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Oct 2019
7:26pm, 9 Oct 2019
13,803 posts
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Rosehip
 I also have one corner (although getting it meant I missed my Fetchpoint bug )
I think I can get one of the others, but I'll need some careful grid repositioning to get the other two
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Oct 2019
10:35pm, 9 Oct 2019
4,870 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
The multiplayer final appears to be a strict north - south divide!
I am toying with moving my square to the town I work in for the winter as it has a lot more streetlit areas than my village. But it's impossible to avoid either an area of the Moray Firth, or inaccessible farmland. And the dog will suffer without an extra incentive to give her a few miles on a cold dark night!
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Oct 2019
10:39pm, 9 Oct 2019
43,428 posts
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Velociraptor
There is no way I can get my "home" grid to have the three accessible corners I need while still including the streetlit part of the town
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Oct 2019
1:37am, 10 Oct 2019
674 posts
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JCB
It's definitely not easy with inaccessible areas. (I've put in some feature requests with different ideas for those interested.)
I have to correct an earlier statement I made about inaccessibility... "If you have at least half of the squares accessible then it's not too limiting" or something similar.
In general that's true. For 1v1 you only need to own at least half of the squares. However owning is different to visiting, and if one person visits 150 squares and the other 200 squares on the same day, the person visiting 200 squares will own 50 more squares than the other player.
It becomes murkier with multiplayer.
As an extreme example maybe you can access 175 squares. Seems good. Plenty over the half (being 113 for majority).
You visit all 175 squares every day (no mean feat!) There are 7 other players, and each one visits 50 squares every day. Maybe each player visits the same squares each day, and broken down as follow:
- 25 of them are shared with you and only you,
- 15 of them are shared with you and one of more other players,
- 6 of them unique to them, and
- 4 of them shared with one or more other players (but not you).
Your score: 175 visited, 0 owned
All other players: 50 visited, 6 owned
Cake: 175 of your accessible squares + 4 to 33 of your inaccessible squares (42 of 75 being owned by someone)
🧐🤓
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Oct 2019
8:32am, 10 Oct 2019
41,333 posts
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alpenrose
Blimey JCB, do you have time to go to work?
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Oct 2019
8:52am, 10 Oct 2019
675 posts
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JCB
I had more but truncated it.
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Oct 2019
9:00am, 10 Oct 2019
29,358 posts
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
Meanwhile, back in mid-table, remember that the next multiplayer game will start on Monday and you need to be in the top 128 at noon on Monday to be sure of qualifying for it.
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Oct 2019
9:18am, 10 Oct 2019
676 posts
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JCB
Egnys, looks like you have a blank opponent for this week?!
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Oct 2019
9:34am, 10 Oct 2019
18,641 posts
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flanker
JCB is giving me a clue why I'm not very good at this - I just go out and run and see what squares I get. Apparently there's more to it than that
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Oct 2019
9:40am, 10 Oct 2019
4,069 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
The other issue with lots of inaccessible squares is the amount of ‘out and back’ routes so the second half of the route scores 0
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