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Apr 2014
12:31pm, 29 Apr 2014
1,051 posts
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DocMoye
same for me rev.....its lonely here!
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Apr 2014
12:34pm, 29 Apr 2014
2,115 posts
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RevBarbaraG
You said it twice, just to hear someone speak? 
I have a fetchpoint competition with Pedro_Perez, who goes to the same parkrun as me. At the moment, I'm ahead of him for both the month AND the year, despite him logging more miles, so I am winning hands down.
I don't know whether he knows we're having a competition.... he probably hasn't noticed....
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Apr 2014
12:55pm, 29 Apr 2014
970 posts
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CumbriAndy
R4R - the fact that the 'new' owner received a value of 1 point makes me wonder if there's a possible explanation.
Be warned - this is going to sound very nerdy. I would invite anybody with anything remotely useful to do to skip ahead to the next post.:)
As I understand the rent markers, they begin with a maximum 'value' of 100 points but that value decreases by one every time somebody runs through it. If untouched they 'live' for a week. So a marker created on day zero, has it's value reduced by one seventh on day one, one sixth of the remainder on day two, one fifth of what's left on day 3 and so on down to zero on day seven. The displayed value on every day is rounded to the nearest whole number. So if a rent marker was seeing lots of hits, you could theoretically hit a point in time wher ethe remaining value was, say, 0.4 in the system database - this would be displayed as zero on our screens but would still be owned by the person who last claimed it for themselves - only when it went down to a zero value in the system would it be available for reallocation - and if 99 different people had already paid rent then it's maximum available value would be one point. We get used to seeing our own rent markers recharging to something near 100 because so few people go through them in our own isolated patches.
That's a theory - and the only line you need to completely undermine it would be to tell me you haven't seen multiple rent receipts from that traffic light ove rthe past week or so. It also doesn't go anywhere near the question as to why the second one failed to refresh to the value expected.
For those who have just read all that - and now have their mind bent out of shape - I did warn you at the top
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Apr 2014
1:18pm, 29 Apr 2014
3,044 posts
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alpenrose
Mind boggled here! (in lieu of a cross-eyed smilie.)
Glad you cleared that one up then CA.
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Apr 2014
1:24pm, 29 Apr 2014
3,149 posts
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Rosehip
Rent markers don't quite fulfil their original purpose now that other aspects of the game have been altered. 100 credit is small fry cmpared t the value of coins for instance. I understand why they don't charge on weekends otherwise they could be placed near popular race routes - but then other people would only run thrugh mine on a weekend, so owning them locally is pointless.
incidently - I think it's a post weekend thing that befuddles the scoring/ownership - probably several people passed the marker oer the weekend so tha value went down but they weren't charged and something in the script then goes awry at the 0 point ????
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Apr 2014
1:25pm, 29 Apr 2014
3,150 posts
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Rosehip
scuse the typos, can't find my glasses and can't read phone screen without them!
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Apr 2014
1:33pm, 29 Apr 2014
2,293 posts
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R4R
admittedly 100 points is small fry, but a rent-marker starting at 100 points has potential for about 5500 points if enough people run through it in quick succession - you get 100 off the 1st person, 99 off the 2nd, 98 off the 3rd etc, down to 1 off the 100th, and if you refresh it in the meantime, it goes back up to 100, so the cycle could be repeated many times
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Apr 2014
1:36pm, 29 Apr 2014
2,294 posts
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R4R
CA - it's not only you who can be nerdy
btw, I'm up in your county this weekend, but nowhere near you I'm afraid, so no mutual flower-fests
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Apr 2014
3:53pm, 29 Apr 2014
17,126 posts
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Night-owl
That would be good R4R if you had enough people running in your area
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Apr 2014
5:08pm, 29 Apr 2014
3,151 posts
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Rosehip
not may races other than vlm and the like that would get the full 100 runners though - and to exploit a loophole then one of the MK marathon course ( bank hol monday ) might be worthwhile?
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