(http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ingress-screenshots.jpg)
Anybody here playing Ingress (http://www.ingress.com/)?
If so, what's your experience been like?
For those of you that haven't heard of it --
Ingress is a game for mobile devices running android. It's a video game that you play by walking around in the real world. It's an ARG, definitely the biggest one ever launched. Here's how it works:
(http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/streams/2012/November/121115/1C4779852-ingress-goog.blocks_desktop_medium.jpg)
There's a blue team and a green team. (I'm on the green team)
Many public locations (mostly public art, parks, and public buildings like libraries and post offices) are "portals". A portal can be controlled by either team.
You can "hack" a portal if you're within a certain distance of it. That's like opening a treasure chest, when you do it, you get a few pieces of random gear.
Each portal has resonators surrounding it, these are like the portal's health bar. You deploy them to defend a portal, or you attack them to capture a portal.
Portals can be outfitted with upgrades that defend the resonators from damage or attack opponents when they get too close.
If your team controls several portals, you can link them together to create a "field", and capture territory for your team. There is a global score that is constantly shifting based on how much territory each team controls.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Ingress_Intel_Map_full-screen.png)
I find this is a video game that gets me out of the house a lot. I'll notice that a portal near my house has been damaged, so I walk up the street and repair it. Or another player needs gear, so I go somewhere private and drop a bunch of equipment. He then has to get within 10 meters of the dropoff location, spot the gear in his ingress scanner, and pick it up.
It's made me explore my neighborhood quite a bit. Made me notice little trails and statues which I normally just drive past. And I've now met seven or eight people who live nearby and I would never have otherwise bumped into.
The game is still in beta, and it's being updated constantly. There is an ongoing story, which is dispensed in the form of media items... once a week, when you hack a portal, you'll find an "Ingress Report" which is a little 5-minute video about current events in the game. Sometimes they stage plot events in big cities where you could actually meet some of the game NPCs and influence the story. They also have a website where plot info is kept, and it's full of bizarre puzzles. If you solve a puzzle, it gives you a code you can plug into your scanner for free gear. (although you have to be one of the first people to solve that particular puzzle, so I haven't succeeded at that yet)
It's a very interesting game. It's kind of like geocaching but with teams. Not perfect yet, by a long shot... but I enjoy that we are finally playing games that combine GPS and RPG elements. It's so bizarre to me that I'm playing a video game which involves getting exercise. Every so often, I bump into my neighborhood nemesis, the guy who foils all my plans and controls most of the nearby territory. It's weird, because our relationship exists on this game layer which is invisible to everybody else.
Just the other week, I was standing outside of this bar (girlfriend was smoking a cigarette), and trying to capture the nearby enemy portal. Suddenly, my nemesis came running down the street, phone in hand, to recharge the resonators and block my attack. He looked up and saw me standing there, and we shook our fists at each other. My friends were like, "What's going on?" They didn't even know that the two of us were engaged in this hyper-nerdy form of gang warfare.
Wow.
Cram, they're gonna put you guys in a cage. This looks cool as fuck, but I can already see the backlash.
That is totally cool, too bad there isn't an iOS version.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 04:55:29 PM
Wow.
Cram, they're gonna put you guys in a cage. This looks cool as fuck, but I can already see the backlash.
what do you think the backlash will be?
People smashing each others phones, or people calling in to work because of turf wars.
One of RWHN's children gets inconvenienced so a bill is proposed to ban anything emulating gang warfare.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2013, 06:07:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 04:55:29 PM
Wow.
Cram, they're gonna put you guys in a cage. This looks cool as fuck, but I can already see the backlash.
what do you think the backlash will be?
A few things.
1. As this develops, it will pick up a more FPS style. Maybe not this developer, but someone will. There will then be a media frenzy and attempts to link it to school shootings, etc.
2. If this becomes popular, the No Fun crowd will ban it on the same premise they ban skateboarding. Or they'll try to.
3. Some kid will trip over his own feet and hurt himself, and then the fur really flies.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a GREAT idea, and looks like a lot of fun. I may try it myself if it ever finds its way out to the horrible backwater in which I live. But there will be a movement to stomp it, on account of it DOES look like fun.
Shit, when I was a kid, there was a huge movement to ban Dungeons and Dragons, because obviously kids would lose their sense of reality and hack each other to pieces. Numerous bad movies were made using exactly this premise. Also, it was viewed as "devil worship", when what it really was, was people sitting down and being social.
A. This looks insanely fun and makes me want to trade my iPhone in for an Android so I can play it. I have an Android tablet but I don't carry it everywhere like I do my phone.
B. It's only a matter of time before some law enforcement authority declares this a "gang simulation" and there's a media frenzy over how it glorifies gangs and is teaching kids to have gang wars.
I was initially worried about stalking and such - luckily, you can't see other players on the scanner. You get a notification if somebody is attacking one of your portals, and that might lead to meeting them in 3D. But if you're worried about that, it's easy to avoid those portals where you might bump into a creeper.
When I met the guy I refer to as my nemesis, I was sitting at home watching the daily show. There's a portal right across the street from my house, so I can actually access it from my bed and living room. I treat it as MY portal and I won't let anybody take it for more than a few hours. :p
I heard my phone chirp to let me know it was being attacked, so I opened up ingress and recharged the resonators. A few minutes later, I got another attack notification and immediately foiled it. A few minutes later, I got an attack notification, ignored it, then destroyed the portals as the guy was dropping them. I got a message over the com:
"I've got nothing but time, Cramulus."
that's when it occurred to me that this guy is probably sitting in a car outside my house. He doesn't know where I live, but he can conclude that I am within 40 meters of where he's parked. I looked out the window, and sure enough, there was a car parked downstairs with a scruffy looking 20-something sitting in it on his phone. Squinting, I could see he had the Ingress app open.
I shrugged and continued the battle. After all, this was taking 0 effort on my part, and to counter me, this guy is literally wasting his night sitting in a car.
But it was kind of creepy, no?
So finally I messaged him, "Wanna get a beer?" He said Hell Yeah, got out of his car, and I met him on the sidewalk. After a few minutes of small talk, I didn't get the psycho vibe, so we got a beer. Cool guy! and lives about three blocks from me. Now I see him around town and we shake our fists at each other whenever we pass. So everything turned out okay. But I can imagine situations where it might not have been as cool.
There was a moment last month where I was about to go to bed, but I checked the scanner, and there was a nearby portal which my nemesis had spent a lot of resources on. I stood to get so many points from capturing that portal it that I'd level up. So I got out of bed and jogged down to the train station.
I got this little twinge when I got closer, because I realized I was about to foil probably 2 hours worth of work on his part. And he'll know I'm here. And I can tell from the game feed that he's driving around right now. What if he FLIPS OUT and comes down to the train station to find me? Then I realized he's a skinny 20 something and I know where he lives, so I'm not that worried. But again, I can imagine personality clashes could become quite dramatic in this thing.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2013, 06:24:29 PM
I was initially worried about stalking and such - luckily, you can't see other players on the scanner. You get a notification if somebody is attacking one of your portals, and that might lead to meeting them in 3D. But if you're worried about that, it's easy to avoid those portals where you might bump into a creeper.
