Yesterday, Geocaching.com released another teaser of its “Geocaching Challenges”. This time around they highlight a challenge type that peaked my interest when the Geocaching Challenge announcement was made… the ‘Action’ challenge. The ‘Action’ challenge, will have a cacher go to a certain location and perform a specific action. The example shown in the video was “go to a spot and play chess”. This seems to brings back additional logging requirements which Groundspeak did away with a couple of years ago, but with the absence of a physical log to sign, what else can be asked. Either way geocachers will earn their smileys for completing a Challenge. The smileys for Challenges will appear separate from geocaches in user profiles, but will be part of the found/completed count. Which I would assume was done to try and please everyone… traditionalist and adaptors alike.
What I find interesting, is that it was specifically mentioned that Geocaching.com Premium Members will be able to create Action and Photo Challenges. Leaving me to wonder if Non-Premium Members will not be able too. I could easily see this being added to the list of premium features, giving value to the premium membership or to those who might want one.
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