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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 23, 2020 23:15:51 GMT
The most important skill for the Spotter seems to be estimating how far you go from the starting area and remembering the details along the way. Details like bends in the road, nearby water, intersections, side roads, etc. Being able to refer back to them in here or a Chatzy should make that easier. Based on the first challenge, you're slightly better than me at eyeballing measurements.
Do you want to do a couple of practice attempts tonight or tomorrow before doing the real thing? We could alternate roles and see what we're more successful with.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 24, 2020 1:38:13 GMT
There's also a "flag" option to take you back home in case we forget where we started, that'll probably be useful in the end. Though it's also worth mentioning that you can get a perfect score if you're within about 150 meters so we don't need to get it down exactly. Oh yeah, a couple of practice rounds would be nice. I'll be on here for the rest of the day in case you wanted to try it tonight.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 2:42:50 GMT
Probably not going to be able to do any tonight. I'll try to get some solo practice in tomorrow before you're available.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 21:34:16 GMT
Just realized that we're the only original pair left intact. Way to go, us!
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 21:39:18 GMT
By the way, my meetings for tomorrow got rescheduled, so I'm free all of tomorrow in case today doesn't work.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 24, 2020 21:42:29 GMT
I'm coming home from work rn, so we should be able to practice in about an hour after I get situated.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 22:11:41 GMT
Let me know if you have any loading issues with the site, once you get the chance. My computer seems to be fine otherwise, but I ran into long loads/lag/black screens a few times.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 22:19:55 GMT
Trying to think of screenshots we're going to want to have in advance. Screenshots of Cyrillic script sure seem like they'll be useful.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 24, 2020 23:41:08 GMT
The site is working fine on my end. I haven't heard of Cyrillic script until now, but yeah now that I think about it, it's going to be pretty difficult to gauge where we are if we can't even read the signs. Not sure what else we'd need immediately, but I suppose we'll find out when we start practicing.
I'm at my computer and ready to start practice whenever, and then after we're comfortable we can gauge when we want to start the real thing. I'll be here all day tomorrow too just in case.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 24, 2020 23:57:34 GMT
In the one practice attempt I did, Russia was the only place I got that didn't use Latin script. Based on this map, there are a couple other scripts we might run into. Blue means Google has done Street View there. I'll be able to start practice in a couple of minutes.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 25, 2020 0:02:59 GMT
Ooh, that map will probably be useful for narrowing down the places we can choose at least. I'll be ready to start when you are.
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 26, 2020 3:01:46 GMT
Guess we're finally going to the Eliminator.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 26, 2020 3:07:06 GMT
Yeah, there's not much we can do about it now...
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Post by Ted Cruz on Mar 26, 2020 18:43:58 GMT
Gonna submit votes. Feel free to flip them.
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Post by Stitch on Mar 26, 2020 20:18:10 GMT
I'm fine with those. That's what I was going to put down anyways.
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