Boost Freeze, Please!
Jess BikeAngelsTeam Another enhancement idea for discussion. WE LOVE BOOSTS! The 2x and 3x boosts have been a game changer for many of us. However, Bike Angels sometimes need to use the sys...
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I love this idea. I work in midtown which is a pick-up/neutral point desert. Biking home from work means either walking 30 min to the nearest station without drop-off points, or giving up my boost. Having the ability to freeze my boost would be a huge time-saver and incentivize me to keep up with the program. Here are a couple other ideas:
- A karma system where, after taking a negative ride, you have to take two positive rides in quick succession to reset your boost clock.
- Instead of losing your boost outright after a negative ride, you get time taken off your boost clock (say 3 hours). You could maybe even change the boost clock system so each positive ride accumulates X hours of boost time (and cap it if you want). Then, riders who take multiple positive rides in a row can rack up boost time and not be reset back to zero for one negative ride.
Also, a pop up warning that you're about to lose your boost when undocking would be appreciated too. I just walked to a station that had neutral points. At some point in the few minutes between checking the station and undocking the bike, it changed to drop off points. So I lost my boost and now have to start all over to build it back up. It's on me I guess for not double checking when I went to undock but I definitely wouldn't have undocked there if I had known it had changed. Some kind of pop up warning/confirmation when scanning the bike would help us not get penalized when a dock changes suddenly.
