Medium                 Hard

April (Smileys)                 191852               121587                22573

May (Favourite Fan)       146481                    -                        34218

June (Out & About)          67194                  32303                17351

July (Streak Star)           140395                  29693                13088

August (Iconic Cacher)   22239                      -                      15173

September (Teamwork)  27771                      -                        4574

 

Interesting that, although the August challenge seems to have had the least participation (and perhaps the least interest), almost 70% of those who completed the Easy level went on to find the other 5 icons to get the Hard level. This month's challenge will likely score highly just from people's day to day caching, whether they're going for the souvenirs or not.

 

 

 

August the lowest? 

 

All you needed was a Traditional, an Event and an AL!?!

 

Which was the problem, surely not the Traditional. So the Event, were there none in the area? Or the AL, is there a silent majority who ignore them, like I do?

[+MNTA]

1 hour ago, Team Canary said:

 

August the lowest? 

 

All you needed was a Traditional, an Event and an AL!?!

 

Which was the problem, surely not the Traditional. So the Event, were there none in the area? Or the AL, is there a silent majority who ignore them, like I do?

Some of us choose to not do Events. Also I skip wherigos. So did not achieve the souvenir.  Unfortunately this month I'm moving two kids into college next week and moving myself so managed the easy going to skip the hard one and I'm ok with that.

[+Max and 99]

The leaderboard is now on the app?

 

[+BirdSearcher]

On 9/12/2023 at 9:46 AM, Max and 99 said:

 

The leaderboard is now on the app?

 

I don’t see a leaderboard icon on my profile on the app..

[+Max and 99]

17 minutes ago, BirdSearcher said:

I don’t see a leaderboard icon on my profile on the app..

Me neither and I've been checking for app updates for 24 hours (9.35.1 latest version, last update Aug. 30). I messaged HQ yesterday and have not yet received a response.

I really expected an official announcement.

Edited September 13 by Max and 99

[Neos2]

The leaderboard symbol should be on the top right corner of the profile page. The symbol looks like two peoples heads and shoulders. It's just to the left of the settings button on my unit. 

[+HHL]

3 minutes ago, Neos2 said:

The leaderboard symbol should be on the top right corner of the profile page.

No. That's just opens a list of friends. That's definitely NOT the leaderboard.

[Neos2]

About the leaderboard

This is a leaderboard that displays the geocaching activity of you and your friends. If you log a cache, attend an event, or perform other geocaching actions, you collect points!

 

https://www.geocaching.com/play/leaderboard

Edited September 13 by Neos2

[+Max and 99]

4 minutes ago, Neos2 said:

About the leaderboard

This is a leaderboard that displays the geocaching activity of you and your friends. If you log a cache, attend an event, or perform other geocaching actions, you collect points!

 

https://www.geocaching.com/play/leaderboard

Yeah, so where is it on the app?

[Neos2]

3 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

Yeah, so where is it on the app?

Oooh, things are changing as I type almost.

I just opened my app again and have a Wheel of Challenge page when I go to my profile page. That tells me how many souvenirs I have earned so far, among other things (milestones, stats)

In the top right corner of the profile page is a symbol that looks like two peoples heads and shoulders. It's just to the left of the settings button on my unit. That used to show me my friends list and how many points each of us had this month toward the challenge (a half an hour ago). Now that just shows me my friends and lets me short cut to contact them. 

[+Max and 99]

1 hour ago, Neos2 said:

That used to show me my friends list and how many points each of us had this month toward the challenge (a half an hour ago).

Interesting as I've been checking for the last 24 hours and have only seen a list of friends. Are you sure you weren't looking on the website? 

I wish HQ would respond:

a. We spoke too soon and the icon is not yet on the app. 

or

b. You're all blind. It's right on the app where we said it was.

Edited September 13 by Max and 99

[+Max and 99]

5 hours ago, Neos2 said:

I just opened my app again and have a Wheel of Challenge page when I go to my profile page. That tells me how many souvenirs I have earned so far, among other things (milestones, stats)

The wheel banner has been there since March.

Milestones and Statistics, etc. since May of 2022.

I find it odd that the leaderboard is being added to the app just as this long wheel promo ends. 

But I cannot figure out why HQ has not responded to the issue.

Where is the leaderboard in the app?

Edited September 14 by Max and 99

[Rock Chalk]

19 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

Interesting as I've been checking for the last 24 hours and have only seen a list of friends. Are you sure you weren't looking on the website? 

I wish HQ would respond:

a. We spoke too soon and the icon is not yet on the app. 

or

b. You're all blind. It's right on the app where we said it was.

 

It was an error in the blog to state that the leaderboard was in the app. Sometimes the leaderboard is in the app if there is a special leaderboard promotion, and the blog author thought that was the case here. The blog is being corrected now. 

 

To give some context, we generally aren't able to follow all forum threads to seek out questions like yours. I looked up your email to HQ and you didn't actually ask a question, nor did you mention that the blog had indicated that the leaderboard was visible in the app. Instead, you expressed surprise that an announcement about the leaderboard had not been made. Since there was no question asked, I don't think the Lackey who saw your ticket could have known to look into the blog issue.

