Geocaching Challenges

[Handyman-N-Fam]

I'll bring it up...
Thoughts? Likes? Dislikes?

[Mighty_Mo]

[SuchaNana]

[Handyman-N-Fam]

Ok, I'll start.
I LIKE that you can remove archived challenges from your accepted list now.

[Handyman-N-Fam]

Also...
The challenge app for droid and iphone is much better and easier to use than the challenge portion of the geocaching website.

[GoodDog]

Unless they have changed things since inception:....
You get no credit for creating a challange as a "hide" or even your name on it
you get no notification when someone accepts or even completes the challange
you can only upload one pic
you can't do a PQ
you have no maps
you can't even do a "find similar caches by ......." or "of this kind"
you ( go with it) GC archives caches with no notice so the "owner and any "acceptors" don't even know it.
you can't log an archived challenge
you can't even look at archived challenges
you can't even see who else has found it once it's archived. It just disappears.
you can't go to someone's stats and see if or how many or what challenges they have found.

I loved virtuals, and even locationless ones (before they got stupid), but until GC addresses the above questions, challenges just are not geocaches. Does't mean I won't hunt some, but I won't be placing anymore. I think I had the first one in the area and they archived that one in 4 days, and the second one got archived the first day. No explanations.

So for now I'd put them in the same class as Waymarking. Something you can do with a GPSr, maybe have some fun, but it ain't geocaching.

[GrizzFlyer]

What Good Dog said.....

I just don't see the point in them. Might do 1 to get the icon. Maybe.

They should be in their own little website, like waymarking.

[TeamMina]

Ok, I'll start.
I LIKE that you can remove archived challenges from your accepted list now.

Yay!!!!

[TeamMina]

Also...
The challenge app for droid and iphone is much better and easier to use than the challenge portion of the geocaching website.

The iphone app is better, as it shows more nearby results than the .com.
And it shows how many have completed your challenges, and look at the pictures. Where at gc.com you have to click one each one separately to see what's been going on.

[TeamMina]

We think the whole thing would've turned out better if it was made clear in the beginning that "worldwide/locationless" caches must be approved by geocaching before publication. Off the implementation of the project, it looked like many people went on early examples, and got their Challenges removed because of it.

Now that it's been worked out a bit, they do feel more like the old virtuals. Only with pictures. Not like in the beginning of Challenges, when everyone panicked (including us) that a picture of someone kissing a frog now counts as a geocache find.

We've made up several now, and it's cool to have a couple of pics of geocachers you know doing the requirements at cool places you asked them too.

[T-Hunter]

I am still trying to figure out how the things work

[TeamMina]

We are going to place a Challenge in front of a friend's house in Paulding County.
It will require of you standing there with a turkey in one hand, and a GPS in the other.
Should be a good one...

[SuchaNana]

i did do the first challenge in NWO, kissed that frog and am still looking for my prince....
i did get a smiley on a fun day out doing something ...

[TeamMina]

It does also give you the opportunity to take silly pictures of yourself in front of silly things.

[Handyman-N-Fam]

You don't need challenges to take silly pictures.