Most problems have a quick answer below. If yours isn't here, email me directly — it goes to a person, not a queue.
A loop only counts when you come back near where you started. Three things have to be true:
An out-and-back on the same road encloses nothing, so it claims road but no land.
Nothing is lost. Every claim is written to your phone before it's sent, and syncs when you're back online. A badge on the ride screen shows how many are waiting. If it never clears, tell me what it says.
One thing that is the phone rather than the app: without a network connection, GPS can take a minute or more to get its first fix. Give it a moment before starting a ride somewhere remote.
Someone rode through it. Territory is never shared — the last rider through a piece of ground owns it. You can take it straight back the same way, and you'll get a notification when it happens.
The leaderboard ranks land you currently hold, not distance ridden. Claiming roads alone won't move it — you need to close a loop. If you have captured land and still see zero, email me.
Profile → Delete account. It permanently removes your account, territory, roads and stats. This cannot be undone, and the ground you held becomes immediately available to other riders.
Email me with your rider name and roughly when the ride was, and I can look at what the server actually recorded.
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