Alien Mission
played
Our second whereigo of the day! We have been thinking of doing a wherigo in our area for an upcoming event. We aren't ready to upgrade our old garmin gps. We were excited to find an app for this kind of cache hunting for our Droids. We came to Cedar Rapids today to see if it works. Yes it does! We enjoyed the challenge and story line of this cache. We got stuck on one particular point and skipped it. Fortunately, we ran into a couple of fellow geocachers on the trail, Weasel and Supergoober, who gave us a hint on the geography of that stage (Thanks guys!). Then we were able to finish the mission and log the final. This was very well done! Now we have some ideas for placing one further west.
Everything worked fairly well on the Droid with two exceptions. 1) The navigation arrow often didn't point in the correct direction; we had to rely on the increasing and decreasing distance to help us hone in on the stage locations. 2) We were unable to unlock the cartridge after completion even though we had a valid saved game. It appears that the saved Droid WhereYouGo "OWS" file is not compatible with Wherigo, which requires a "GWS" file. Changing the file extension doesn't solve the problem.
Even with these difficulties we had a great time playing this cartridge and are quite pleased to give it a 5-star rating. Nice work, Borky00! TFTW.