Pocket Query size

[Team Black-Cat]

Woo Hoo!
Groundspeak will be change the number of caches in a single pocket query from 500 to 1000. The head frog even promised that this will be in place by May 2nd this year.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Guess when you finally have over a million active caches, something’s gotta be done!

[CodeJunkie]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

Woo Hoo!
Groundspeak will be change the number of caches in a single pocket query from 500 to 1000. The head frog even promised that this will be in place by May 2nd this year.

Yep – That’s a hard change for a programmer to switch 500 to 1000. 🙄
(This of course assumes they used good programming practices like defining a global variable – i.e. one change only)

[cheezehead]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

Woo Hoo!
Groundspeak will be change the number of caches in a single pocket query from 500 to 1000. The head frog even promised that this will be in place by May 2nd this year.

Ya, but are you going to get all them caches in one day? Then what ya gonna do?

[bartrod]

Are they able to download attributes to PQ’s now without scrambling up the works? I know that had been an issue for quite a while. I’d prefer them improving that to adding more caches 😀

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[Team Black-Cat]

AFAIK the attributes issue has been fixed for a while.

CJ, the issue with changing to 500 wasn’t a programming issue as much as a performance issue.

cheezehead, I have no desire to EVER find 500 caches in a day. If I cache with someone else, I probably won’t know their exact route ahead of time, but just a general area. I have mis-guessed a few times and not had the right area (or not a big enough area) loaded. Creating a “caches along a route” PQ with a 1 mile width hardly gets me out of the state before I get 500 caches.

Regarding 500 caches in a day, it can probably be done here.

[SammyClaws]

You know, it might turn into a performance gain. Instead of running 3 querys to cover the area I want, I can cut that down to 2 querys and get more caches.

[RSplash40]

MmMmMmMmmm…500 in day…

[cheezehead]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

AFAIK the attributes issue has been fixed for a while.

CJ, the issue with changing to 500 wasn’t a programming issue as much as a performance issue.

cheezehead, I have no desire to EVER find 500 caches in a day. If I cache with someone else, I probably won’t know their exact route ahead of time, but just a general area. I have mis-guessed a few times and not had the right area (or not a big enough area) loaded. Creating a “caches along a route” PQ with a 1 mile width hardly gets me out of the state before I get 500 caches.

Regarding 500 caches in a day, it can probably be done here.

Oh, I know it’s been done. But heck, I’m haapy if I get only 1 a day.

[marc_54140]

I look forward to the change.

I have one PQ for puzzles, one for multis, etc, for the state. But these caches (ones I have not found yet) keep creeping over 500, so I miss some.

Also, just a PQ on traditionals, covering a wider area will be nice. I plot them out on a mapping program, and then eye ball where I want to run a Tour.

Next …. will bookmarks also go up to 1000. I was surprised to see Markwell on the GC forums wonder who ever needed that many.

[gotta run]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

Regarding 500 caches in a day, it can probably be done here.

This is the kind of stuff that will be the slow death of this game, IMHO.

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[Team Black-Cat]

@marc_54140 wrote:

I look forward to the change.
Next …. will bookmarks also go up to 1000. I was surprised to see Markwell on the GC forums wonder who ever needed that many.

I think Markwell gets caught up in the “This is how I do it. Why would anyone want to do it differently?” mentality of the Groundspeak forums. He certainly knows how to use the search feature of that website, though. 🙂

I can’t see any reason for them not to change bookmark limits to match PQs. How big is your WSQ bookmark now?

[Team Black-Cat]

@gotta run wrote:

This is the kind of stuff that will be the slow death of this game, IMHO.

Oh come on! What could be more fun than visiting hundreds of electrical towers in the Nevada desert?
I can’t wait to start reading some of the exciting logs from all of those caches. 🙂

[CodeJunkie]

@gotta run wrote:

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

Regarding 500 caches in a day, it can probably be done here.

This is the kind of stuff that will be the slow death of this game, IMHO.

This is actually interesting, IMHO. I’ve been in this area and I think the terrain ratings are different out here than in WI. This is out in the Mojave desert and looking at some quick topo maps the terrain is pretty rugged. Maybe a good entrepreneurial venture (i.e. renting atv’s, dune buggies, etc. to cachers or maybe providing the driving services).

But – Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

[gotta run]

Well, this is getting OT but TBC brought it up and started the thread so I’m blaming him…

On one hand, I can see the appeal of these trails to go out and do a “let’s do a big numbers day.” And in this particular area the terrain might be interesting, particularly if you go by ATV, etc.

But I’m just not sure that what gets people interested in geocaching is the allure of finding hundreds of filmstrip cans spaced .1 mile apart.

Yes, I know the game has lots of different things for different players and literally a million different caches, but the preponderance of placements lately seem to be roadside hides. I don’t think that fosters the stated goal of geocaching as a “high tech treasure hunt.”

I could be wrong, and if I am I’m sure I’ll hear about it. 🙄

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