When I met the guy I refer to as my nemesis, I was sitting at home watching the daily show. There's a portal right across the street from my house, so I can actually access it from my bed and living room. I treat it as MY portal and I won't let anybody take it for more than a few hours. :p
I heard my phone chirp to let me know it was being attacked, so I opened up ingress and recharged the resonators. A few minutes later, I got another attack notification and immediately foiled it. A few minutes later, I got an attack notification, ignored it, then destroyed the portals as the guy was dropping them. I got a message over the com:
"I've got nothing but time, Cramulus."
that's when it occurred to me that this guy is probably sitting in a car outside my house. He doesn't know where I live, but he can conclude that I am within 40 meters of where he's parked. I looked out the window, and sure enough, there was a car parked downstairs with a scruffy looking 20-something sitting in it on his phone. Squinting, I could see he had the Ingress app open.
I shrugged and continued the battle. After all, this was taking 0 effort on my part, and to counter me, this guy is literally wasting his night sitting in a car.
But it was kind of creepy, no?
So finally I messaged him, "Wanna get a beer?" He said Hell Yeah, got out of his car, and I met him on the sidewalk. After a few minutes of small talk, I didn't get the psycho vibe, so we got a beer. Cool guy! and lives about three blocks from me. Now I see him around town and we shake our fists at each other whenever we pass. So everything turned out okay. But I can imagine situations where it might not have been as cool.
There was a moment last month where I was about to go to bed, but I checked the scanner, and there was a nearby portal which my nemesis had spent a lot of resources on. I stood to get so many points from capturing that portal it that I'd level up. So I got out of bed and jogged down to the train station.
I got this little twinge when I got closer, because I realized I was about to foil probably 2 hours worth of work on his part. And he'll know I'm here. And I can tell from the game feed that he's driving around right now. What if he FLIPS OUT and comes down to the train station to find me? Then I realized he's a skinny 20 something and I know where he lives, so I'm not that worried. But again, I can imagine personality clashes could become quite dramatic in this thing.
Relevant:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,34990.0.html
I can't say enough good things about any of this. I think it's fantastic.
If this gets really popular, I can clearly see an IRL fight, and possibly even manslaughter, as monkeys fight over imaginary territory.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 18, 2013, 06:32:34 PM
If this gets really popular, I can clearly see an IRL fight, and possibly even manslaughter, as monkeys fight over imaginary territory.
Well, you can't go to a bar without some drunken asshole throwing a punch. There's assholes everywhere, it's no reason to stop having fun.
What I can also see is this being used for police/intel geek training.
The saving grace has been that the community - at least so far - has been extremely welcoming and friendly. I've met more people from the opposing team than I've met members of my team. And they were all super nice, warm, excited that the game is growing, glad to associate a face and personality with the username they've been battling against.
I've even seen enemies in-game send friendly little heads ups when they see opponents are traveling into dangerous neighborhoods. "Just be careful going there at night, don't be the guy walking around staring at his phone oblivious to the world." ---- I'm guilty of that. I have smacked into two trees while playing this damn game. :lol:
The only ugliness I've seen is from one player, who seems kind of paranoid, and thinks other players are stalking him. To my knowledge, people kind of avoid him because of that, but it's hard to say what's really going on.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2013, 06:44:52 PM
The saving grace has been that the community - at least so far - has been extremely welcoming and friendly. I've met more people from the opposing team than I've met members of my team. And they were all super nice, warm, excited that the game is growing, glad to associate a face and personality with the username they've been battling against.
I've even seen enemies in-game send friendly little heads ups when they see opponents are traveling into dangerous neighborhoods. "Just be careful going there at night, don't be the guy walking around staring at his phone oblivious to the world." ---- I'm guilty of that. I have smacked into two trees while playing this damn game. :lol:
The only ugliness I've seen is from one player, who seems kind of paranoid, and thinks other players are stalking him. To my knowledge, people kind of avoid him because of that, but it's hard to say what's really going on.
I think you're going to find that most people who want to go out and play that game are people who are going to be gregarious by nature.
This is the coolest thing I've seen all month, and I don't even like video games.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 06:42:28 PM
Well, you can't go to a bar without some drunken asshole throwing a punch. There's assholes everywhere, it's no reason to stop having fun.
THIS!
This is a really cool idea!
New World Order is brainwashing our kids into urban terrorists to fight in Obama's secret Muslim army!
This IS a really cool idea...
...Afraid a psycho or two will get stabby over it at some point, because people tend to take shit too seriously.
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on July 18, 2013, 07:19:18 PM
This IS a really cool idea...
...Afraid a psycho or two will get stabby over it at some point, because people tend to take shit too seriously.
Again, psychos are gonna be psycho, no matter what you do.
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
And, as people go out and be more social, there will be LESS, not MORE psychos.
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2013, 06:44:52 PM
The only ugliness I've seen is from one player, who seems kind of paranoid, and thinks other players are stalking him.
The outdoor version of ZOMG HAXXOR!!!11
Thanks to Cramulus's ill-advice, we all went out and played these games.
Until going to the supermarket looked like THIS:
(http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/Image/mad_max.jpg)
There you go filling me up with false hope again :argh!:
:lulz: that's a best case scenario. I think the reality will be somewhere in between TRON and ZARDOZ
Don't tempt me, I totally have the body to rock that red trunks and kinky boots look. And the accent to match 8)
Quote from: Cramulus on July 18, 2013, 08:08:04 PM
:lulz: that's a best case scenario. I think the reality will be somewhere in between TRON and ZARDOZ
I have to go change now.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 08:09:39 PM
Don't tempt me, I totally have the body to rock that red trunks and kinky boots look. And the accent to match 8)
...Damn, now I want to see you in that...
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 07:27:33 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
And, as people go out and be more social, there will be LESS, not MORE psychos.
True that. If I didn't need other humans to keep me from going insane, I wouldn't bother with them.
People do kill each other over the dumbest shit, though.
*Shrug* whaddaya gonna do?
This looks awesome. I've followed a few similar games but haven't seen this yet, will have to check it out.
I am imagining how awesome this will be once combined with Google Glass and you get a popup notification on your HUD with an alarm: Portal being attacked, MOVE OUT.
People will have secret Ingress lives that they hide from their loved ones out of shame, and when caught sneaking out of the house for a few minutes at a time, multiple times a day, the speculation will cause MASS BUTTHURT.
Oh bollocks, it want's stuff from me to let me use it on my phone.....and won't let me use the appropriate fuckoff email.... :argh!:
I am going to play the fuck out of this before it gets a serious following here.
ALL OF YOUR UNDERPLANET WILL BELONG TO GREEN TEAM.
This is a really well put together app.
Oh, it's made by a Google Startup. I hadn't realised that and was amazed at the quality of the UI.
I bet this game is giving Google all sorts of awesome data about unmapped traversable areas and the like.