[+Max and 99]

I do not recall the leaderboard ever being in the app.

 

[+barefootjeff]

A couple of weeks in and I'm halfway there with 500 points, although I'm struggling to see how those points have anything much to do with the Teamwork theme. 50 came from finding a 12-year-old inner-city multi (a mint tin though surprisingly not rusty) with 23 FPs from 650 finds, 150 points came from 6 other finds on mostly new caches that haven't had time to accumulate many FPs, and the remaining 300 points were from finders giving FPs to my hides.

 

However, I expect a more teamwork-oriented caching weekend coming up should get me over the line for the Hard souvenir, with an event I'm attending on Saturday and a group kayaking venture on Sunday targeting a bunch of caches along a stretch of river in southern Sydney.

[+elrojo14]

On 9/11/2023 at 3:19 AM, barefootjeff said:

Following on from my post in this thread in early August, here's an update on the numbers from Project GC giving the souvenirs issued for each of the challenges thus far:

 

                                              Easy                Medium                 Hard

April (Smileys)                 191852               121587                22573

May (Favourite Fan)       146481                    -                        34218

June (Out & About)          67194                  32303                17351

July (Streak Star)           140395                  29693                13088

August (Iconic Cacher)   22239                      -                      15173

September (Teamwork)  27771                      -                        4574

 

Interesting that, although the August challenge seems to have had the least participation (and perhaps the least interest), almost 70% of those who completed the Easy level went on to find the other 5 icons to get the Hard level. This month's challenge will likely score highly just from people's day to day caching, whether they're going for the souvenirs or not.

 

 

 

I am looking forward to seeing the final stats next month. It is very interesting that so few received June easy. Streaks are tough so the low numbers for July make sense. August completely puzzles me except to fully understand people do not like events and/or ALs. 

[+DreamMachine74]

5 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

A couple of weeks in and I'm halfway there with 500 points, although I'm struggling to see how those points have anything much to do with the Teamwork theme. 50 came from finding a 12-year-old inner-city multi (a mint tin though surprisingly not rusty) with 23 FPs from 650 finds, 150 points came from 6 other finds on mostly new caches that haven't had time to accumulate many FPs, and the remaining 300 points were from finders giving FPs to my hides.

 

However, I expect a more teamwork-oriented caching weekend coming up should get me over the line for the Hard souvenir, with an event I'm attending on Saturday and a group kayaking venture on Sunday targeting a bunch of caches along a stretch of river in southern Sydney.

Nice work! I've had to go on a few caching trips to get closer to completing this. I'm going out for a few caches today, but don't expect to get many. I think I'll earn the last souvenir on the 1st of October, as there's a CITO happening in a place I very rarely geocache in, and some older/more well loved caches are there.

[+barefootjeff]

8 hours ago, elrojo14 said:

It is very interesting that so few received June easy.

 

The June easy required finding caches on 5 days during the 28 days of the challenge. For anyone in full-time work who can only go caching at weekends, that could have been tough, especially if kids sports, other family commitments or even just the weather prevented caching on some of those weekend days. Even for me being retired, I was still only able to get out caching on 6 days during that challenge as, unless a new cache is published locally, pretty much all my caching these days is long trips away.

Edited Monday at 09:22 PM by barefootjeff

[+Deepdiggingmole]

On 9/10/2023 at 12:07 PM, tyke said:

I read the FAQ stating that AdLabs would be counted throughout the campaign as a promise.

Note to self : - dont read anything on the FAQs as promises 

[+Harry Dolphin]

I've been taking some long day trips to find caches with ten or more favorite points.  Not having the best of luck.  Oh, well.  But I have gotten four favorites on my Webcam cache!

[+CCFwasG]

On 8/31/2023 at 2:33 PM, Max and 99 said:

On a glance of your finds I do not see an earth cache listed. No one can see your adventure lab finds so that's one you may want to double check on also.

Although I would be happy to be friends here, @Max and 99  my privacy settings shouldn't be showing you my find types I think? (screenshot attached). But if anyone else wants to test my privacy stuff, I'd love to know if the settings are not working! 

Weirdly it turned out I had done a write note for the earthcache and not posted a find, so that's fixed and I got the souvenir. i.e. User Error on my part 

 

[+Max and 99]

52 minutes ago, CCFwasG said:

But if anyone else wants to test my privacy stuff, I'd love to know if the settings are not working! 

It doesn't work as well as you think it does. That's how I could tell your Earth Cache log was missing. It takes about 10 seconds to look up your latest finds. Sorry to disappoint you. I really am.

Edited Tuesday at 06:26 AM by Max and 99

[+HHL]

8 hours ago, CCFwasG said:

But if anyone else wants to test my privacy stuff, I'd love to know if the settings are not working! 

The settings work as expected. There is only one back door, which was probably used by Max and 99.

[+Deepdiggingmole]

19 hours ago, Harry Dolphin said:

I've been taking some long day trips to find caches with ten or more favorite points.  Not having the best of luck.  Oh, well.  But I have gotten four favorites on my Webcam cache!

I have two trails of hand made and quirky / sneaky caches as well as a webcam cache - between them they have got me 1400 pts on the latest wheel of challenge - happy with that :-)