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Jan 2012
7:55am, 21 Jan 2012
658 posts
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Alice the Camel
After having acquired around 4 - 8 new bugs a day for the last few days, I have no new bugs overnight.......
Bazoaxe, why don't you move your home point a mile down the road, clear of some of the inaccessible areas?
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Jan 2012
8:05am, 21 Jan 2012
9,167 posts
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Meglet
This can't be right. Bug penalties up from 40 to 110. Number of bugs up from 7 to 18! And there's only one of those that could be due to any overlap of circles. 
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Jan 2012
8:50am, 21 Jan 2012
1,709 posts
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southendal
Has anyone submitted a report on the apparent bug, bug, as it were?
I have repeatedly recieved more than the promised 2 over night, as have most of? us, I think.
Maybe Lord Fetch is just unaware of the problem?
For the record I got at least 4 new ones overnight.
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Jan 2012
8:58am, 21 Jan 2012
71 posts
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Bensey
Interesting comments recently about the number of bugs and FetchPointers' strategies to maximise their scores by squishing bugs. There is another strategy that says: run every few days, plan your course to maximise the number of coins collected, ensure the run crosses your one mile marker so that any bugs collected get moved outside, but focus on coins and don't worry too much about bugs.
The key to the coin-collecting strategy is to run every few days so that the bug-penalties are insignificant compared to the coin-collecting points. If you only run once a week, then it might be better to focus on bugs, but otherwise I think it's better to focus on coins and not the bugs. Discuss.
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Jan 2012
8:58am, 21 Jan 2012
1,076 posts
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Phil_N
I went up from 8 bugs to 25. Just been out and got rid of all except 4. 1 I missed, 2 were in accessible and I couldn't be bothered reporting them before going out and 1 that was a bit out of the way. Oh and 32,000 points in the process! Suppose I shouldn't grumble
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Jan 2012
9:23am, 21 Jan 2012
659 posts
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Alice the Camel
Good point Bensey - totally agree. But I can also understand why it's easy to become obsessed by bugs!
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Jan 2012
9:37am, 21 Jan 2012
3,761 posts
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Bazoaxe
Agree bensey.....I ran to clear out bugs this morning, but it took me to areas where coins also build up and for 6 miles I scored 13000 points.
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Jan 2012
9:50am, 21 Jan 2012
939 posts
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Jerboa
I agree too Bensey but it is disheartening when you haven't got an opportunity to get out and exercise because you work shifts and have masses of other stuff going on in your life, then two or three days-worth of bug penalties can seem horrendous. For me, the coins are a bonus on the way to shifting bugs because of where I live and the spread of the bugs over and awkward but not impossible landscape.
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Jan 2012
10:02am, 21 Jan 2012
1,548 posts
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Vancouver Jogger
Planned route to clear 12 bugs, added another 10 this morning - turning a 6.2 mile run into a 9.8 mile run. Most of the bugs survived and so now have a super herd just outside my 1 mile circle awaiting a mass squishing session just before the end of the month. Route planned totally with bugs in mind and for the first time this month managed +1000 points per mile, scoring 14124 for 9.8 miles. Only 4 bugs left in the circle now.
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Jan 2012
10:10am, 21 Jan 2012
3,142 posts
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Badger
I'm running 3-4 times a week and logging some cycling as well (commutes diverting to hit bugs), and focusing on bugs.
It's keeping me on the leaderboard, is all I'm saying
Never seen the bug penalties as high as they are today.
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