Quote from: Pæs on July 19, 2013, 12:36:03 PM
I bet this game is giving Google all sorts of awesome data about unmapped traversable areas and the like.
oh yeah, and your GPS coordinates are probably being pipelined right to PRISM, but that's probably happening anyway
They have really only begun to monetize, so it hasn't gone down the shitter yet. :p
So far, they have been making money by allowing select commercial locations to be portals. For example, Zipcar, Duane Reade, and Jamba Juices are typically Ingress portals. Look for the sticker on the front of any Duane Reade.
(http://beccasara.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/img_0847.jpg)
I wonder how much foot traffic it drives in. I'm sure more businesses will come.
So the two teams are technically called "Enlightened" (green) and "Resistance" (blue).
Here's why you should join the green team1. They're the underdogs. Far less green team players. So it's an uphill battle for us.
2. In the game plot, portals are these mysterious points that are leaking "exotic matter", or XM energy (basically the stuff that makes up your health bar). The difference between the teams is that the Resistance thinks the portals should basically be shut down, and the Enlightened team embraces them, believing that they are gates for these benevolent aliens called Shapers.
The game hasn't revealed much about the shapers. They might be aliens, they might be a mind virus. Some of the game clues suggest that they infiltrated humanity zillions of years ago and gave us the alphabet and taught us to think creatively. But I have concluded that they are the green shapeshifting reptile invaders that David Icke and Wiolawa (http://s6.zetaboards.com/Free_Thinkers/forum/33031/) were warning us about. So HELL YES, can I be on the alien reptile infiltrator from space team?
This might be the first time I've ever been sad that my cell phone only makes and receives phone calls.
This looks wicked cool. Hoping to switch from iphone to Android sooner than later, and this is just another reason to. In the meantime, I will have to resign myself to hiding out near geocachers and shaking my fist at any searchers that come by :sad:
Probably my favorite thing about geocaching is that it has helped me to discover trails and parks, etc. that may never have known existed before, and as you mentioned, this sounds like it helps to accomplish the same goals. And while there are geocaching events held, this game sounds like it would help expand interaction and socializing a bit more.
And yea, you can't hide from all the danger, so might as well get out and have fun (while employing reasonable caution). Would really like to try this out soon.
why won't they iPhone? :cry:
somebody made an iphone port of it, but I don't know anything about it.
http://ios-ingress.com/
I'm almost level two, having just casually hacked the few portals which are in range of my couch (kind of not the point, but oh well). I saw the portal outside my work change from green to white today and ran out to capture it back before the attacker deployed his resonators. I stood there dropping level one resonator after level one resonator and he tried to blow them up faster than I could deploy them while looking around to see who the hell was immediately responding with portal defence.
He eventually found me and we had a chat while he blew up my defences. I had dozens of resonators and he could one hit kill each of them, but I mildly inconvenienced him and considered that victory.
My entire city is blue and hostile but there's no organisation to it. There are idiots running around out there linking portals together in such a way as to capture the least amount of space with highest number of portals... but I can't attack them yet because I do minimal damage to their heavily fortified portals.
So I'll wait... and steadily level up. And chat with the other Enlightened in my city about when we'll strike and strategically link the city turning it green overnight.
This looks awesome. I'll be moving across the country soon, I have an Android phone, and I'm not naturally outgoing, so I'm thinking I'll use it as a personal pretext for exploring the city and making friends.
Am I correct to assume this game is only really playable in urban environments?
I really like the concept, but I live in the boonies
The really cool thing that people outside of urban centres can do is suggest local landmarks as portals.
Google reviews these and is likely to approve them if there's nothing else going on in your area, making a portal pop up in your area.
Then you've got a portal you can link to those in the urban centres, while remaining less accessible to the other team. If you strategically linked it to other portals in all directions, whenever you travel, you could set up a massive area of influence for your team with your personal portal as the linchpin.
The more I read up on the fluff, the more I like it. On its face, it looks like a pretty straightforward order vs. chaos struggle, with the Enlightened on the side of order and the Resistance on the side of chaos, but then there's the fact that the XM seems to be responsible for human creativity and invention, and that opens up a whole new can of worms. It seems the Enlightenment are cool with alien mind control, as long as it means things continue to change, and the Resistance are defiant even if it means total stagnation and permanent stasis. Then there's the connection of the Resistance to the NIA, a fictional office of the US government. It seems the only problem the NIA really have with the influence of the Shapers is that it interferes with their own. The Enlightened are starting to look more and more like the reckless, crazy awesome SCIENCE! faction and the Resistance are looking more like rabid xenophobes.
This sounds like an incredibly fun game...
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
Permission to quote?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
Submit to Bitter Tea?
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 25, 2013, 05:22:26 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
Submit to Bitter Tea?
I especially like it with Dok's comment.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 07:27:33 PM
And, as people go out and be more social, there will be LESS, not MORE psychos.
...making it clear that the Rugged Individualism and isolation is causing the problems which are being used as justification for the isolation.
Quote from: Pæs on July 25, 2013, 05:27:00 AM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 25, 2013, 05:22:26 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 18, 2013, 07:26:50 PM
The thing with psychos is there aren't that many. Not stabby ones anyway. Statistically your toaster is more likely to kill you than a stabby psycho. So why are we more afraid of psychos than bread cookers? Lets think about that. Why are we scared of psychos? Is it because the teevee paints a picture of psychos on every street corner, competing for victims with drug users, rapists and drunk drivers?
The same teevee which has a vested interest in persuading you not to go outside? In fact, has a vested interest in keeping you indoors, glued to the boob tube, watching commercials for toasters?
Submit to Bitter Tea?
I especially like it with Dok's comment.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2013, 07:27:33 PM
And, as people go out and be more social, there will be LESS, not MORE psychos.
...making it clear that the Rugged Individualism and isolation is causing the problems which are being used as justification for the isolation.
Fuck, yeah, that really just ties it up.
BUMP as the newest member of PD's Ingress Enlightened team.
Muahahaha.
Shit, we make him a level 3 user, and he goes all fucking power mad.
Enlightened?
Fuuuuuuuck.
*part of the East Kingdom Resistance Team...and should probably go out and play more in the new area.*
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2014, 01:45:55 AM
Shit, we make him a level 3 user, and he goes all fucking power mad.
You SAW the grin. You should have expected this.
Just waiting for Google to release the iOS version. They killed the 3rd party app, Ingrios.
Oops, not been near this thread for ages. Just in case anyone is awaiting permission to use my quote for a project - consider it granted
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on March 25, 2014, 01:43:05 AM
BUMP as the newest member of PD's Ingress Enlightened team.
Muahahaha.
In as ArsonNick. I'll be enlightening a woefully unattended portion of Marine Park in Vancouver here in just a few minutes.
Forgot about this, then remembered. Then, joined.
I have no idea what I'm doing, but there are a lot of Enlightened in the Copley Square area.
It's finally available for Mac! Downloading now.
This is gonna be great on campus!
