Route of the week

General Discussion
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I’m not sure if this is new or I’m just noticing for the first time that we now have a Route of the Week and riders are awarded 500 XP for completion.
Combine that with the week streak and that’s 1000 XP per week, possibly from 1 ride plus the normal mileage XP.

Too bad it’s too late to interest me
I would have kept my subscription active last Summer to get extra XP and keep my streak active while getting 1000 XP but they decreased the rewards and I was able to keep the streak alive using the free 25 km per month.
So the new system is good in that respect but I’m going to easily be level 100 fairly soon and then What?

XP will cease to be a motivating factor, unless they expand more levels and we know how well that goes.Many riders have been accumulating new banked XP for 2 years now.
New subscribers have blasted through the levels because of all the silly double XP events and ride steaks and Portal banners etc. And the cheaters.

I have enjoyed my share of XP farming but that is coming to an end for me.
I guess my motivation is workouts and racing, the 2 things that Zwift has difficulty with.

By the way, ZCA says I’m detraining because I’m not on Garmin or Wahoo.
Doesn’t seem to be an accurate FITNESS app.

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More levels isn’t so much the problem most folks were complaining about. It was “banked XP” and changing the goalposts on what current levels meant - meaning some folks could be both at the same level with vastly different riding XP, or one day you were at ‘x’ level, and next day you were at another for some reason after a redefinition of levels. When you got your XP was more important than how you got it etc.

I like the idea of Route of the Week - didn’t notice that was a thing, I would tend to just use the same routes, so it’s a good carrot for me.

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Would you get the XP bonus from route of the week with any ride/race or not matter from where you select that route? Or do you get it only when starting route via that challenge window…
Any experiences that you have got the bonus without “selecting” the challenge first?

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like any fitness app, it needs data, primarily its going to use data from zwift any other platforms linked to zwift to get that data

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Has anyone without a Garmin GPS computer uploaded their outdoor rides to Garmin Connect, had those rides then appear in Companion app fitness tracker?

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Exactly my point.
I might use ZCA as my fitness tracker but, by design, I am unable to get my outdoor data into the program.

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Do you get that XP bonus every time you ride the Route Of The Week, or just for the first time in a week that you ride it?

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Speaking of XP bonus, “XP Express” is running again tomorrow every 3 hours from 0515 BST with the route being Outer Scotland for 8th May…

Every Tues/Thurs until end of 22nd May, different route per day, late join, 50mins group ride

Double XP per your distance metric (40 per Km).

0515BST link ZwiftPower - Login

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Most systems seem optimized for new users joining. This makes a lot of sense.

Every time you hit level 101, you get a drop bonus. This is as useful as anything else from 50-100.

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For me, the level itself was pretty interesting up to 100. I focused on getting there and was happy when I did. Now at that point, I’m definitely thinking “OK what now”. The bike upgrades and factory tour are what there is, and those are better than nothing. I’m certainly not going to do anything to make the bike upgrades happen faster so I’m upgrading bikes that are not super easy to upgrade. The periodic drops bonus helps with the upgrades but the bonus itself is not really a goal. I don’t like robo pacers and I don’t do anything to obtain drops faster, I just do what I like on any given day.

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Indeed .

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I’ve got 35mil drops so none of it incentivises me. I just focus on health and having fun racing.

I think it’s good that they are focused on solutions that help users onboard and progress

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Wait, every day you just do whatever you want? Must be nice! I have to do all sorts of things I don’t want every day :slight_smile:

I’ll probably try out route of the week this week. I presume you only get the 500 bonus XP the first time you do it.

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@Tom_Perttala Zwift Insider says you do have to click the Challenge card to “register” before you ride the route, but from there you can ride it however you choose. In my experience, I rode it with Genie and got the bonus XP. I wasn’t sure if this was going to work, since I didn’t start my free ride with Genie. I started it on a different route (Tick Tock) and teleported to Genie. But I got the banner saying that I’d completed the Route of the Week challenge.

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