First To Find Stats

WanderingAus · Post by **WanderingAus** » 21 October 08 8:41 am

My First To Find Stats on GCA don't include most of my FTFs.

I have 19 FTFs, GCA only lists the first 6, skips No 7, lists No 8, skips 9 through 18, and lists the one I logged today.

I checked a couple and I definitely had the first smiley on them.

Happy caching,
Keith (the Wandering part of WanderingAus)

From 2391 CroKs East of the Sunniest Place Down Under

rhinogeo · Post by **rhinogeo** » 21 October 08 8:52 am

You have to update them yourself by clicking on the First to Find button on the GCA page for that cache

WanderingAus · Post by **WanderingAus** » 21 October 08 9:15 am

Hmmm!! I don't recall doing that for the others, I didn't even know about GCA when I found London Bridge.

Thank you, I'll now go to their pages and log the FTFs.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 21 October 08 9:47 am

You can also automate this in the future by using GCA tokens in your logs.
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Logg ... log_tokens

WanderingAus · Post by **WanderingAus** » 21 October 08 10:12 am

Wow, learning new things every day

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So, as I understand it, if I include
" *Recommended*, *Overall Rating: 4*, *FTF* "
GCA will pick them up and record them.

Thanks rhinogeo and caughtatwork

Post by **caughtatwork** » 21 October 08 12:32 pm

WanderingAus wrote:Wow, learning new things every day .

So, as I understand it, if I include
" *Recommended*, *Overall Rating: 4*, *FTF* "
GCA will pick them up and record them.

Thanks rhinogeo and caughtatwork

The wiki was not quite right, so it's been corrected. The word Rating is actually Experience.

Apart from that, you are correct. For a new log into the system, if you use the following you will recommend the cache, claim it as first to find and give it an overall experience rating of 4 (top cache).

*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 4* *FTF* "

big dazza · Post by **big dazza** » 22 October 08 11:03 pm

I tried the *FTF* once and it didn't work, so I did it the long way. Did I just not give it time to work

Post by **CraigRat** » 23 October 08 5:44 am

big dazza wrote:I tried the *FTF* once and it didn't work, so I did it the long way. Did I just not give it time to work

If you are logged in AND your log has made it's way from gc.com then you should be able to claim FTF....
If you find a cache (for example today) and your log is not yet on our site then you won't be able to claim FTF for a day or so until the log gets into our database

Boagsratz · Post by **Boagsratz** » 24 October 08 1:04 pm

*wondering if C@W has any time for work or caching with all his brilliant input into this obsession of ours! *