Map of Challenge Checkers shows blue Symbols

Question

Hello,

I have upgradet to a Premium-Membership two weeks ago. I wanted to create a map of challenge checkers for my home region as well as a region further away, where I want to spend my holiday. Some Checkers show to green or red symbol, but a high amount also show a blue symbol. I thought this might go away over time, but two weeks later it is still all the same. Do I have to run every checker individually? I mainly bought the premium subscription for this feature and now I am a bit disappointed that it is not working.
drachenmaus1

Answer 1

If you have only been a paid member of Project-GC for a couple of weeks, then this is probably simply because the system hasn't had time to run enough checkers for you yet. There is a limited amount of time per day to run checkers for each person, so the system will start with those that are highest prioritized and then work its way down the list, as many per day as it has time for. Some checkers take longer to run than others, so it's difficult to say how many will be run each day. If you want to know more about exactly how checkers are chosen, you can read more in the Project-GC wiki: https://project-gc.com/w/Auto-challenge-checkers

Comments

+1 to pinkunicorn's response.  To add on, given that there are 10s of thousands of challenges around the world, you will still get blue marks in areas where you have not cached and for which you have not run many challenge checkers.  And that makes sense from a server efficiency perspective -- why invest server time checking whether you qualify for challenges located in areas where you may never go.  

But, if like me you travel a fair bit, and always look at challenges located in your destinations, then the server will start chipping away at the challenges in more areas.  

And, although the checkers are an extraordinarily valuable service, they are not 100% accurate sometimes, usually because of lack of clarity in the challenge description -- and mainly with older challenges that had less oversight in their creation.  So I always do a reality check to be make sure that the checker is saying something that seems right.  The errors are very very few and far between, but they can happen.