Change the Daily Challenge Map
under review
clumsy
The Daily Challenge as it is right now has many flaws.
1) Too much Trekker Coverage: Mostly, you either simply know or don't know the location due to lack of info and/or the unusual nature of the loc. Not suitable for a 3 min moving challenge.
2) Too many no info rounds: Rural rounds with literally 0 info make the 3 mins of moving nothing but a waste of time. I'm not saying every round must include info for an easy 5k, but such rural rounds would be better placed in a NM/NMPZ challenge.
3) Dead Ends: It's happened twice the past weeks that moving was restricted to ~50 m in each direction without info nearby. This sadly makes it obvious that the rounds aren't even checked beforehand.
4) Country Distribution: From June to August 2024, Israel/Palestine had 15 appearances, Guatemala had 14, Puerto Rico 11. Why are such rather small countries featured this often, while big countries like the U.S. or Indonesia had 10 appearances each? The Dominican Republic appeared 5 times, as often as Germany. Bermuda appeared 3 times, while many countries didn't appear at all.
Good job on the Curated Challenges, but please consider changing the map to 'AOW', 'ACW' or a similar map which is respected in the community and is suitable for moving. Thank you for reading!
Filip
under review
Juliette
I don't mind some of the randomness but it would be really nice if somebody checked the DCs beforehand for very dead-endy rounds and for the Christmas Island and Galapagos trekkers so we don't keep getting them :-) Also some locations are just boring - I remember one recently where we spawned in Rotterdam station in front of a massive sign with the name of the station!
First Time Player
I like the occasional inclusion of dead end, trekker, or no info rounds. As someone who otherwise either by necessity plays ACW when duelling, or practicing other maps with official coverage to improve, the more quirky locations in the Daily Challenge gives some variety to the type of rounds I'd usually play elsewhere.
clumsy
First Time Player Fair enough but most Trekkers and dead end locs are simply not suitable for a 3 minute Moving game.
First Time Player
clumsy Then just save time and guess after 2 minutes! Christ. It's hardly a big issue.
clumsy
First Time Player I can guess after 10 seconds, doesn't change the fact that such rounds are ridiculous in this 3min Moving format. Christ.
DrHowardBannister
I'll add that the repeated locations are super frustrating. It's not as bad as a few years ago where it was like "here's this one location in Isle of Man repeated week after week" but getting Christmas Island more times than the United States or Brazil is really silly.