brewcrew4

Thanks for the feedback. Being new to the game, we have a better understanding of how things work. FTF won't get you into heaven, but it's a nice change of pace sometimes! We're not out to always be FTF, it was just something we set out for on this occasion. Sometimes we do puzzle caches, sometimes we do all the caches in one park. I think our feelings were just a little hurt, being misled into thinking it hadn't been found yet. I was looking for clarification on how logging a cache worked, FTF worked, beta testing a cache worked. It appears there is no "official" standpoint on this. I apologize, my original post didn't convey this clearly enough. Thank you narcissa, that was the advice I was looking for.

Thanks for your feedback. I feel a better sense of understanding on how this game is played. I'm going to remove the personal sense of competition from this hobby & enjoy every other aspect of it

I did some looking around on the Groundspeak support site & didn't find anything that helped. Is there anything that says the cache has to be published before it can be considered a "find" ? I ran across a CO who allowed someone to "beta test" their cache. I was at the cache today and the log already had signatures. After logging my find online (I was the first to do so online), the beta testers logged theirs also - but logged it before the publish date. Doesn't really seem fair, even if I end up listed as FTF for this cache. Shouldn't the beta testers have to visit the hide after it's publish and log their for it to count? I'm new to all this (49 finds!) and this was my third attempt at FTF. Looking through logs of other caches I've never really seen this before. I don't really know what to do, so I thought I would come here for advice. Thanks!

Check the magellan support site. They released a few firmware upgrades which fixed the tiny font in cache description so you can actually read it now!