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Wait…what? How can you do a puzzle because you still need to list the munzee at the location…You can’t use a dummy location.
On the Left Side of the Road...which was found in the most unlikeliest of places, most commonly known as
On the Left Side of the Road...I forgot about the virtuals. But it doesn’t appear it’s possible to do a puzzle or a mutli.
On the Left Side of the Road...Gonna bump this thread.
We were out caching last weekend and came across a munzee tag near a geocache. First off, the proximity wouldn’t bother me as a cache owner, at all. There is no way you could mistake a munzee tag with a geocache unless you were an illiterate idiot…well… 😯 … but I digress… Unless the tag is pasted ON a geocache (which the CO/munzee owner might actually want to do), I don’t see it really being an issue.
So, I fired up the app on the ol’ iPhone and scanned it. BIP! All done. You can write a log and rate the munzee if you want, but it’s optional.
Then we pulled up the map and were amazed at how many were actually planted. Nowhere near the density of geocaches of course, but there are a LOT in the Green Bay area.
To address some of the points made previously in this thread:
–No online log required with munzees so it’s for “lazy” players. Well, not really, but so what about the online log? I’ve said this before, but I think logging on geocaching.com should be OPTIONAL because. Yep, you read that right. Why? Because by forcing everybody to log SOMETHING, you get tons of craptastic, cookie-cutter, “enjoyed your cache” type logs. If you’re not forced to log something, it tends to mean the logs you do get are ones from people who have something intelligent to say.
–No review process. So what? Letterboxing gets along just fine without it.
-Proximity/density. So what? Any proximity rule is arbitrary anyway. Again, letterboxing gets on fine without it. (There does appear to be a proximity rule for your owned munzees)
–No quality control/hidden on every street corner. Meh, this is a complete red herring. I looked at the map and there’s a wide mix of placements from parks and trails to, yes, street signs, which I don’t particularly care for. But it’s not like geocaching is the standard bearer for quality placement any more and the majority of new cache placements are anything but inspiring.
–Litter. Another red herring. Someone’s munzee goes delinquent, you’re talking about a 2 inch tag somewhere. In contrast, geo-litter is almost always a container of some sort.
–It’s all about the numbers. So what?
The biggest drawback to the game I see is the complete dependence on technology. Yes, your GPSr can fail, but if you manage to find the cache you can still log it. With munzee if your phone takes a holiday you can’t log it. Also, as far as I can tell, placements are limited to “traditional” placements (at the posted coordinates).
In short, I think the munzee folks have some things right. It provides a lot of flexibility, placements are easy, most people already have the technology, and the impact is limited to 2 inch paper tags.
On the Left Side of the Road...Tom, I feel your pain…
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1648605
On the Left Side of the Road...I didn’t realize bumping an old thread would be so fun.
On the Left Side of the Road...Only if we can talk politics on the whole drive down… 😆
On the Left Side of the Road...@zuma wrote:
A sampling of what is on my ignore list:
GC1764C (Unfindable)
zuma
For some reason I remembered this listing and decided to look it up. It appears it is findable after all. Very intriguing….
On the Left Side of the Road...I am a HUGE fan of the Swiss Card.
Fits in your wallet and has everything you need–pen, tweezer, screwdriver, knife. A great little tool that lets you go caching even if you forget the geo-backpack.
Other than that, a copy of the puzzle solutions database for greater NE Wisconsin is handy to have. 8)
On the Left Side of the Road...There is a “highway” I drove in Arizona…can’t remember the number…it was a series of mountainside switchbacks. That was scary enough.
On the Left Side of the Road...Have found a few but unless we are on a rescue mission we leave them be.
We did find an unpublished cache in a spot we were looking to put a cache. So we signed the log and notified the CO! Turns out they had placed a cache and forgotten to publish it. So they removed it.
On the Left Side of the Road...@CodeJunkie wrote:
@peach107 wrote:
gr – i know. i just wish the ratings would remain the same as when logged. problem solved.
This would be good for a winter/summer cache rating also (assuming the CO adjusted it accordingly).
True. Lots of “hard water” caches that go from a 5 to a 2…
On the Left Side of the Road...@peach107 wrote:
gr – i know. i just wish the ratings would remain the same as when logged. problem solved.
Doesn’t matter peach…just a game. Like I said, we know what we solved 8) .
On the Left Side of the Road...I will admit it is disappointing when a 5/5 cache gets “downgraded” and we notice it on our D/T grid, but we know we solved and found it as a 5/5 so our disappointment is fleeting.
Do what you want, Peach. You’re the CO!
On the Left Side of the Road...No, no, and hell no.
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