Ingress

[LMNO]

You mean a game that is entirely based upon the physical location of the user's phone at any given moment could be made by someone OTHER than the company best known form mapping every roadway in the country?

I'm not sure what your complaint is, especially because I'm pretty sure you couldn't develop this game as universally WITHOUT google.

[Reginald Ret]

You mean a game that is entirely based upon the physical location of the user's phone at any given moment could be made by someone OTHER than the company best known form mapping every roadway in the country world?

I'm not sure what your complaint is, especially because I'm pretty sure you couldn't develop this game as universally WITHOUT google.

fixt.

[Eater of Clowns]

When we link portals we're connecting synapses, a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and one day we'll hit the exact right combination of wiring. That day will be Google's Awakening.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nice.

Looking at the Intel map, it occurs to me that the reason Resistence keeps winning is because they simply have more people playing.  I wonder if it's a narrative choice: It fits in with the "brave humans fight the alien menace" story, whereas I feel like I'm playing the "bringing progress to humanity" story, where the Resistence are more like Neoreactionary luddites preventing mankind from advancing.


Then again, I may be reading too much into all this, and people choose Blue because it's a primary color.

In my observation, people do tend to gravitate toward blue, especially older players and players with more money, and I think it's exactly what you say; the romance of the brave defenders of humanity. The narrative of the Enlightenment seems to be less intuitively appealing for a lot of people; I've convinced several people go to green when their initial impulse was to go blue. Hot Cowboy is blue, which is completely what I would have predicted based on his age and socioeconomic status.

[LMNO]

Good observation re: socioeconomics.  Incidentally, I got to Level 6, and it gets a lot easier to take out portals.  Make the game a lot more fun, in that you get a lot more involved in the competition.

[Junkenstein]

Nice.

Looking at the Intel map, it occurs to me that the reason Resistence keeps winning is because they simply have more people playing.  I wonder if it's a narrative choice: It fits in with the "brave humans fight the alien menace" story, whereas I feel like I'm playing the "bringing progress to humanity" story, where the Resistence are more like Neoreactionary luddites preventing mankind from advancing.


Then again, I may be reading too much into all this, and people choose Blue because it's a primary color.

In my observation, people do tend to gravitate toward blue, especially older players and players with more money, and I think it's exactly what you say; the romance of the brave defenders of humanity. The narrative of the Enlightenment seems to be less intuitively appealing for a lot of people; I've convinced several people go to green when their initial impulse was to go blue. Hot Cowboy is blue, which is completely what I would have predicted based on his age and socioeconomic status.

"Rugged individualism"? Humanity's last hope kind of tropes would seem to fit that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nice.

Looking at the Intel map, it occurs to me that the reason Resistence keeps winning is because they simply have more people playing.  I wonder if it's a narrative choice: It fits in with the "brave humans fight the alien menace" story, whereas I feel like I'm playing the "bringing progress to humanity" story, where the Resistence are more like Neoreactionary luddites preventing mankind from advancing.


Then again, I may be reading too much into all this, and people choose Blue because it's a primary color.

In my observation, people do tend to gravitate toward blue, especially older players and players with more money, and I think it's exactly what you say; the romance of the brave defenders of humanity. The narrative of the Enlightenment seems to be less intuitively appealing for a lot of people; I've convinced several people go to green when their initial impulse was to go blue. Hot Cowboy is blue, which is completely what I would have predicted based on his age and socioeconomic status.

"Rugged individualism"? Humanity's last hope kind of tropes would seem to fit that.

I don't know about that; they seem mostly to be pretty cooperative and good at working together to accomplish goals. I think it has more to do with conservatism and holding off change, because the more financially stable a person is the more threatening change becomes.

[LMNO]

So, another thing you probably know, but I just found out about: When you're attacking a portal, hold down the "Fire" button.  You'll hear a "whoop whoop" sound, and a white circle will shrink to a point centered around your position.  If you release the button when the circle is the smallest, your shot will get a hit bonus, up to 20%.  You can easily take out an L8 resonator with L6 bursters this way.

LMNO
-flippin' smurfs like it ain't no thang.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, another thing you probably know, but I just found out about: When you're attacking a portal, hold down the "Fire" button.  You'll hear a "whoop whoop" sound, and a white circle will shrink to a point centered around your position.  If you release the button when the circle is the smallest, your shot will get a hit bonus, up to 20%.  You can easily take out an L8 resonator with L6 bursters this way.

LMNO
-flippin' smurfs like it ain't no thang.

I did not know this, I'll try it!

My friend keeps talking about "glyphs" but I have no idea what she's talking about at all.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh here we go: https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/4574603?hl=en

Nice! I'll try this on my walk to the bus.

[LMNO]

Yeah, the glyphs take a little practice, but can be worth it if you're farming.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm slowed way down in my playing now that school has started,  but I hope to level up to 6... at some point this week. 

[Eater of Clowns]

10 minutes ago, fire up Ingress and notice my "pet portal" down the street was blue. Nah, fuck that, threw on some pants and a jacket and destroyed the offender's resonators. Walk back to my door.

By the time I get two houses down to my apartment, the portal is blue again, with full resonators.

<.<   >.>

Motherfuckers be watchin me.

[LMNO]

Dude, that's perfect. Start running up your AP.

[Eater of Clowns]

Dude, that's perfect. Start running up your AP.

THE MOTHERFUCKER FIGURED OUT WHICH RESONATOR I CAN HIT FROM MY COUCH. THAT ONE, ALONE, IS NOW LEVEL 8, WITH FULL SHIELDS AND A TURRET.