Oh god oh god, do I choose Resistance or Enlightened? HOW TO CHOOSE?
It seems quite telling, in a way, what people end up choosing.
I went with Enlightenment.
There don't appear to be any Resistance in my neighborhood, which is a little disappointing. I'm trying to convince my boyfriend to download it too.
I went that way too. Walking through the financial district today was a totally new experience.
It turns out that Portland is almost all Enlightenment. :| I am guessing that the University area is probably even worse. You have to go out to the suburbs where the conservatives live to find the Resistance.
How allegorical...
What's enlightenment in terms of color? Is it green?
Yup.
Nigel, you may be able to cancel your account and start over...
Picked Enlightened to play with friends. The cops in town are Resistance.
Town flips often.
I joined but haven't played really, I tend to keep my phone's data off.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 16, 2014, 10:34:38 PM
Yup.
Nigel, you may be able to cancel your account and start over...
No, it's good, after spending some time about town I've seen that my neighborhood (more black and less rich) is mostly Enlightened, but there are large swathes of Resistance and overall it looks like the composition of forces in the region is about 54% Resistance and 46% Enlightened, so I'm totally pleased to be on a strong slightly underdog side that happens to be very representative of my neighborhood. It was absolutely fascinating driving around tonight, seeing that the wealthy neighborhoods tend to be strongly Resistance and the poorer and/or more liberal neighborhoods strongly Enlightened.
Also, my boyfriend is getting a new phone so he can play. ALSO ALSO. I own the dog park.
Awesome!
Looks like where I work has some patches of Resistance. I'm psyched my afternoon walks just got more interesting.
I just downloaded, but my phone is near dead. When it has some juice, I'm going to go out and spread the Enlightenment.
Dunno if this doubles as social media, but my Agent Name is (surprise, surprise) "LMNO".
I haven't played in a while since I moved, I should get back to that.
If anyone is Resistance in the Portsmouth, NH area, look for Alphadeltasigma.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 17, 2014, 01:41:12 PM
Dunno if this doubles as social media, but my Agent Name is (surprise, surprise) "LMNO".
Some crafty fucker had already taken "hoopla", so I went with "RexBologna".
Quote from: Trivial on September 17, 2014, 01:42:34 AM
Picked Enlightened to play with friends. The cops in town are Resistance.
Town flips often.
I joined but haven't played really, I tend to keep my phone's data off.
This is interesting.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 16, 2014, 08:49:31 PM
It turns out that Portland is almost all Enlightenment. :| I am guessing that the University area is probably even worse. You have to go out to the suburbs where the conservatives live to find the Resistance.
How allegorical...
Last I played a few months ago, Hawthorne to the river was all blue. Downtown/Pioneer Square as well.
Alberta's always contentious and there are a shit load of portals. I actually ran into a blue player IRL following me down Alberta, undoing all my good green work.
Wow, the area around work is really active! Stuff I've just done have already been flipped. I gota level up.
Added plus, GREAT motivation to walk around.
Yeah, this might just be the impetus to break my shut-in status.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 17, 2014, 04:48:51 PM
Wow, the area around work is really active! Stuff I've just done have already been flipped. I gota level up.
Added plus, GREAT motivation to walk around.
Seriously! I walked five miles yesterday without even registering it. This game is genius.
Right now I have the whole neighborhood locked down pretty tight, there were a bunch of portals but none of them were networked and there were no fields at all, which tells me that probably the rest of my faction here are kids. Today I plan to upgrade a bunch of the portals so I can create some fields, and hopefully level up so I can take the Whole Foods.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 17, 2014, 03:29:37 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 16, 2014, 08:49:31 PM
It turns out that Portland is almost all Enlightenment. :| I am guessing that the University area is probably even worse. You have to go out to the suburbs where the conservatives live to find the Resistance.
How allegorical...
Last I played a few months ago, Hawthorne to the river was all blue. Downtown/Pioneer Square as well.
Alberta's always contentious and there are a shit load of portals. I actually ran into a blue player IRL following me down Alberta, undoing all my good green work.
I was on Hawthorne yesterday and it was green green green, but on the other side of Hawthorne it was a deep blue sea.
They took Mary's Club before my very eyes, too.
I'm Nisslbody, BTW.
Today I made it to level 3, defeated and captured my first enemy Portal, made my first Field, and walked 5 and a half miles.
I don't think the kids in my neighborhood have any idea what they're doing, they didn't have any links made and most of their Portals only had two or three resonators. There were no fields at all. We could have this whole neighborhood inside a field if they were motivated.
Today we take Manhattan, tomorrow we take Berlin.
Woke up this morning, after making a field near my house, and they've cottoned on and made a bunch more fields. :lol: I think they skipped the training and have just been bumbling around. I should probably talk to Pym, thats the person who owns most of the nearby portals.
I crushed it today. Some Smurfs tried taking a few places near me, and I spent lunch running (well, walking) around taking care of business. My only fear is that it will go TOO green, and I won't have anything to do.
Smurfs!!!
Today I fielded a bunch of the neighborhood, and I need to make one more link by the end of tonight to have pretty much the whole neighborhood fielded.
I ran into Pym in person, he looks like he's about 14.
From what I've seen in the more contentious neighborhoods, the push-pull is quite strong and you may think you have it sewed up only to have half your Portals taken in a concerted attack overnight.
Someone was complaining in my feed about people making "stupid" links that make it impossible to complete larger fields. I was like, :lol: yeah let everyone else put their game on hold so you can make some huge field that makes it impossible to complete smaller fields, sure.
Yeah, a portal inside a larger field is pretty much useless, isn't it?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 11:45:22 AM
Yeah, a portal inside a larger field is pretty much useless, isn't it?
You can still link it to create sub-fields, which strengthens all of the connected portals and makes them harder to take over.
This morning, the Resistance took the water towers and the Whole Foods. The bourgeois scum seek to control XM completely, and keep it from the hands of the people, and our betterment. We are weak; our forces are not enough. Backed into our ghettoes, our territory diminishes hourly. A powerful Level 7 Smurf scum has taken the garden, and I, a lowly level 3, cannot long hold the dog park against him. Pym has vanished. I fear that soon I, too, shall perish.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 05:48:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 11:45:22 AM
Yeah, a portal inside a larger field is pretty much useless, isn't it?
You can still link it to create sub-fields, which strengthens all of the connected portals and makes them harder to take over.
Ah. Gotcha.
I'm trying to figure out how the system determines which portals you can link to. I seem to be unable to choose at will.
Also, my workplace just got attacked pretty hard. It's difficult to stay at my desk rather than run out defending my portals. Guess I'm hooked.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 05:52:59 PM
This morning, the Resistance took the water towers and the Whole Foods. The bourgeois scum seek to control XM completely, and keep it from the hands of the people, and our betterment. We are weak; our forces are not enough. Backed into our ghettoes, our territory diminishes hourly. A powerful Level 7 Smurf scum has taken the garden, and I, a lowly level 3, cannot long hold the dog park against him. Pym has vanished. I fear that soon I, too, shall perish.
