Are mass moveables fundamentally broken?
Posted: 11 December 12 11:00 pm
I find myself at a GCA crossroads.
I like the site for the extra (actual) caches, the forum, and the various stats views.
The advent of mass moveables every December, however, is close to driving me away from the site for the following reasons:
1. The cache list is swamped with moveables.
2. The cache density, hitlist and nearest unfound lists are similarly full of moveables.
3. Ditto the recent logs - hundreds of "found it" and "moved it".
4. I can't reasonably load them to my GPSr unless I update it every couple of hours.
5. Even if I do this, it is HARD WORK to work out what is and isn't at the listed coords - people find but don't move, find and hold on to them, move but hand to someone else, pass round at events and lose track of who took it.
6. When they go missing, there isn't a clear responsibility, as the cache owner wasn't usually the hider. There are three moveables in Southern Tas that have been mislaid for at least 6 months but still show up in all the views.
The occasional moveable isn't an issue, but this just takes over the entire site and makes it difficult for those of us trying to do some caching when we have time.
All this said, it's not do bad after the "game" finishes, but as I've mentioned elsewhere, there are still plenty of gnomes and frogs in the views, many of which aren't actually there.
Interested if there are others similarly affected.
RC
I like the site for the extra (actual) caches, the forum, and the various stats views.
The advent of mass moveables every December, however, is close to driving me away from the site for the following reasons:
1. The cache list is swamped with moveables.
2. The cache density, hitlist and nearest unfound lists are similarly full of moveables.
3. Ditto the recent logs - hundreds of "found it" and "moved it".
4. I can't reasonably load them to my GPSr unless I update it every couple of hours.
5. Even if I do this, it is HARD WORK to work out what is and isn't at the listed coords - people find but don't move, find and hold on to them, move but hand to someone else, pass round at events and lose track of who took it.
6. When they go missing, there isn't a clear responsibility, as the cache owner wasn't usually the hider. There are three moveables in Southern Tas that have been mislaid for at least 6 months but still show up in all the views.
The occasional moveable isn't an issue, but this just takes over the entire site and makes it difficult for those of us trying to do some caching when we have time.
All this said, it's not do bad after the "game" finishes, but as I've mentioned elsewhere, there are still plenty of gnomes and frogs in the views, many of which aren't actually there.
Interested if there are others similarly affected.
RC