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It's already my favourite game. But I'll happily get involved with free stuff. Sounds great!

oooo...excellent

What Angus said

Are any of them in Cornwall?

'citing

I love prizes!
To encourage us to explore more, may I suggest that we don't know when we have been through a secret zone (also stops blabbing and everyone heading for the same zone), but that at the end of the month we have a list of who was in the draw.

I was thinking that the zone would only trigger one entry. So blab away

Liking that idea

Awesome sauce!

I have majorly fallen in love again with this game since the changes... all sounds good and lovely!

I'm definitely getting back into Conquercise with the changes and reminders and stuff. Prize draw sounds good

Sounds like a good incentive to keep me in. (Even though I never win anything.)

A cyclist will win

Why?

I just mean they're more likely to, since they go through more zones than we do with their 2-wheeled cheating devices.
At the very least, free-wheeling downhill should be excluded

I'm up for free prize draws

Could you merge Conquercise zones for cyclists? 3 x 3 or 4 x 4 zones at least. It would make them more equivalent to running zones. (Cycling is a sitting down sport.)

It looks good to me.

Yes, although I love it already!

😀 I need to learn more and explore more

As long as they are not all concentrated in the sarf, like the Goreillas were on Fetchpoint. Got to be equal incentive for us runners wot live in the sticks.

I used to read the fmails about the checkpoints but I never went out on a run with a view to joining checkpoints or beating my times on particular checkpoint. Perhaps I hadn't really 'got it' before now. I'd noticed the fmails had been replaced by notifications but when I run again this week I will take a bit more notice of it and seek out particular checkpoints to connect... however I have no better ideas than yours I'm afraid, sorry!

BTW posting blog comments following links from FaceAche loses them. I'll rewrite it all later on a proper keyboard...

I'm like Baroness. Because there are often different ways to get between checkpoints, I was never really sure if the 'faster' or 'slower' information was correct. It was info after my run rather than a purpose for the run though.

Can you put back the conquercise notifications please? I find it difficult to work out which ones have changed ownership after uploading an activity. There did used to some in the bar didn't there?

I'm not sure about Checkpoints, but that may be because I am usually last for any Checkpoint pair. Though I did get one on Zante which I thought was vey random and wondered why it was even there,

I use the checkpoints as an indicator as to how my training is going, and I do sometimes do speed sessions based on a pair of checkpoints to try to beat my best time. I don't really pay any attention to other people's times for that connection though.

must admit it's a game I don't really get at all. Rarely look at it.

I'm not sure I'm in the target market for the games that revolve around route planning - I mostly run tried and tested loops over and over again - so sometimes it's nice to see a new Checkpoint PB. If I do plot a new route it's based on the mileage I'm aiming at, safety and surroundings - and generally getting away from the immediate area. This is why Fetchpoint ultimately defeated me as I got tired of feeling like I 'had' to run around within a mile of the house (all residential side streets) collecting bugs before I could go anywhere interesting! Very occasionally I look at Conquersize for a zone that I haven't reached yet - but the ones local to me as yet unconquered are largely so for a very good reason - the fact that you might be risking life and limb to run there. I also agree with LD that where there are several ways of running between two checkpoints the time improvements are sometimes just because you've run the shorter route?

I like checkpoints as I often run the same routes, and just occasionally I'll put in a fast time on a section of one of them and get a PB. If it's not as fast I do like to see how far off I was. I don't really compare my times with others ( others running in my area tend to be men....so doesn't seem fair comparison) Maybe could added seasons best times for checkpoints? Or even personal league table for an individual's most common check points ( maybe most frequently run 5 checkpoints say)with monthly best, seasons best, PB and average. Then you could compare your days run with your own personal achievements.

Thanks Fetch

I confess I used the fetchpoint email as a way of checking easily (because it used to "bing" on my mobile) whether the data had transferred sucessfully from my wattch to the Garmin site to Fetch wherre it was useful (which process seems be be a lot less reliable than Fetch! :-)). (There's a suggestion in there in it's own right!)
The thing that always puzzled me was there were so many ways to go between the same 2 checkpoints, and some of the connections were only possible on the map if you had wings or swam the river, so I never got too bothered about the times & distances. One of the rare places where Strava/Garmin is slightly better is in the use of "segments" - fixed points, shorter distances. Sort of like the championship connections you're proposing, I think.
If I'm getting the "you've got faster" mails then I'm fairly happy for that alone, but sadly I won't get many of them.
Good to see you trying to make it better though, always. Thank you.

I use it to see if my pace is better or worse than my best time between points. I also look to get a faster time occasionally by looking for a shorter route Also occasionally I look to connect new points so I have many connections from one point.
The latest problem I have is the square around me doesn't cover closer checkpoints because my main checkpoint is on the edge of the area, if my main checkpoint could be centralised that would be better.
Also I have a large junction at my main checkpoint and start running at various sides of the junction so consequently I have several checkpoints on one junction.
Thanks for your time and efforts sorting these games out for us all and caring what we think and want from each game.

