Diverse Cacher - why does it keep going back and forth between diamond and emerald? [closed]

Question

I don't know if it's a bug or not but over the last several weeks my Diverse Cacher badge keeps jumping from Diamond to Emerald and back again.  Can anyone explain why this keeps happening?

A little history: Just a couple days ago it was showing as a Diamond and now it is back to Emerald.  I have found 11 types in a day on 3/11/2018 (to include a lab cache) but I do not have a paid membership here. I already understand that lab caches are not included until I pay for membership, then, I have to turn on the feature to have PGC count my lab caches in statistics.  Also, I am fully aware of the qualifications for both diamond and emerald and I have already read through all the badgegen wiki material.  Nothing explains this issue.

Comments

What I've seen is that some BadgeGen Addon changes due to new counting.

The Diverse Cacher AddOn is:

Bronze	3
Silver	4
Gold	6
Platinum	7
Ruby	8
Sapphire	9
Emerald	10
Diamond	11

https://project-gc.com/w/The_Diverse_Cacher So as you do not have a paid membership you have 10 different cachetypes. And this is now Emerald.

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I am fully aware of what qualifies for a diamond or emerald badge. I've already read through the link but addons do not apply since I didn't work on the Diverse Cacher badge during leap day. Not to mention, this leveling up and leveling down (can you say, 'see-saw') was going on before leap day. I achieved the 11 types (to include lab cache) on 3/11/2018 during a Mega event held in Denton, Texas.

Answer 1

So I checked your Profile Stats and BadgeGen a few minutes ago just to be sure:

You have "The Diverse Cacher" on Emerald for finding 10 unique cache types in a day. The first page of Profile Stats also states 10 types for most types a day on 11 March 2018. So this seems to be consistent.

Being a paying member of PGC you could include Labcaches where applicable (this also affects the most icons a day).

The moving up and down could have been something caused by re-leveling the badges and developing of the code, there was a lot going on in the last few weeks. Diverse was 10 for Diamond before the change, then 12, now it's 11.

Please notify us if it happens again.

Comments

Thank you for the help on this.  I took a snapshot of both the badge and the statistics. I will let you know if I see it jump back to diamond.

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It appears the issue is resolved. I have been monitoring it daily and also refreshed after the latest update and it has remained emerald as it should. Thanks again.

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Follow-up response: I chose to activate the trial membership feature and within a few hours it updated.  I was really amazed at how fast it updated things.  It didn't take a day to happen.

I have 11 distinct cache types found on a specific day, so, the diamond badge for Diverse Cacher is now active because it included my lab cache finds on that same day.  Very cool!

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@Clappy: you wanted me to let you know if it happened again.

I closed this thread thinking the problem had resolved but it has not.  When the system did an update on 3/31, the emerald badge reverted back to a diamond and yet my Finds under Profile Stats showed only 10 in a day.  Then the next day it went back to emerald.