How is it possible to get 92K points in a week?
I also wondered that. Someone’s been very busy this week…
Probably a mass backdated purge.
Though I am getting suspicious of some of the scores flying around. Hard to track given all the points problems but I am starting to wonder if some of the mass-editing tools that are popping up are giving rise to a little bit of gaming of the system!
Maybe he’s not driven for ages and has picked up a massive backlog of edit candies?
From just candies:
75K points = 100 candies = 50K edits
From editing + candies:
75K points = 50 candies + 25K edits
That’s a lot of work without actually running Waze.
Perhaps the delayed candy points were extra delayed for them?
As a comparator, I’ve been on Waze 6-9 hours every day, with quite a bit of road renaming and I’'ve only got half the points. I find it hard to believe that is all editing.
Theoretically, he/she could have been off sick for a month passing the time with map editing and has how started driving again and got a bumper crop of candies.
I think we’ll see gaming of the system more and more (if we’re not already) but it may or may not be the case here.
So difficult to police … :-/
Most of the edits he did in my area I’ve had to go in and do again. Roundabouts and ramps were changed to 2 way streets, road types had altered and street names had been removed. A lot of streets that I hadn’t got round to naming were set as 2 way (some of these are one-way), no street names were added or turn restrictions set. Red arrows everywhere. 
I’m not sure if you are alluding to the wiki that states that you get 3 points for road naming - I’m pretty sure you get the usual 1.5 per edit + bonus candies for road naming, not 3.
Sounds like malicious use of the “select entire street” button in WME.
No, just that it is fairly quick to rack up a lot of edits when naming stretches of road. For the record, I’ve been adding road numbers to loads of roads in North London.
Or at least careless or uninformed.
or the Extended Tool … I’ve made 110K pts last week, but I was working on WME about 8hours a day, and munched at least 25K candy’s points.
Im getting quite fed up myself with the situation.
There seems to be some users who just go in adhoc changing things left right and centre almost seemingly for the sake of it. I’ve seen the problems mentioned previously.
Roads changed to two way without being given a name, one way roads changed to two way, roads changing classification with very little knowledge of an area. I’ve seen roads used by heavy goods vehicles changed from Primary to Street while the next street not used by HGV’s is left at Primary. I see people changing a few roads in a small area to the appropriate area and no ones taking any time to actually do it properly.
Im putting in a load of edits, making sure to get the road naming right, road layout, doing appropriate merging, splitting, realigninment, putting in roundabouts, road naming… Im on phase 2 now where Im aligning and setting the City to match the Suburb.
During my short time, I’ve added the missing round about to the A452 between Balsall Common and Coleshill, added the new road section on the A4040 at the Swan in Yardley Birmingham, and updated the A38 in Birmingham with the new dual carriageway segment.
Yet I still can’t get anywhere near some users in the weekly lists.
Now I realise some people really have no lives and are just on this thing 24/7, but there are some who just seem to sit there and constantly make changes with no real benefit to the system, it does make me wonder if people are playing the system - which is a little unfair because I think I deserve a Gold status by now 
:mrgreen:
Let me just clarify by the way: the frustration is that some users just appear to be doing what is easy to rack up the points rather than actually taking the time to fix things and do the hard work like create the missing roundabouts, realign the roads, properly research the area, using google streetview to check junctions etc.
I’ve spent the last few weeks doing consistency checks across London and I’m glad to say I’ve not seen any evidence of playing the game. Plenty of mistakes but all small scale and typical of people not reading the wiki. Maybe we’re just lucky down here.
8h per day + munching at least 6 candies (750 pts) per day.
Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9100 avec Tapatalk
WeeeZer14 was telling me that he doesn’t drive much with Waze running due to his job, and often won’t run the Waze app for a week or longer.
When we were in Palo Alto we took a ride into San Francisco and he was picking up editing candy every quarter mile. He must’ve gotten 10 of them in one stretch of road. It would be easy to accumulate 50 of them over the course of a week of editing and the drive the next week and get those extra points along with the current week’s edits and get 100,000 points.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have an idea as to how this could be happening due to bugs within Waze allowing points to be gained very quickly without actually doing anything :shock:
I am NOT going to post here how this can be done for obviouse reasons but it can be done :shock:
I have also not abused the system myself and have just been testing and checking to see if their were any ways to get quick points :ugeek:
How can one report such bugs so hopefully they can be fixed :?:
Regards,
Slimfar :?
Me?
David, using Tapatalk
Silly me, wrong week
David, using Tapatalk