FetchPoint: The Game

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milemonster May 2020 11:23am, 7 May 2020 204 posts	0 milemonster 1030 points in one day, chuffed. This is wanting me to work from home long term.
BrightStrider May 2020 12:43pm, 7 May 2020 59 posts	0 BrightStrider Vancouver Jogger, I have a zero density too, but a number of traffic lights in my circle. I think it is more to do with activity than the number of residents.
Vancouver Jogger May 2020 12:46pm, 7 May 2020 4,710 posts	0 Vancouver Jogger Really. I've run every day for the last 54 days. The only time I ever had traffic lights was when you lived round the corner!
BrightStrider May 2020 12:51pm, 7 May 2020 60 posts	0 BrightStrider That might have been our combined activity, though, rather than two Fetchies in the area. My current circle has six traffic lights, and my density is zero. There is an occasionally active Fetchie nearby. I think he is why my density sometimes goes to one, but at the moment it is zero.
Rosehip May 2020 1:09pm, 7 May 2020 15,923 posts	0 Rosehip I didn't ever get traffic lights until EdJ moved his homepoint back to within two miles and my density went back up - now I get lots but so does he I'm fairly sure you're not supposed to get traffic lights unless you have a neighbour
alpenrose May 2020 1:16pm, 7 May 2020 44,108 posts	0 alpenrose I didn't know there was a 10000 point badge. I'm edging up towards my all time high of 9444 which I got a couple of years ago and seem to be hovering around the 50th position now. Hopefully I can reach the heady heights of 10k if we're allowed out more next week.
BrightStrider May 2020 1:28pm, 7 May 2020 61 posts	0 BrightStrider But Rosehip, that doesn't distinguish between density and activity. What the guide says is 'A life-long money spinner if you can get one on a popular route.' Taking that at face value, it is to do with the popularity of a route, i.e. how much activity there is on it.
Vancouver Jogger May 2020 1:37pm, 7 May 2020 4,711 posts	0 Vancouver Jogger I thought that the 'popular route' bit was in order to make it a 'money spinner'. In the past I've had traffic lights that earned me nothing - basically any traffic lights that weren't on your commute Brightstrider! Maybe Fetch could tell us how you go about getting traffic lights.
PK May 2020 1:47pm, 7 May 2020 224 posts	0 PK Traffic lights appear at random the same as jewels. They last for 30 days before they disappear. If it's yellow, it is unowned and all you need to do it pass through it and it becomes yours. You need to visit it once every 7 days to keep it. You get four points each time you pass through, and you also get points each time someone else passes through. The value starts at 4 and goes up in fours to a max of 80. Each person (and each time) that passes it increases the value. (Green is yours, red is owned by someone else). If someone else owns a light, you'll incur a charge the same as the value of the light (a minus to your daily points total). Excellent for grabbing points if they are on popular routes (think popular race routes if you're lucky). Ones of of the way, though, not really much use as they won't increase in value or see enough fetchies (traffic).
BrightStrider May 2020 1:54pm, 7 May 2020 62 posts	0 BrightStrider Thanks, PK. Great summary. Looking at Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, I see a number of traffic lights among flowers, nearby.