I think this "game" is rather pointless and as I'm no competition for the likes of Marigold and Antclark I think I'll stop "playing".

I think the post I lost earlier went something like this...

I don't really 'get' CP as a game - there seems to be no competitive element to it, especially as routes between CPs are often comparing geographic apples with geographic pears. Unlike the concept of strava and Garmin segments, which are generally based on defined sections of a known and popular routes, checkpoint connections are random. It seems to a be a lot of data and very little game. If I do score anywhere on the leader board it's by chance and of little interest. It's one real use was to tell if a run had appeared via Garmin, and that has now gone.

I think the only way to properly gameify it would be to allow every user to earn the write to add their own segments. Maybe everyone starts off with two segments and earns the write to create more by moving up leaderboards, and if they move down they lose those credits and their segment gets wiped. Is this competitive component, or another approach to getting credits, enough to differentiate it from Strava? If not, I'd question whether it is a good use of your time. I think the competition needs to be about routes rather than randomly joining two point.

Red and white one at the bottom of the pic for me please

Black and red one top right please.

Black and yellow one pretty please

Please can I have a red and yellow one ?

Great! Please may I have the green and bronze one, 3rd from right, bottom row. Thank you.

Black and red at the far right of the top row, please.

Can I take one please, don't mind which colour!

I would love any of the blue and white ones please

Meaning any one of the blue and white ones, not all of them! That would be greedy

Yes please don't mind which colour

theyre lovely- they have a basket full of them keyring bits brand new in my Oxfam - not sure what your mum pays for them but theyre 10p each I think- I'm happy to pick a load up for you and I can bring them over to my next parkrun

Rmo3b - that's very kind, thank you - but my mam is a global trader - she gets all her bits and bobs directly from China, and buys wool 500 balls at a time (which she flogs to her fellow addicts at knitting club to cover her costs). But thank you, that's very kind.

One for me please, any colour

500!

Yeah. Minimum

Love these! I'll take one, any colour

hello, my kids would love these: could I have 2 please? Any colours!

Please can I have one, if there are any left? Any colour. Thanks

I voted Cconquercise, wih Fetchpoint a close second. I did prefer it when all-time records counted towards zone ownership because it seems a little unfair that years of domination count for nothing after a while, but I do understand that this makes it a bit more interesting for newcomers to an area. I thought I use to get a notification when someone else took control of one of my zones. Has this changes? I'd also just like to admit that I did spend a while looking for the comments box on the poll before catching on, so any problems are very probably between keyboard and chair.

Conquersize again. I too wondered at the demise of the all-time total (seeing as I moved), but I can live with it. I like the idea of covering new zones, I don't go much out of my way locally, but because I go away hiking regularly, I Like visiting new places (and pubs) in order to get zones, especially the long distance walks I've done.

Fetchpoint, although the lack of prizes means that it has gone off a bit now. I hope you are suing the makers of Pokemon Go for stealing your idea!

I like Conquercise and it makes us more active when we are on hols! Agree with CStar, shame the prize has gone from Fetchpoint. Love UTMOST too but it does seem to favour the longer distance runners as they have all their times automatically added.

Conquercize, despite the new rules. I like the visual representation of where in the world I've run/exercised and I'm amused by the idea of 'owning' bits of the country. My other favourite game is Thingy-thon, although it's not really a game I suppose.

Conquercise just edges it over Fetchpoint - I like exploring new places! I also miss the all time totals, as my zones tend to be places few other fetchies have been to. No chance of ever owning my home zone as there's an Ultra runner round ere.

Fetchpoint is fun but there are just too many bugs - I lose thousands of points every day and running up and down every side street near home to clear them is much less fun than going on long runs / rides away from home. IMHO.

So I do a good trade in flowers but get wiped out if I don't run near home for a week or two...

I check both of those after most training!

UTMOST I used to like as I was going up fairly often due to players not playing anymore and getting faster. Now I think I'll mostly be going down due to not racing as much. Ihave a very fast 5 mile time I don't understand too!
Betting I've never understood the game and the new layout doesn't help (but then I've never really understood real betting!)
Checkpoints not really my bag. Not a fan of segments on the other thing either and now Garmin are shoving them at me too. Nah.

I voted Utmost - I find it fits nicely with trying to improve my race times. I do Conquersize but now the notifications seem to have stopped (?) I don't often look apart from when I now I've been somewhere new. Whilst I like the idea of checkpoints I don't really get how it works with the cycling v running thing. I tried Fetchpoint but it didn't really suit me (I had the same thought about Pokemon Go though!).

