Feature requests

Moving Duels, one of the three duel modes, doesn’t do a great job of representing the skillset that Moving-main players have developed over the years. While often fun and enjoyable to play, winning moving duels doesn’t actually require finding the exact location. Occasional 5Ks do happen, but the focus is mostly on guessing quickly rather than with pinpoint accuracy. On top of that, if a player gets multiple 5Ks in a moving duel, all that hard work can easily be erased by a single round with high multipliers. Pinpointing remains the most underrepresented skill in GeoGuessr - a huge shame considering how fun, immersive, and fast-paced it can feel, and how well it showcases the different aspects of the game. Pinpointing Duels have existed as a community-made client-side script for the past few months - and very successfully so, despite all the limitations of it being just a simple extension. To watch some highlights and learn more about the mode, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WCRYrYIxs and check out more on Jake Lyons’ channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jakelyonsgeo/videos In short: First to win 7 to 10 points wins the duel. Rounds last 1min30s with a 15s after guess timer. Players are awarded one point for 5k-ing first, and one point for having a closer guess. There are two extra mechanics: 1) Tie-range: ensures insignificantly closer guesses don't win anyone any points and 2) Penalty for sending early and not 5k-ing: discourages insta-sending and keeps focus on pinpointing. We’re confident that you could make this mode even better than the community-developed addon, both for solo and team duels. We invite you to discuss it with your player base and make it official as soon as possible. We’d be happy to help in any way we can.

If a user is found to have cheated, rating should retroactively be refunded for all players who played against the banned account. Currently we resort to emailing support, but this should just happen automatically.

I think it would be great if players could access and play past Daily Challenges, even if they missed them on the original day. It wouldn’t count toward the daily streak, but would simply be available as practice challenges. The Daily Challenges are very well-designed and could really help players improve, especially in movement mode. I'm thinking about starting to play them daily and felt I could learn a lot by reviewing and practicing previous ones.

Only have 6 emotes is unfortunate, having a goat and skull emote would go crazy.

I think it would be a nice feature, if you could write your opponent after a game without being friends. So that you could ask for example, how he got country xy right. I think it would be a nice feature for improving yourself. But the other player can respond later, so the chance would be increased that someone responds.

After completing the daily mission the claim button appears briefly in the top right hand corner of the screen, but often disappears before you can click it, Then when you exit the mission, You have to then go to the club page or main page to claim. Even then, I often have to refresh the page for the claim button to show, this is unnecessary and laborious and could lead to missing XP being allocated to the club even though the mission was completed, surely an automatic allocation feature could be a logical fix?

Only allow 1 account per player in Ranked mode. Geoguessr is one of the only ranked games that has the top of the leaderboards full of Alt accounts. Other games have solved this issue by banning Alts, Only allowing 1 account Per player in Ranked mode

Especially since the UI change, a lot of players often have to refresh the game to get rid of lag or avoid bugs. Almost every duel I play I have to refresh at least once. It used to be that it would put you directly back into the game, meaning that at least it was a quick process. Now when you refresh it puts you on the duel leaderboard screen and you have to click "rejoin" to get back in the game. Why? What purpose does that serve? It just makes the process slower and more annoying, and there have been a few times when the extra time it took meant that I couldn't place my pin down before the timer ran out. Please change this back. Thank you. Edit: I forgot to mention this part, but this would also solve the common bug where there is no "rejoin" option after the page is refreshed, leading to an automatic loss.

It would be super helpful to be able to teleport to the location of your mate if they find something useful.

Right now, to see today's Daily Mission, I need to click the "Reveal" button every day. Yes, it's just one extra click, but I think it's unnecessary. In UI/UX simplicity and ease of use are important. I suggest showing the Daily Mission immediately in main menu, without needing to click any extra buttons. Thank you for your attention!