FetchPoint: The Game

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Yorkshire Pie Mar 2013 8:37am, 21 Mar 2013 11,008 posts	Quote Pin Yorkshire Pie But without a way of verifying where post boxes are placed or limiting how many you add to the map, what's to stop you loading them onto popular routes?
R4R Mar 2013 9:53am, 21 Mar 2013 1,859 posts	Quote Pin R4R yes, I thought of that - but it's like everything else in the game - it's about honesty Thinking it through - Postboxes to work a bit like traffic lights - they start with an initial value When someone runs thru them, they pay a fixed amount of postage to the 'owner', but decrease the 'value' of the postbox by that amount When the value drops to zero, they become available for seizure, by the next person to run thru them, who becomes the new owner, and the value gets recharged If the owner runs thru them, they get recharged - either by a fixed amount, or to the initial value At month end, they remain on the map, but the value drops to zero, and the first person to run thru them becomes the owner, and the value gets recharged
Little Nemo - slightly broken Mar 2013 9:58am, 21 Mar 2013 2,331 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo - slightly broken I'd like a random marker that did more than just give points. You could have one that would zap all the bugs within a certain distance, or would double the number of bugs or other random things. Don't know how easy it would be to set up though. Or maybe we could have Easter Eggs?
Vancouver Jogger Mar 2013 11:22am, 21 Mar 2013 3,407 posts	Quote Pin Vancouver Jogger It's a question of balance - between those in areas where they are all alone, and those who are over-run with neighbours; between those who live in built up areas and therefore can pretty much reach every part of their circle and those who only have one road running through their circle with 90% of it in-accessible. It's about juggling the scores and penalties so that for the average runner running an average distance an average number of times a week they'll potentially score pretty much the same whichever extreme category they come into - (by potentially I mean if they actively take part in the game and plan routes in accordance with coins, bugs etc etc). Good luck Fetch
Waveydavey Mar 2013 1:08pm, 21 Mar 2013 563 posts	Quote Pin Waveydavey Monkey tennis?!
CStar Mar 2013 10:58pm, 21 Mar 2013 1,470 posts	Quote Pin CStar My penn'oth - Fetch has about got the flowers right now I think. they are good and can help you earn quite a lot of points and you get credit for growing and watering them. The randoms are silly at the moment and are completely overshadowing everything else. +/- up to 5000, maybe 10,000, is more than enough. That way it would still be a gamble as to whether to run over one or not, but you don't get your entire month hammered if you get it wrong. Bugs IMHO are about right. Sufficiently annoying to require clearing rather than ignoring, therefore have to be taken into account when running, but it is not the end of things if they rack up for a couple of days when other things in real life gets in the way of running. Just an opinion on a game I have really enjoyed up until about 3 weeks ago.
Vancouver Jogger Mar 2013 11:13pm, 21 Mar 2013 3,414 posts	Quote Pin Vancouver Jogger I'd largely agree with CStar. Maybe flower cap could be a little higher. I'd do away with traffic lights - what's the point? Have relays worked or is their time up too? Bug penalties could go up a little - possibly. Definitely get rid of the large + and - scores for the randoms
Nellers Mar 2013 11:32pm, 21 Mar 2013 24,407 posts	Quote Pin Nellers Just lost 1,000,000 points at a random. A bit silly that.
geordiegirl Mar 2013 11:37pm, 21 Mar 2013 6,369 posts	Quote Pin geordiegirl careless Nellers Need to get myself out running, home now for the rest of the month (she says with the utmost confidence :-O) and only got 2 goreilla's dont think I've ever been this far behind unless I've been out the country on holiday for 2 weeks.
Waveydavey Mar 2013 11:52pm, 21 Mar 2013 564 posts	Quote Pin Waveydavey I'd get rid of the rewards for watering flowers as it disincentivises you from trying new routes. I agree that traffic lights are largely irrelevant, but I quite like them. Last month I managed to own 7 or 8 in line, which proved fairly lucrative.