I just got Lvl 4 today. You probably know this, but you get about 100AP every time you hack a Resistance portal. Just walking around and hacking can get you to level up that way. But the Lvl 5 limit is 150k. That's gonna take a while.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 05:53:36 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 05:48:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 11:45:22 AM
Yeah, a portal inside a larger field is pretty much useless, isn't it?
You can still link it to create sub-fields, which strengthens all of the connected portals and makes them harder to take over.
Ah. Gotcha.
I'm trying to figure out how the system determines which portals you can link to. I seem to be unable to choose at will.
Also, my workplace just got attacked pretty hard. It's difficult to stay at my desk rather than run out defending my portals. Guess I'm hooked.
I know, right?? I woke up with a screaming hangover, for which there is really only two good cures (sex or pho) and immediately jumped out of bed, leaving behind a perfectly good boyfriend, to defend my portals that were under attack.
Some tips on linking; you can't cross another link, you have to have the portal keys to both portals you wish to link, and the distance that can be linked is dependent on the level of the resonators on that portal. Portal keys are single-use. As such, I make it a habit (in all of my what, three days playing this?) to try to have portal keys for as many portals as I can at any given time, in case links get broken, so I can quickly repair them without running around to every portal in my neighborhood.
Ah, the not crossing thing was what was confusing me. Yeah, I have tons of portal keys. In a way, it's a good thing my block got hammered, because it broke all these wack-ass fields that had been building up.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 05:55:08 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 05:52:59 PM
This morning, the Resistance took the water towers and the Whole Foods. The bourgeois scum seek to control XM completely, and keep it from the hands of the people, and our betterment. We are weak; our forces are not enough. Backed into our ghettoes, our territory diminishes hourly. A powerful Level 7 Smurf scum has taken the garden, and I, a lowly level 3, cannot long hold the dog park against him. Pym has vanished. I fear that soon I, too, shall perish.
I just got Lvl 4 today. You probably know this, but you get about 100AP every time you hack a Resistance portal. Just walking around and hacking can get you to level up that way. But the Lvl 5 limit is 150k. That's gonna take a while.
I'm gonna level up today (when I go out for pho) attacking enemy portals, and then try to rebuild my neighborhood fields. I'll try to make some headway before Pym gets out of school.
YES I AM playing with a 14-year-old boy, WHY YOU LOOKIN AT ME LIKE THAT? :lol:
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 06:53:05 PM
Ah, the not crossing thing was what was confusing me. Yeah, I have tons of portal keys. In a way, it's a good thing my block got hammered, because it broke all these wack-ass fields that had been building up.
Yeah, the fact that territories are so transient really helps keep the game fun and challenging. Also the fact that lower levels can destroy higher level resonators if you just keep hammering away at them.
Higher levels can take out lower-level resonators like butter with a hot knife, though. My current nemesis undid all my brand-new fully-linked portals in literally the time it took me to walk away from them.
That's pretty much what I did during lunch. There was one portal I wanted, so I basically just kept walking around the area, farming blasters and going back for another round.
It's odd how attahed one gets to a portal. I suppose this is sort of like virtual territorial pissing contests.
What sort of mods do you use?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 07:00:49 PM
That's pretty much what I did during lunch. There was one portal I wanted, so I basically just kept walking around the area, farming blasters and going back for another round.
It's odd how attahed one gets to a portal. I suppose this is sort of like virtual territorial pissing contests.
It totally is. I'm really attached to the dog park, because DOG PARK. I own the DOG PARK.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 07:01:29 PM
What sort of mods do you use?
I like the heat sink, multi-hack, and shields. Also I don't know if you've figured out what power cubes do yet, but if your XM is low you can go into your inventory and deploy one to boost it back up... very useful in prolonged attacks. I just figured that out this morning.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 07:01:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 07:00:49 PM
That's pretty much what I did during lunch. There was one portal I wanted, so I basically just kept walking around the area, farming blasters and going back for another round.
It's odd how attahed one gets to a portal. I suppose this is sort of like virtual territorial pissing contests.
It totally is. I'm really attached to the dog park, because DOG PARK. I own the DOG PARK.
What's a metaphor, again?
Man this game sounds a lot more fun in big cities. I have one portal on my street, that I created, and the nearest ones are miles away.
Also, I hoard my portal keys. I have a half dozen or so from Colombia. I can look in on them from time to time and see how they're doing and look back on my trip. :)
I mean shit, I OWNED A FERNANDO BOTERO PORTAL HOW RAD IS THAT.
I believe you can submit suggestions for new portals.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 19, 2014, 08:18:40 PM
I mean shit, I OWNED A FERNANDO BOTERO PORTAL HOW RAD IS THAT.
That's pretty badass!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 08:57:37 PM
I believe you can submit suggestions for new portals.
Yes, you can: https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/2808254?hl=en
The bastards took the dog park.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 19, 2014, 08:57:37 PM
I believe you can submit suggestions for new portals.
I did, that's how I got the one on my street. The process takes a very long time. It's just that I'm surrounded by tenement houses and pharmacies. :lulz:
Make up so colorful local history. "The House That Lee Harvey Oswald live in for two months."
Also, the creepiest scanner of all time:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/3420F4FB-8AF3-4A46-9FD4-EF1AA6E2E63E_zpswakllz21.png) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Marburger/media/3420F4FB-8AF3-4A46-9FD4-EF1AA6E2E63E_zpswakllz21.png.html)
WHY IS IT DARK
LMNO, WHY ARE ALL THE LIGHTS OUT?
ALL IS VOID
NOTHING EXISTS
ALL IS NOT
NAUGHT IS ALL
I LIKE THE WORD 'NAUGHT'
Quote from: Your Mom on September 19, 2014, 09:37:52 PM
The bastards took the dog park.
Report them to the City Council immediately.
Just joined, and the Greens have established a MASSIVE foothold in Stony Brook and a GIANT field across both forks of Long Island. This is gonna be tough.
My neighborhood is in constant flux between the Resistance and the Enlightenment. We basically have only one high level player on our side, and there are a raft of high-level Resistance players making it very difficult for us to maintain our fields.
Luckily, my city is in flux. Spent my lunch break walking to Chinatown and back, hacking. Covered a lot of ground. Close to Level 5.
Due to being unable to play yesterday or the day before, I am nowhere close to Level 5. I might be able to make some headway today though, trying to take down these much higher level portals.
My strategy today wasn't to attack, it was to scope the grounds. I hacked any portal I could find, especially if it was blue, and then checked the resonators of the green portals, and deployed as much as was helpful. I had also blown all of my XM Blasters on a futile attempt against an L8 on Friday, so I needed to build up supplies.
I think that my main mission for this week is to submit new portal locations throughout the open areas in my neighborhood, such as street murals and community garden gates. Portals tend to be heavily clustered along thoroughfares, and much sparser in the neighborhood. I've submitted six so far, with plans for several more.
That's a good idea. Is it difficult to do?
