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Aug 2012
5:05pm, 8 Aug 2012
11,532 posts
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fetcheveryone
As things stand, they will stay alive until they are harvested by another runner - but I can see that's not going to work long-term. If you've got a path that you run along that no-one else does, it will gradually fill with flowers. But hey, lets see how it goes 
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Aug 2012
7:25pm, 8 Aug 2012
12,307 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget
Do you get 100 points only once per run from a flower or is it worth me running up and down the avenue several times?
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Aug 2012
7:32pm, 8 Aug 2012
12,308 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget
I was just trying to work out why one of the bugs that was there this morning had vanished. Then I noticed the line of flowers stretching roughly eastwards from just outside my circle. I have been visited by a Fetchpointer and now have flowers to pick
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Aug 2012
9:41pm, 8 Aug 2012
12,309 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget
OK. I have just tried out the flowers. My account says that I moved a flower 0.11 miles. The one planted by the unknown Fetchie is still in the same place and as I expected I have planted one outside the village pub. Have I gone and confused the system?
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Aug 2012
9:49pm, 8 Aug 2012
11,534 posts
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fetcheveryone
I think it may well just be the reporting. I'll have a look in the morning.
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Aug 2012
10:26pm, 8 Aug 2012
1,554 posts
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R4R
certainly looks like the reporting: ' *flower* R4R moved a bug 0.15 miles away' reported 10 times for the 10 flowers I should have harvested- and they are still there. Coincidence that previous line reported *bogey* was moved same distance ?
Didn't note score before uploading, so don't know whether got the points or not - but I suspect I did
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Aug 2012
7:02am, 9 Aug 2012
158 posts
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lak
Not sure how this flower change will help solitary runners(sob sob must by more deoderent). Whilst swarms of flowers were bad they seemed unpredictable and clearly not fair- I dont see how the new scoring will hope those with no runners near by. For example in a rural area there are often few roads so most points are not accessible. There are no other runners so coins on my one road are now gone (still have a few bridle paths to clear) and my flowers planted yesterday score only 250 each no one can run over them other than me, Went to solicitor in a town yesterday walked about 1.5 miles from car logged as cross training and scored 22000 points+ where as my 5.1 m run only scored 2000 as there are very few roads and I am the only runner.
Never mind will have to get bike out and go steel points from neighbouring towns .
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Aug 2012
7:38am, 9 Aug 2012
11,784 posts
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Ted
lak, I need to travel a bit to get to 'other' runners territory too. I think that by getting 100 points for each flower planted is a 'little' compensation. Every now and then someone ventures close to where I live but, not often.
If places are more densely populated then it will be harder for flowers to be planted. I think that Sir is trying to find a happy medium between populated areas and us out in the sticks..
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Aug 2012
7:39am, 9 Aug 2012
1,301 posts
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Jerboa
Hmmm, I thought the idea of flowers was to help even things out between city players and solitary players, surely this new method of scoring with flowers just puts it back in favour of those with others players near them.
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Aug 2012
7:43am, 9 Aug 2012
11,785 posts
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Ted
I have just realised that due to a change of route* after I started my run that I didn't go outside my mile circle. No bugs squashed. I am glad that I didn't ask the Laird the same question that he has been asked every month since November.
*Too much fog and no footpaths = death potential
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