Balloons!

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   BlueFrog
   Member

   I'd like the ability to perform a "mercy release" of a balloon. I just caught a balloon that was entirely written in Japanese, with replies entirely in Japanese. Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese, but I had to write a response in order to send it along. It'd be nice if we could have the option to release the balloon without any note, but still have it tagged that it was caught and released by me (for the original sender). I felt bad writing "Greetings from Canada" before sending it off.

   Maybe adding a language option would also work - "only catch balloons written in these languages" with the ability to check some boxes.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Andrew
   Shiny Development

   Thanks for your post. Currently if you just press the home button when you catch the balloon it releases it without recording the location. I can see where your coming from that it would be nice for the sender to see that it has landed in your neck of the woods but the alternative to your message would be just to have a blank tag with the location stated on it (not really ideal I hope you agree).

   We'll look into the languages but it may prove difficult to identify each one - especially European ones which use the same alphabet as English. The alternative is to try to put something which excludes certain countries of origin but that could defeat the object of the app to bring different people together - we'll do some more work on it!

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   BlueFrog
   Member

   Ah, okay, I didn't realize you could just press the home button to release it. I've gotten 4 Japanese balloons (make that 5, just got another one that's in English though) out of the 8 or 9 I've caught, so this has become a rather large problem for me (Canada must be on the Japanese express or something).

   Gord

   Posted 9 months ago #

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