It's super easy. Walk around until you find a spot you think a portal should be, then touch and hold on that location on your screen. Swipe to the right to select "New Portal". It flips to a screen where you take a picture, name the portal, describe the portal, and fine-tune the location if necessary, then you hit submit. Apparently it takes a couple of weeks for them to be approved/denied.
Here are the guidelines for portal candidates: https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/3066197?&ref_topic=2799270
Awesome. Thanks!
YW, enjoy!
4:40:40 = ? M
Quote from: Your Mom on September 22, 2014, 07:31:41 PM
Here are the guidelines for portal candidates: https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/3066197?&ref_topic=2799270
0k try again 2:40:00.0 = 4:47:40 ? stop rushing:
Anyway i dont get the GoGal Joke
IS there a list of already installed ? Positions /?
2 min REM }
AT SW MAIN & 11 { THERE WAS 1 ONCE RUN BY THE CITY }abandon
yeah a full min in connecting time
THus there must be scades of new stuff & a bed bug 2
Level five. That is all.
I just joined my area's google+ hangout. They're friendly but I dunno, maybe a bit intense.
"A level 10 Resistance is hitting downtown nb tonight. Could be a tourist but if not let's be prepared to deal with him."
Another one enters New Bedford. Another one never leaves. :sad:
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 01:02:42 PM
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
We've got a faction page on Google+. It's much less silly than the faction chat. It's for meetups and screen shots, mainly.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 22, 2014, 07:29:12 PM
It's super easy. Walk around until you find a spot you think a portal should be, then touch and hold on that location on your screen. Swipe to the right to select "New Portal". It flips to a screen where you take a picture, name the portal, describe the portal, and fine-tune the location if necessary, then you hit submit. Apparently it takes a couple of weeks for them to be approved/denied.
I submitted two. One got rejected. I still haven't heard back on the other one...
...Submitted within about a week of moving in to my last place. So, 6 months or so? I can't remember.
Didn't know if you knew about this, but if you tap a portal and hold down the Hack button, a mini "Glyph game" pops up, where in draws a glyph, and you have to match it. If you get it right, you get more items.
Did this one some months back. It took hours and many, many miles.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NSd9n31Zcnc/UzWdubDbTfI/AAAAAAAAG8k/58blBSJIJYs/w346-h203/SEVan.png)
Used 8 portals to create 12 fields. Ran out of keys, and I couldn't get the portals to give up anymore. Otherwise, by the way I designed it, I would have had 17 fields total with the thickest ones 4 layers deep.
Damn. That takes some planning.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 25, 2014, 02:39:07 PM
Damn. That takes some planning.
Yeah. Planned it all day. Got out there to paint the thing, and...well...that thing that plans do.
This was right around where I work, so there was about a week of spending my days taking over these portals, only to have them turn blue at night. Eventually, the people that were grabbing them at night lost interest long enough for me to pull this off.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 24, 2014, 03:43:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 01:02:42 PM
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
We've got a faction page on Google+. It's much less silly than the faction chat. It's for meetups and screen shots, mainly.
HOOK A BROTHER UP.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 25, 2014, 02:36:55 PM
Did this one some months back. It took hours and many, many miles.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NSd9n31Zcnc/UzWdubDbTfI/AAAAAAAAG8k/58blBSJIJYs/w346-h203/SEVan.png)
Used 8 portals to create 12 fields. Ran out of keys, and I couldn't get the portals to give up anymore. Otherwise, by the way I designed it, I would have had 17 fields total with the thickest ones 4 layers deep.
That's kickass! I can't maintain shit over here. Of course, I'm barely level 5.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 25, 2014, 03:15:54 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 24, 2014, 03:43:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 01:02:42 PM
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
We've got a faction page on Google+. It's much less silly than the faction chat. It's for meetups and screen shots, mainly.
HOOK A BROTHER UP.
Look for the Ingress G+ group in general, and then you can do some searches for "Enlightened of [region]", and see what comes up. Although, it looks like people got hella paranoid and moved off of G+ and onto "Slack", which is some sort of project management site. I'm not bothering.
But the Ingress group itself is fascinating. Seeing posts and updates from around the world is pretty cool.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 25, 2014, 03:15:54 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 24, 2014, 03:43:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 01:02:42 PM
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
We've got a faction page on Google+. It's much less silly than the faction chat. It's for meetups and screen shots, mainly.
HOOK A BROTHER UP.
I think this link should work:
https://plus.google.com/communities/117363490918996415729 (https://plus.google.com/communities/117363490918996415729)
You have to request membership.
If that doesn't work the name of the group is "PNW Enlightened".
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 25, 2014, 03:39:16 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 25, 2014, 03:15:54 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 24, 2014, 03:43:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 01:02:42 PM
Yeah, I peeked into my "Faction" chat, and then backed out slowly. Some of them take it very seriously.
We've got a faction page on Google+. It's much less silly than the faction chat. It's for meetups and screen shots, mainly.
HOOK A BROTHER UP.
I think this link should work:
https://plus.google.com/communities/117363490918996415729 (https://plus.google.com/communities/117363490918996415729)
You have to request membership.
If that doesn't work the name of the group is "PNW Enlightened".
Cool, thanks! I haven't spent much time with Google +.
I wonder how long it'll take the local Resistance players to get freaked out when I start communicating with them exclusively like a 40k space marine.
WITNESS THE BENEDICTION OF YOUR PORTALS
PURGE THE BLUE SCUM
XM FOR THE XM GOD, MUS FOR THE MU THRONE
YOU CANNOT ABATE THE EMERALD TIDE
YOUR RESONATORS ARE WEAK, AS IS YOUR FAITH
Unfortunately, those smurfs ANNIHILATED us last cycle. But it's the dawn of a new day.
I was in the middle of claiming my favorite local library when I found myself blocked. It was grey when I started, but blue when I attempted. An enemy was within 100 meters of me. I put down the phone and looked about, searching, and from within a silver Jeep he emerged, scraggly and smelling like work, and we talked about the game for a few minutes and it was Weird, and I loved Ingress just then, for what else would cause us to so converse?
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.
Why does it not surprise me that Google of all people made this? (regarding the impending media backlash)
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.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 29, 2014, 01:28:54 AM
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.
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.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 28, 2014, 01:03:33 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 29, 2014, 03:50:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 28, 2014, 01:03:33 PM
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.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 08:27:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 29, 2014, 03:50:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 28, 2014, 01:03:33 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 01, 2014, 11:51:36 AM
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.
Oh here we go: https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/4574603?hl=en
Nice! I'll try this on my walk to the bus.
Yeah, the glyphs take a little practice, but can be worth it if you're farming.
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. :lulz:
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.
Dude, that's perfect. Start running up your AP.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2014, 02:43:17 AM
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.
:argh!:
Did you know that when you hit 0 AP your scanner gets disabled and periodically gets red static across the screen? Because I now know that, from trying to hit a shielded level 8 resonator in my underwear while drinking a beer.
1. Power cubes.
2. AP from hacking enemy portals.
3. AP from attacking enemy portals.
4. This is your couchie. You have SOOOOOOO many more opportunities than they do.
So; patience.
