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Feb 2015
8:33pm, 24 Feb 2015
599 posts
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mick173
Meglet, YP and Badger you are correct And I've dropped fetch a couple of fmails about it. If you use a turbo trainer and turn off the gps signal it will record the mileage and plant flowers at point 0,0 as it has no other postional data it defaults to 0,0, I believe it also does the same when using a footpod on a treadmill. If you have the gps signal on when on a turbo the flowers are planted at the location you did the turbo session which is usually your home point thus nothing appears in fetchpoint as its inside your home circle.
This does happen on a fair number of times during the winter when people train more indoors.
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Feb 2015
8:46pm, 24 Feb 2015
600 posts
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mick173
Forgot to add that I believe once planted they do not increase in value should you upload another turbo session and the session does not pick anyone else's flowers that are already there either, so the only points gained are those for the initial upload. I also believe that after about a week the flowers disappear anyway probably as part of Fetchpoints housekeeping routines.
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Feb 2015
10:56pm, 24 Feb 2015
15,727 posts
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Meglet
Ah that's it then. There must be a few Fetchies with that as a home point, as there's bugs, lights and Goreillas there. But then why are there flowers?
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Feb 2015
12:03am, 25 Feb 2015
601 posts
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mick173
Meglet not sure why there bugs lights etc at 0,0 and surrounding area, it is no ones home point as far as I'm aware otherwise flowers would not be planted. The reason for the flowers is that by recording mileage without any data points the system defaults these to 0,0. Therefore anyone doing a 10 mile turbo session with GPS turned off will have 20 flowers planted at 0,0
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Feb 2015
8:55am, 25 Feb 2015
14,004 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
Meglet - I think we have found the Fetchpoint store cupboard 
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Feb 2015
2:38pm, 25 Feb 2015
600 posts
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Waveydavey
It's either the store cupboard or we've discovered Atlantis!
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Feb 2015
3:57pm, 25 Feb 2015
8,082 posts
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alpenrose
I love the sound of Atlantis.
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Feb 2015
1:41pm, 26 Feb 2015
2,527 posts
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R4R
a case of good news / bad news after my lunchtime walk -
someone has moved away from the area, so I planted a couple of flowers
I also moved a detonator, so those flowers will get blown up tonight
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Feb 2015
6:14pm, 27 Feb 2015
First-time poster!!
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philip_m_jones
So I am new to the game and wonder if there are obvious tactics I am missing. I have run 25 days in February and covered over 200 miles and I have scored about 850,000 points, so 8x behind the leaders. Now, I trust they are not running 1,600 miles so I am missing something.
As I see it:
Bugs: don't care about these. I loose maybe 5,000 points a day due to bugs but that is only 150,000 a month so a drip in the ocean. Same pretty much with rent markers, 100 points is not here nor there. The game has to be about collecting big points.
Coins do add up, but again not to the numbers that make the leader-board, so maybe 50k a day tops.
Flowers look good. Say I run 5 miles a day, 6 days a week. This is 3 miles outside my home and so maybe 7 flowers planted each and every day. Follow the same route and on day 2 you water the 7 flowers and plant another 7. Flowers mature in 6 weeks, so I have watered each flower 36 times and so they are worth 30k each, so 210k points a day. Big numbers, but that is 6 million, maybe make top 3 but have to run the same route each and every day.
What am I missing?
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Feb 2015
6:15pm, 27 Feb 2015
2 posts
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philip_m_jones
Oh, like the noobie sticker.
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