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Time Periods
The game uses various time periods to schedule certain events:
Less than a day
System checks every 10 minutes for badge production execution.
Every 2 hours OSM database Nominatim is being polled to classify quadrant to regions. Note: This is now mainly reevaluating, since new quadrants are currently queued for evaluation just directly after they have been played.
Every 10 hours you can see a new random statistics in the app.
About a Day
At the beginning of the game a badge production lasts 24 hours between two Regular Badges.This timespan can be decreased by having Production Speed Badges in inventory.
Every 23 hours you can get a chance to vote for a badge.
Every 23 hours region and mapper ownership is being checked. They alternate, i.e. 11 hours after the rulers comes the mapper and 12 hours later the next ruler.
About a Week
A week in Badge®s last 161 hours and is mainly the timespan between two Weekly Badges are deployed.
Month
On the 17ths of every month diamonds are awarded for "beauty": For the highest rating badges, badge series and badge collections.
The number of diamonds a player can get, is between 0 and 3, i.e. one for his best badge, one for his collection, one for is production.
50 days
Time a weekly badge untouched by a player stays in place, before it “wanders”, i.e. jumps to a new location.
Season
System knows about common seasons, like christmas, easter and the like and adapts a bit to that. At least on the splash screen.