There's some jerk who apparently lives at the strip mall and comes RUNNING to repair any damage I do, regardless of time of day or night. Schmandred. We hates him.
There's got to be a way to troll him.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2014, 11:55:40 AM
There's got to be a way to troll him.
I've been trying to come up with something. If you have any ideas, let me know.
One of my considerations was getting up at 3 am to destroy one specific resonator every night for a week.
Take a day off, and destroy a single resonator every 90 minutes.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2014, 03:27:40 PM
Take a day off, and destroy a single resonator every 90 minutes.
I like this. I can't take a day off, but I could devote an entire Saturday to it.
It'll also let you practice your Ultra Strike skills.
Today at lunch, I found a quite lovely and elaborate set of nested fields. The only problem was that I really didn't like the color. So I threw everything I had at a cluster of portals, and took that fucker down. I think I pissed someone off.
Sorrynotsorry.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2014, 05:13:57 PM
It'll also let you practice your Ultra Strike skills.
Today at lunch, I found a quite lovely and elaborate set of nested fields. The only problem was that I really didn't like the color. So I threw everything I had at a cluster of portals, and took that fucker down. I think I pissed someone off.
Sorrynotsorry.
:lulz:
So I leveled up, and now I can knock out Schmandred's portals with ease. So I have been dismantling them and leaving a single level 1 resonator on each one.
Fuck you, Schmandred. FUCK YOU. :lol:
:cheers: :bsex:
In other news, does your scanner randomly drift off as much as 20 meters from center? I'm having a really tough time narrowing in on resonators. No, I am not in the middle of the pond, thank you!
Nearby resonator fields will pull you off center.
Especially if you're low on XM
Ahhh. Good to know, thanks!
Quote from: Your Mom on October 03, 2014, 05:00:28 AM
There's some jerk who apparently lives at the strip mall and comes RUNNING to repair any damage I do, regardless of time of day or night. Schmandred. We hates him.
Let's figure out a time to hit the spot at the same time. He won't be able to deal with two attacks on his own.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 09, 2014, 07:48:12 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 03, 2014, 05:00:28 AM
There's some jerk who apparently lives at the strip mall and comes RUNNING to repair any damage I do, regardless of time of day or night. Schmandred. We hates him.
Let's figure out a time to hit the spot at the same time. He won't be able to deal with two attacks on his own.
YES.
Although Pym has mysteriously resurfaced, and now owns 90% of the portals around here.
I am now powerful enough to saunter into a dense web of blue portals and links and just fuck everything the fuck up. I am enjoying this.
Also today I had this thing happen where I started firing, and instead of going off after a few seconds like blasters usually do, it built up about 12 blast rings and just devastated the fuck out of the nearby portals when they all finally went off.
Yay! I'm level 7 now.
But someone came it and just completely WRECKED Copley square, and in the devestation, some greenboi hotshot decided to make these massive fields, making it really difficult to establish a strong network of links.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2014, 11:52:24 AM
Yay! I'm level 7 now.
But someone came it and just completely WRECKED Copley square, and in the devestation, some greenboi hotshot decided to make these massive fields, making it really difficult to establish a strong network of links.
I hate that. I think people go for it because they're point-farming, but it doesn't really further the cause.
On the other hand, I'm also in favor of everyone playing their own game, which means that sometimes we inconvenience each other. I am pretty sure I piss people off with my unstrategized random spiderweb of links everywhere I go.
Plus, now that I'm getting the rhythm of it, those fields will be gone in a couple of days, while I continue to manage my network of small, interconnected triangles. I'll see if I can post a picture.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IaU7bfgrvZ0/VDgR8zXObdI/AAAAAAAABL4/XrijsebKDyU/w418-h742-no/14%2B-%2B1)
Aw hell yeah! It's all about the small fields and many linkages. Today I absolutely devastated a whole region that was formerly blue fields just by hitting two key portals.
I'm only about 50,000 AP from level 7; I'm tempted to go find a densely blue neighborhood and wreak havoc.
I think there's someone blue who works in the same area; at the end of the day it felt like we were following each other around, flipping each other's portals. We're either going to end up friends or enemies.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 11, 2014, 01:49:15 AM
I think there's someone blue who works in the same area; at the end of the day it felt like we were following each other around, flipping each other's portals. We're either going to end up friends or enemies.
I have two of those: Auspex and Schmandred. Schmandred is actually Scdemandred, but I prefer to refer to them as Schmandred because it's funnier when I shake my tiny fist.
Also my old man on the side is blue faction so I refer to him as "sleeping with the enemy" when we exchange faction-specific material such as viruses.
My workplace has taken on the appearance of some Porkchop Hill scenario. I come in a 7:30, clearing portals as I go. Someone named "tralphazz" apparently arrives at 8:00 down the street, flipping as they go. If I need to stretch my legs, I'll counter attack in the morning, then build fields at lunch. Then they'll undo what was built, which (if I don't have meetings) I'll find the single point of maximum damage and take out. Then, as we go home, we more or less follow each other and leave a mess in our wake. I don't even know this person, but they're helping me to get to Level 8 better than I could if all I saw around me was green.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 07:11:51 PM
My workplace has taken on the appearance of some Porkchop Hill scenario. I come in a 7:30, clearing portals as I go. Someone named "tralphazz" apparently arrives at 8:00 down the street, flipping as they go. If I need to stretch my legs, I'll counter attack in the morning, then build fields at lunch. Then they'll undo what was built, which (if I don't have meetings) I'll find the single point of maximum damage and take out. Then, as we go home, we more or less follow each other and leave a mess in our wake. I don't even know this person, but they're helping me to get to Level 8 better than I could if all I saw around me was green.
Cram met a guy that way, wound up going out for a beer with him.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 07:11:51 PM
My workplace has taken on the appearance of some Porkchop Hill scenario. I come in a 7:30, clearing portals as I go. Someone named "tralphazz" apparently arrives at 8:00 down the street, flipping as they go. If I need to stretch my legs, I'll counter attack in the morning, then build fields at lunch. Then they'll undo what was built, which (if I don't have meetings) I'll find the single point of maximum damage and take out. Then, as we go home, we more or less follow each other and leave a mess in our wake. I don't even know this person, but they're helping me to get to Level 8 better than I could if all I saw around me was green.
Seriously, without the ongoing warfare with Schmandred and Auspex I'd still be level 4.
Boyfriend was complaining about all his work being undone by the enemy every day, and I pointed out that "Well, I guess I won forever" makes for a shitty game.
It does take on an "everything is transient" philosophy, eventually. I'm starting to feel the rhythm. I don't have an obsessive need (as much) anymore, and rush out when "my" portals are attacked. I'll get 'em at lunch, and then again when I go home.
Is it wrong to ask a L14 smurf to smash a green portal with absolutely idiotic links that's fucking up my business?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 06:02:49 PM
Is it wrong to ask a L14 smurf to smash a green portal with absolutely idiotic links that's fucking up my business?
