What are the icons around the edge of the new pgc badges?

Question

I like the new pgc badge categories which are interesting and a good step forwards.

In my badges I have some icons shown around the edge of certain badges, for example on my Earthcache badge I have two icons, a FTF and 29 Feb.

Where can I find a list of all the possible icons for each badge and their meaning please?

Comments

I like them.

So far I see addons for:  looping the badge, finding an FTF for the badge, finding on Leap Day, hosting a CITO, Geo-Tour, 81 D/T matrix and finding an old virtual.

I'm sure there are more but don't see them listed in the badge information

Answer 1

You can achieve this small icons for another cache types or sizes too. You just have to find one cache on 29th February, achieve FTF on it, do a matrix, complete a calendar. These four small icons are available for The Traditional Cacher, The Multi Cacher, The Mysterious Cacher, The Letterboxer, The Wherigo Cacher, The Earth Cacher, The Virtual Cacher, The Odd-sized Cacher, The Micro Cacher, The Small Cacher, The Regular Cacher, The Large Cacher. FTF and 29 FEB are located on the left side, matrix and calendar on the bottom. There another small icons for The Attribute Cacher (for Partnership and Geotour attributes), The Virtual Cacher (Old-virtual), The Rugged Cacher and The Adventurous Cacher (Climbing).

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Thanks, are there only four icons available for the first set?

On the second set, why are Partnership and Geotour identified?

How do you get an “old virtual” icon?

What other icons are there?  For example, I have Lost & Found.

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2) Attributes GeoTour and Partnership are very rare. I think because of it the authors decided to do it this way. It will be so hard to make loops including these. In our country (Czechia) is only one geocache with Partnership attribute and no official GeoTour with attributes. There is a Prague Airport GeoTour (GC56KKB), but without mentioned attribute.
3) I don't have this one, but I think the condition is to find a virtual cache from year 2001.
4) The good way is to find statistics of some geocacher with very high number of founds and just check out what icons they have. There is no official list of it.

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There are numerous AddOn-Icons available, most of them are already mentioned. Not all are available to all badges, not all have been implemented yet.

We're not yet sure if we will provide a complete list or make it more of a "secret surprise". Right now, there is no official list, it's all still in BETA.

3) The old Virtual AddOn can be gained by finding a Virtual Cache placed before they were grandfathered (that is placed before 2005). Any Virtual Reward find does count, the old Virtuals do.

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I've found several of the grandfathered virtuals and I do not have an Old Virtual addon. I suspect that you need to fulfill the diamond requirements for the badge with just old virtuals in order to get that.

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Yes, that's right. The "old ghost" AddOn is awarded on finding the Diamond amount of only "old Virtuals".

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Thank you for make this clear. I found virtual caches from year 2002 and I have Emerald level badge. So I guessed I have to find even older cache. Now I know I have to level virtual caches to Diamond to achieve it.

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Thanks for letting us know the qualification for the virtual AddOn.

You said earlier that you weren’t sure if you would provide a complete lost or make it a “secret surprise”. I would respectfully suggest that this is a good example where folks are keen to know how to qualify for this AddOn and would like to know how to work towards it.

Personally I have 167 “old” virtual finds so this one is definitely of interest to me.

I like the new system so thanks for working it and especially thanks for taking a positive approach to many negative comments in the other thread