When I started playing the LCG years ago, the cut-off for lonelies was usually about 8 months. I haven’t played much the last two years because there just aren’t a lot of lonelies in my part of the state, and the ones that there are I either have already found, or they are mine. I think that there are a number of factors that have impacted the LCG. One is that there are simply more caches than there were 10 years ago. More caches = more lonelies. I don’t know if expanding the size of the list would help or not. I see that a lot of the lonely caches are puzzles. Maybe the answer is to take puzzles off the list. That wouldn’t bother me, since I am not good at solving puzzles. Maybe we need to look at the bonus points. Maybe we should raise the cut-off for double points to 3 years and 4 years for triple points. Or maybe we give double points to the oldest 25% and triple points to the oldest 10%. I don’t know what the answer is, but I am glad that we are discussing it.
