Do you think having the speed boost means we reach obstacles faster? There seem to be a lot more of them today.

Yeah, we are recovering pretty quickly, so that's good. I was just reminding people to be careful, and trying to explain it as fully as possible.

Vote to boost again after energy at 80-90%, got it! =)

6% lead. Way to go guys!

I think there are just more obstacles on this part of the trail. We're hitting them fairly consistently about 30 minutes after the previous obstacle (15 minutes after inactive obstacles like the monsoon).

It seems like once we hit 50%, the energy recovery sped up. Already at 73.5%

Great, another monsoon. I'll hunt a couple more times then I'm going to call it a night

Maybe... was trying to track it based on time, but I think maybe the percentage we're at has to do with it as well. Maybe it's a combination of factors.

Maybe they programmed it to be mostly recovered by the time we can vote again? That would be great!

: We definitely reach obstacles faster. It seems to have cut the obstacle time roughly in half.

I am still tracking times. I just stopped posting after each obstacle until I get a bit more data since I decided not to get people's hopes up with my rough predictions. xD

For those interested: Manchus: didn't track time, but it happened 6:40ish based on board posts Googli Army: didn't track time but got rough estimates from the board (encountered 7:06; passed 7:12) Log: encountered 7:43; passed 7:48 Vines: e. 8:17; p. 8:24 Monsoon: e. 8:53; p. 9:13 Landslide: e. 9:28; p. 9:35 SPEED BOOST ACTIVATED Googli Army: e. 9:58; p. 10:04 Lost Map Pieces: e. 10:18; p. 10:30 Monsoon: e. 10:39; ??? (My guess 10:59)

That would be my assumption based upon what we've heard and seen so far. But at this point I can't really complain because it means I'm getting my activity points faster than before.

Has it been confirmed that we can actually use the speed boost more than once? Also I wonder if maybe there's a rest or cool off period between speed boosts, like maybe we can only use a speed boost once every x amount of hours.

Seems that way. 4 minutes left, and we're less than 25% off from full energy. We need more than 90% to not have a 30 minute rest, so we're in pretty good shape so far. I think you can probably send out a group ping in like 25 minutes or so to start clicking the boost button.

Yes it has, and I believe we can also vote again right away once it's expired. We still need 1/3 of members to vote though, so it can take some time in between because of that.

Maybe I will, hopefully people will vote on their own too. I kind of feel bad for all the people who are away or sleeping right now, they're going to come back to a billion pings.

Thanks for the info. That does seem to make a bit more sense, given that it can take awhile for at least a 1/3 of the team to vote for a speed boost.

sag's team just used theirs. but they're not nearly as quick recovering their food as we were :)

We're at about 83 percent energy if people who will be going to bed soon want to start voting. If you're going to be online for a bit, hold off for ten, twenty minutes if you can. :)

I guess our bonuses are working then

I think I'm going to use the OTT group for pinging about speed boosts as well, once it reaches about 90%

Should we vote to use the boost again yet?

yeah, i think so for sure. either that or there's not many people active on their team right now.

Sounds good ^^

[edit] Their boost is definitely active. Our lead has been cut tot 5.5% from just under 6% already. Here's hoping they get a monsoon that negates their damn boost too (it feels like the staff are working against us sometimes lol)

Does it drop to 10% of your current energy level (aka if you're at 80%, the speed boost will drop you to 8%) or just to the 10% marker?

If it's the latter, we shouldn't delay at all on the speed boost?

Maybe a bit of both :P

I think it's best to wait for it to increase a bit anyway, because I don't want to take a chance and end up at 0. It recovers quickly enough anyway.

how do you know that te other team has activated a speed boost?????

and 4 that matter, how do some people get the number for the energy and out lead and stuff like that.