Fetchpoint was a big incentive to get out there for me, until I moved to rural Wiltshire where the number of inaccessible bugs draining my points every day caused me to stop looking. I haven't quite brought myself to press the "stop playing" button though...My new favourite is probably Conquersize although I'm not seriously hooked yet.

Actually, my favourite game at the moment is probably run the sum! Although I don't run everyday, on the days I do I like the challenge of exceeding a set distance.
I like UTMOST as it brings out the competitor in me. When approaching a race I like knowing what time I need (usually unobtainable) to gain a place/avoid relegation!
I loved fetchpoint when it first came out but then I started training more with other runners and had less control over where I ran. That, and the loss of the prizes, meant I stopped looking at the map so often and now when I am planning the route I often forget to check fetchpoint first.

Conquersize is great for when I'm away as I like to see new zones on my map and it forces me to explore!
Checkpoints I can take or leave.
Betting I have only ever dabbled with.

fetchpoint is easily my favorite (i do miss the gorilla grabbing aspect of it now that there are no prizes) but want to also put a good work in for checkpoints. Nice to have a little local competition going on

Conquercise (followed by fetchpoint). They fit around my ethos of running - to go explore new places. They also help choose areas for long runs to visit. I also thought there was a notification when someone nicked my zones, so I knew to go and grab them back! Utmost, betting, etc don't really do much for me as they are just something that happen rather than being something you can directly influence (i.e. I can choose to go and visit a new zone each week; I can't choose to have a 5 min PB each week to move up the leaderboard).

DocMoye above ^ has said it all for me.

Conquercise, with the same new rules misgivings, I used to love getting an fmail saying I'd lost Barcelona to some fetchie on holiday, or a part of Horsham to Mercy

For me it's a close call between Conquercise and Fetchpoint, with Conquercise just edging it. I like the rule changes. We just need a third colour on the map to indicate zones explored, but not visited in the last year

For me it's a close call between Conquercise and Fetchpoint, with Conquercise just edging it. I like the rule changes. We just need a third colour on the map to indicate zones explored, but not visited in the last year

Like that ^^^ idea

Is there an easy way to search the Stickerbook to find new Fetchie contacts?

Rich - there's no stickerbook search, but you can type their name into the site search up there ^^^^

Fetchpoint is my favourite but gone off the boil now we don't need to hunt down Goreillas or anything. Utmost is better as a monthly thing. Checkpoints - I don't see the point so I'm going to stop playing, especially since you've moved the Notification from an fmail.

I also agree with GC re Fetchpoint bugs, losing the will to live trying to shift them.

But I thought pARKRUN wasn't a race?! ........

I can't hear you, I'm wearing MASSIVE HEADPHONES.

So will we be told what day/time the promotions/relegations will be so we know when we need to have logged our results by?

Do we have to re-enter if we're already playing?

Westmoors - the divisions will update around 12.01am on Monday mornings.
LindsD - no, if you're an active player, you should be fine. Follow the link in my blog to be sure.

Fab. Thank you!

I'm in. Hurrah!

I live a stones throw away from chiswick but unfortunately there's barely room for me!

I noticed it because I keep clicking on Train instead of Forum I am fully adjusted to the new mobile site, off to make myself a Brexit hat.

I thought the blogs had gone completely (perish the thought!). Glad to see they've been promoted

Liking the mobile site a lot - getting used to the other one!

I'm much more used to the mobile site now. I've downgraded my 'Worst Site Ever!' to an 'Indifferent' and on to an 'Actually Quite Like It Now'.
The route picture on the front page still doesn't fit though, landscape or portrait. (Windows Phone). That's no big deal though.

THAT'S why I've clicked on Train instead of Forum twice in the last 10 minutes
Nice to see I am a) paying attention, b) able to read and c) capable of learning from my mistakes.

i never used to use the mobile site as i found it too much like hard work....its definately got a lot better

The mobile site is fantastic I like it a lot.

I do too. And I'm making my Brexit hat right now (after I've put my phone down obv)

Don,t use the mobile site at all just click through to desktop on my phone, tablet automatically defaults to desktop. Mobile will too when I work out how.
Totally confused by headers now as I just usually click on position...

Phew... for a moment I thought blogs had gone somewhere.. I've been doing the same as Mazlin ^ except on Wiki expecting it to be blogs

I had noticed that Forum had moved and was just about to click on Blogs. I haven't had much cause to use my phone or tablet, mainly because they make my eyes go funny (blurry).

After being a complete misery. I love it. Keep up the great work, Ian. It must be great to have a job that positively effects others. *thumbs up*

Yes, simple things like that make us happy
The MOTM vote now thingy was a bit weird on my iphone 5 this morning now, it wouldn't dismiss the box even after I voted. Not sure what was going on there but it was fairly minor and only happens once a month...