Recently I was going through a number of Reddit and Garmin forum articles regarding badges and levelling in the Garming Connect and how ridiculous the experience gaps are between the top levels. Some of the authors even took the time to calculate, how long on average it would take you to max out those levels if you were to complete all the repeatable challenges available. I then took the time to go through all the repeatable challenges and noticed that there's a handful of them which are 'watch-specific' and much easier to complete as some of the regular repeatable challenges, i.e. all the monthly 8-point challanges. I decided to calculate what would be the maximum amount of extra points that can be gained from these watch-specific challenges per year. Here are the results:
First Avenger Watch - Up to 922 extra points per year.
Captain Marvel Watch - Up to 922 extra points per year.
Darth Vader Watch - Up to 730 extra points per year.
Rey Watch - Up to 96 extra points per year.
Another fact is that most of the repeatable challenges are limited to 250 repetitions, however none of the watch-specific badges have this limitation.
So how owerpowered these badges are?
If you were to own First Avenger Watch, you could reach level 10 in roughly 11 years completing only one, daily repeatable challenge. Same applies to the Captain Marve Watch.
Now when you compare this to the regular repeatable badges, e.g., 60-Day Goal Getter, it would take you 212 years. Yes, there are other badges that can be obtained repeatedly on daily basis such as Intense 300, Marathon, 50K Ultra, 100K Ultra, 100-Mile Ride, Indoor 4-Hour Ride, 50-Mile Ultra or Insanity but how do these challenges compare to a mere "On Your Left" or "Try to Keep Up" badges that consist in recording a 90-minute activity each day, e.g. walk?
My point is, wouldn't it be fair to any kind of regular daily repeatable challenge that would be at least on a similar difficulty level as the watch-specific ones? That's just my opinion and suggestion. Any feedback and discussion is welcome. :)
