- Paul Prince
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Pro Users Please Read.
ICELAND
As some of you will know, and most probably won't, Iceland is now dead (with the exception of Gullbringusysla) and has been for several months. This is basically due to the regions being merged, and the implementation of new codes.
Having spoken with Jeremy regarding this issue, we now have two options.
Do we change Iceland completely? This will reduce the number of regions from 20 to 8...
All of the new 8 regions should be possible to obtain.
Or
Do we leave Iceland as it is? This will mean you will not be able to collect any new regions, and you will effectively have what you have and that's it.
Points to consider are:
If the new regions are used you will lose the flags you have already collected, but you will however have the chance to collect 8/8 and complete the country.
If we stick with the 20 regions we already have, as i have already mentioned you will be stuck with what you have and will be unable to complete the country.
I am aware that a lot of the long time collectors may have 15/16 flags so it will be these people who stand to lose the most. And it also needs to be mentioned that new users, or those considering upgrading will only be able to collect 1 flag out of the 20 unless we change.
So what does everyone think? Do we change, or do we stick with what we have?
All comments welcomed !!!!
I personally think we should change to the new 8 region Iceland (even though i stand to lose 8 flags!)
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- holland25
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Re: Pro Users Please Read.
Change the 20 to 8, but keep our old hits. They can be moved to new FIPS.
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- jimctu
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Re: Pro Users Please Read.
It was too hard to get the Iceland regions. I don't wanna lose them.
Is there a way to creat something like a subgroup, like old FIPS and new FIPS and we can have both? :D
Or just the same thing that happened to some Russian regions. we have them both, like Kamchatka and Chita
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- Paul Prince
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@Jimctu.......They new regions are already being tracked, and so i'm told if they were in use now some users willl have 8/8 already !!! So i would say they won't be anywhere as near as hard as the old regions.
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- Jd_Jd_Jd
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Re: Pro Users Please Read.
I had already noticed that I got exclusively the 'unknown' region from Iceland during the last months.
I wouldn't mind seeing the number of Icelandic regions reduced to 8, since I have colleted only 1 region so far (Gullbringusysla) . It shouldn't be that hard for me to collect that one again.
This is just for my situation, so I think the final decision lies with the big collectors.
- Paul Prince
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Just as an addition to this thread, these are the new regions in question...
English names:
Capital Region
Eastern Region
Northeastern Region
Northwestern Region
Southern Peninsula
Southern Region
Western Region
Westfjords
Icelandic names;
Austurland
Höfuðborgarsvæði
Norðurland Eystra
Norðurland Vestra
Suðurland
Suðurnes
Vestfirðir
Vesturland
Last edited by Paul Prince (November 5, 2013 2:29 pm)
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- holland25
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Re: Pro Users Please Read.
Just for the record, this is how new regions include the old ones:
Austurland
Austur-Skaftafellssysla
Nordur-Mulasysla
Sudur-Mulasysla
Hofudborgarsvaedi
Rejkyjavik
Nordurland Eystra
Nordur-Tingeyjarsysla
Sudur-Tingeyjarsysla
Eyjafjardarsysla
Nordurland Vestra
Austur-Hunavatnssysla
Skagafjardarsysla
Vestur-Hunavatnssysla
Sudurland
Arnesysla
Ragnarvalasysla
Vestur-Skaftaffels
Sudurnes
Gullbringusysla
Vestifirdir
Bardastrandarsysla
Nordur-Isafjardarsysla
Strandasysla
Vestur-Isafjardar
Vesturland
Borgarfjardarsysla
Dalasysla
Myrasysla
Snafellsnes
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- fancy_fran
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I would rather have the new ones if I can get them all than being stuck
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- rob12345
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Re: Pro Users Please Read.
holland25 wrote:
Change the 20 to 8, but keep our old hits. They can be moved to new FIPS.
+1 for this suggestion
- Paul Prince
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anyone else?
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