Conquercise

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AndyS Jan 2022 5:41pm, 13 Jan 2022 772 posts	0 AndyS I'm thinking about of marking the pre-join activities of new joiners activities as expired - to avoid the problem that Fetch describes.
paulcook Jan 2022 6:40pm, 13 Jan 2022 336 posts	0 paulcook You would of course eventually lose them to a new more regular runner anyway.
Autumnleaves Jan 2022 7:10pm, 13 Jan 2022 17,696 posts	0 Autumnleaves I know - but I can battle for a bit (I am under seige from a couple of new Fetchies!)
philip_m_jones Jan 2022 11:03am, 16 Jan 2022 283 posts	0 philip_m_jones Conquercise does depend a lot on where you are and who else also is playing and you really don't have much control over that. If I run out in the US I can run through a square and I instantly own that square, so on a work trip out there (pre-Covid) I could increase my ownership by 20 to 30 with a reasonably conservative week's running. My home grid square is next to a sports centre and there are a few local fetchies who run from there most days so there are adjacent squares to my home square where I am hundreds behind the leaders. There are some fetch games such as hide and seek and who squares wins where the location gets normalised but for conquercise you really have no control so if new joiners are added or not it is somewhat irrelevant. On the other hand, I just got my grid up to 5. 6 seems a lot more work and I really like the Chilterns AONB to the west more than Slough to the east so 5 may be my limit.
Hanneke Jan 2022 11:05am, 16 Jan 2022 84,501 posts	0 Hanneke I am wondering what I need to do to get from 6 to 7...
philip_m_jones Jan 2022 12:22pm, 16 Jan 2022 284 posts	0 philip_m_jones >> I am wondering what I need to do to get from 6 to 7... The maths is quite simple, so for a grid of size n, you need (2n+1)^2 squares. The 6 grid is 13x13 (169) and the 7 grid 15x15 (225) so an extra 56 squares. I expect the reality is a lot harder as those 56 squares are all along the edge of your existing grid (plus 4 new corners).
Hanneke Jan 2022 12:29pm, 16 Jan 2022 84,503 posts	0 Hanneke Thank you! Yes, very hard as quite far away!
Hanneke Jan 2022 12:29pm, 16 Jan 2022 84,504 posts	0 Hanneke I may have added some yesterday, going to logbit now...
ChrisHB Jan 2022 11:22pm, 16 Jan 2022 21,465 posts	0 ChrisHB Subject as always to my ability to use my database correctly, I have 5039 contiguous zones out of 6411 total - the total is as of today, the contiguous is from Jan 1st so must now be 5048. There will probably be some significant joining of distant clumps of zones to my big clump of zones this year.
philip_m_jones Jan 2022 7:11am, 17 Jan 2022 285 posts	0 philip_m_jones Chris, what are your lawn and grid numbers? Both lawn and grid only apply to the last 365 days. Where are your disconnected clumps? Your map seems to show pretty much all of the south east plus the coast and canals across the country.