Angelfirenze/foursquare-points — pull request #1 by Angelfirenze (2013-12-31 23:44:13+00:00)
Title: Goals...

Having found overall that Foursquare awards points only to small limit at home and a glorious glut of check-ins when tracking elsewhere, I would like to posit the ridiculous idea of being penalized for check-ins closer to home as opposed to being able to get over three hundred the further away one is to the point of actually maxing them out for more than a day before any rebound is available for further check-ins.

I would dearly like to make this ratio more even if nothing else. It seems wrong or at least off-balance.

The program Foursquare is coded in Scala with reference to Global Positioning and image tags with cross-posting enabled for Twitter and Facebook. That said, given that Foursquare also takes into account logins both on the public site and the Android/iPhone application, it is important to keep locationin mind at all times since flights score several badges and many points. Different locations are worth points all on their own, which is both frustrating and encencouraging as far as goals for players because of incentive to stay active.

The problem lies in the limit imposed on check-ins when closer to home versus out or abroad, but leads to annoyance in regard to blocking attempts after a few minutes. Therin lies the problem. Manipulating the point spread with add-ons and check-in-a-friend only works well when check-ins are hours apart. Listing check-ins at the end of a busy night is programmable only through more than one phone synching check-ins during events so Foursquare doesn't block you out.

Goal: possible revision of Foursquare to eliminate blocking of at-home check-ins after negative thirty seconds to one minute.