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Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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> You lost the challenge with 11370 points against 11397. Damn, I thought I'd beat you, but your last one was really close and made for all points I were ahead of you.

that was pure luck. guessing the continent is fairly easy. guessing the country is a little bit tricky. But guessing a point in a 100 km diameter is pure luck :)

Yeah, the scoring should be made flatter between 50km and 500km and steeper above. Now there's bigger point difference between lucky shot in the right country and unlucky one than between unlucky shot in roughly right place and choosing wrong continent.

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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Challange me: http://www.geoguessr.com?s=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6ODg0NSwidmVyc... You can rotate and zoom, but no googling and moving the car.

Not moving is a silly rule, but still: http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6OTY2MywidmVyc...

Why not moving is a silly rule? I think that moving doesn't make sense in challenge mode. On exploration mode it would be fine, I think.

Re: GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

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post #54

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Not moving is a silly rule, but still: http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6OTY2MywidmVyc...

Why not moving is a silly rule? I think that moving doesn't make sense in challenge mode. On exploration mode it would be fine, I think.

Sometimes you have too little information and it's pure guess then and moving just few steps can bring you some more. On the other hand one can take hundreds of steps before giving answer and challenge might depend on time spent so maybe it's not that silly.

It would be best if each step costed you some amount of points.

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