% manual streets of a fellow strider

[ericjrw (Eric Wes)]

I have often wondered the same thing.

But then I realized there are other ways to game the system.

And ideas have been proposed:

% Complete based on Manual completion vs Actual Completion

I prefer that there be some way to see rankings for % complete for a town that is only based on streets manually completed. There are some “streets” in the town of Maynard, MA that are nearly impossible to do but I refuse to mark them manually complete. I noticed that for some of them, users simply marked them manually complete which pushes them up in the rankings. I have a lot more respect for folks who have fought through getting streets the hard way.

Honest complete % competition

I would love to see two %scores, one including manually completed streets, which may take you to 100% in your city and is totally up to you to decide what you find reasonable to set manual complete and one excluding manually completed streets that you can use to honestly compare with other striders in your city. In my city there is a strider who runs much further than me but also who puts many streets to manual completion which is his good right. However, me being a bit competitive I would like…

Maximum number of manually complete street

This will sound terribly petty, I realize. I did like the idea of being the first person to complete my city, but not long after I started, someone suddenly went very rapidly to 100%. When I look at that person’s life map, huge areas of the city are missing, and I do mean several whole large suburbs. I know there are good reasons that you might want to mark a street manually, but there is usually a better way to solve it. I would like to assume good faith (perhaps historical information stored …

Suggestion: Interpolated nodes to address premature street completion

I looked around for information on how exactly the street nodes are generated, but did not see any posts on the topic. I’m not sure how feasible this is therefore, but here is the problem nonetheless: Many streets around me are comprised of nodes at the start and end and intersections, and nowhere else. [image] This means it’s possible to run all the east-west streets and end up completing all the north-south streets without even running on them except through the intersections. I found that…

This is not the exact post I was thinking of, as I’m still looking, but it is an example of the topic I was looking for: All Streets or All Nodes? in particular this post All Streets or All Nodes? - #30 by rus.golden

That last link is the example I was thinking of, on gaming the CS system.