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Jen HB
Jen HB
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Can we decide if its a visit or an attach on a castle?
Sushi
Sushi
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Don't think so Jen.

Think its an attack if you have dynamite and a visit if you dont.

Though I think if you have some dynamite but not enough to take ownership your visit costs less and you damage the castle.
Diogenes
Diogenes
6 Jul
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I have a question: This morning I started a dog walk from a different location in my grid but it’s not showing as explored. What did I do wrong? If you select keep as is does that assume you are starting from a defined position instead of the actual location? I think I incorrectly thought that gps would recognise that I started north of my last starting location and would map the walk accordingly.
Jen HB
Jen HB
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Have you done another activity from your 'normal' home point.? The cleared grid is relative to the start of each activity, so if you go 3 squares north, and 3 east (say) that would clear. If you then went to Antarctica the same squares would be already cleared from your new start point
Dvorak
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6 Jul
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I was confused in a similar way, but there was Fetchplanation. Wherever you are, that's the middle of your grid. The moving of your start point is a convenience only: to show where objects will be, relative to your start point.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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I know what I did wrong: ‘Keep as is’ is choosing between using your current location and using a self-defined starting location. I was thinking it was a three way choice and it’d fix my starting location in the place it was for my previous activity. Instead of which I just started in the centre of my grid again.
JamieKai *chameleon*
JamieKai *chameleon*
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All activities start from the centre of the grid.
Sushi
Sushi
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Yesterday I walked one way from home (where I start most activity)

Saved and then ran back.
The blob in the middle is the runs/walk loops from home. The long bits - left is walk out and right is run back.

Its helped me get my head round it

Diogenes
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Yes, I know Jamie, in which case the Leave as is button is redundant.
Jen HB
Jen HB
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@Sushi I had similar with a bike ride which made it make sense. Not a lot of my routes seem to head far north from my start point...

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I have decided to build a new version of Fetchpoint, and for now at least I am calling it Fetchworld.

The original Fetchpoint was first launched in 2011 - and I don't know of anything else that was like it at the time. The closest thing I was aware of at the time was geocaching - but nothing virtual like this. It predated Pokemon Go by five years :-)

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