Suggestion for location picking - large maps
Hello,
First of all, allow me to quickly thank you for the work you've been doing over the years. I've been a player for more than 6 years and I keep coming back to the game.
I recently started making my own maps and I would like to suggest something regarding how the locations are being chosen when people play a game.
My map has around 860 manually placed locations all around the world at the moment. Recently, I noticed someone got a perfect score playing it, but here's the thing. The person got two locations only a few kilometers away from each other among the 5 rounds (the one in Murmansk: https://www.geoguessr.com/results/McKHa5Qu3w1vENoj). I thought it was a little bit disappointing that two points so close could be chosen for the same game. It's not a big deal, of course, but it made me thing about the possibility to prevent this from happening:
I thought it could be possible, if the map is wide and diverse enough, to prevent the game from choosing another location on the same map within, let's say 5-10km.
Again, it's just an idea and I'm grateful for everything else.
Thank you!
First of all, allow me to quickly thank you for the work you've been doing over the years. I've been a player for more than 6 years and I keep coming back to the game.
I recently started making my own maps and I would like to suggest something regarding how the locations are being chosen when people play a game.
My map has around 860 manually placed locations all around the world at the moment. Recently, I noticed someone got a perfect score playing it, but here's the thing. The person got two locations only a few kilometers away from each other among the 5 rounds (the one in Murmansk: https://www.geoguessr.com/results/McKHa5Qu3w1vENoj). I thought it was a little bit disappointing that two points so close could be chosen for the same game. It's not a big deal, of course, but it made me thing about the possibility to prevent this from happening:
I thought it could be possible, if the map is wide and diverse enough, to prevent the game from choosing another location on the same map within, let's say 5-10km.
Again, it's just an idea and I'm grateful for everything else.
Thank you!
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"let's say 5-10km"
I mean 5-10km away from where another location has already been selected.
That would be a setting that make sense, to be able to change the probability of similar locations or something similar. Instead of it being completely random as it is now.
Thanks for this. I have raised it with the gang!
Cheers
I'd say usually, random gives very good results. However, being able to choose not to play within a certain distance of other points played in the same game could be interesting for people who enjoy more diverse locations. Maybe a perk for Pro members?
Cheers