I guess my thoughts on this are that at level 14, tiny little fields probably don't appreciably increase their AP so they probably work more on building huge ones, and also we all play our own game... the other day a friend of mine was all "What kind of asshole just neutralizes portals, undoing all of someone's hard work, and then walks away without even putting a single resonator on them?"
The answer is, me. I do that. I do it JUST BECAUSE I CAN.
We're all playing the same game, but we aren't all playing the same game.
Yeah, I left it alone, and just wait until it gets smashed all by itself, then I'll swoop in and make my cozy little web.
In regards to your friend, I got my hair cut last night in a heavy blue section of town, and I spent my time destroying fields, and leaving a single L1 resonator at each portal, because nyah nyeah, that's why.
:lulz: There's something very satisfying about it. I've also started destroying Schmandred's portals and then just leaving them white, shiny, mocking.
I considered that, but realized I get AP for deploying on a blank portal, so.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 16, 2014, 03:46:54 PM
I considered that, but realized I get AP for deploying on a blank portal, so.
Yeah. I've been blasting a lot while just passing through with limited time, so I've learned to love leaving them white.
Speaking of limited time, I have homework due at 4:40. :horrormirth:
And then midterms.
I look forward to reaching level 8. I am especially enjoying that when I blast away at a nearby portal, my range is such that I accidentally take out lower-level portals in the peripheral blast zone, leaving a wake of destruction behind me.
This is a thing I look forward to doing MORE OF.
I am mildly hopeful that I will get to a point where I can cruise around just wrecking the shit out of everything.
I wish that at higher levels you could go neutral and just become a force of destruction, wiping out all portals.
If you stockpile enough ADA viruses (virii?), you can do just that. Flip a portal's color, SMASH.
I also look forward to level 8 (almost at 1M points), and riding the subway, wrecking shit on the fly.
It was kind of a crappy morning at work, so I took a walk and accidentally the South End.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-wHf_-ZLj5LU/VEFo4hOk4GI/AAAAAAAABMs/0ElQxwZ1-YY/w418-h742-no/14%2B-%2B2)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ixmo7rbRGiY/VEFo4pU6gBI/AAAAAAAABM0/f8kuLCmJqeE/w418-h742-no/14%2B-%2B4)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 12:42:16 PM
If you stockpile enough ADA viruses (virii?), you can do just that. Flip a portal's color, SMASH.
I also look forward to level 8 (almost at 1M points), and riding the subway, wrecking shit on the fly.
I have a couple of the green viruses. I had a blue one but I traded it to my old man on the side for a green one.
My local faction Google Hangout just had an extended quotation of Monty Python in it.
My only regret is that I cannot level my own team's portals so hard that it actually makes their dicks smaller.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 17, 2014, 04:14:13 AM
I am mildly hopeful that I will get to a point where I can cruise around just wrecking the shit out of everything.
I wish that at higher levels you could go neutral and just become a force of destruction, wiping out all portals.
If that were the case, I would have motivation to level beyond 4.
Woo!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F5Jvex82Gw4/VEp_jcAmrVI/AAAAAAAABN0/ddnlf4eeJkc/w418-h742-no/d3ff7564-88bf-449c-9f8f-43d469bf687c)
These Level 8 bursters are awesome. I just took out a portal 125m away.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 24, 2014, 05:57:09 PM
Woo!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F5Jvex82Gw4/VEp_jcAmrVI/AAAAAAAABN0/ddnlf4eeJkc/w418-h742-no/d3ff7564-88bf-449c-9f8f-43d469bf687c)
These Level 8 bursters are awesome. I just took out a portal 125m away.
Niiiiice. Looks like I'm picking up the game again.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 24, 2014, 05:57:09 PM
Woo!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F5Jvex82Gw4/VEp_jcAmrVI/AAAAAAAABN0/ddnlf4eeJkc/w418-h742-no/d3ff7564-88bf-449c-9f8f-43d469bf687c)
These Level 8 bursters are awesome. I just took out a portal 125m away.
This is giving me incentive to get outside with the rest of the afternoon and see if I can make it to 1.1m AP today.
It occurred to me that you get more AP by building than destroying. Links and Fields give you much more than smashing resonators. That's probably on purpose.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 25, 2014, 12:09:54 AM
It occurred to me that you get more AP by building than destroying. Links and Fields give you much more than smashing resonators. That's probably on purpose.
Hm
Yes and no: I can rack up a stunning amount of AP in a short time by walking into a dense net of blue portals and just blasting at them for ten minutes, while setting up a field, especially a sizable one, can take half an hour or more of back-and-forth capturing keys.
Ingress in NOLA is great. That is all.
I'm envious.
On Halloween, I found myself in the midst of a majory action. How major?
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xzYQ_mOKqMY/VFbgZzhKO2I/AAAAAAAABOw/hjrDcIugm_A/w418-h742-no/34ffb27a-9b1d-4ef5-b1b1-2609e4d8e706)
All of NOLA was covered.
We never seem to get the big events in Portland, its kind of disappointing.
started playing on Tuesday, got to level three. The nearest portals to my house are green, not a lot of blue to harass unless i wanna take a longer walk.
My first job is Smurf city, dominated by level 8s. I can hammer away on a number of them without leaving my office, but it seems futile without doing some serious leveling.
My second job is better, i have four portals within two blocks of the school i work at, so i take a stroll before and after work to see how they doing and farm them for supplies. Today though this guys named galaxystars flipped two of my four portals while i was watching one of the Ingress videos. I suspect the reason he didnt flip the other two was that he strolled right past me while i was watching the vid between the two remaining portals and decided not to start some shit at night in the middle of downtown long beach. Or he was just a random person who walked past me staring intently at his phone while a lady rattles off what sounds like conspiracy theory. Hopefully I see him again and gain a frenemy
Happy to see that CSULB is a thriving battlefield, mostly green, but surrounded my pockets of blue(they control the blue pyramid, aprropriately) trying to get my friends who still go there to start fighting the good fight.
Level four is where it gets interesting. Keep hammering away at those resonators, you get AP for that, as well as hacking blue portals. But you knew that.
I have the points to level up to 9 but not the badges... I need two more silver badges to level up. The closest I am to silver, in a way that seems attainable, is Liberator (475 of 1000), Recharger (686,330 of 1,000,000), Explorer (599 of 1000), and Connector (698 of 1000). I think that my best bet is to focus on recharging, hacking new portals (which means finding new territories to play in) and making links, because it's relatively unlikely that I'll be able to claim 525 blue portals in the next week. Possible, but unlikely. Making 302 links in the next week also seems like a tall order, but if I pair it with hacking new portals it might be doable.
Quote from: Sexy St. Nigel on November 05, 2014, 08:27:02 PM
We never seem to get the big events in Portland, its kind of disappointing.
Are you on the Google+ page? I've seen a few big projects go down. They're kind of rare because they take tons of planning. But they're spectacular when they do.
Quote from: Sexy St. Nigel on November 07, 2014, 03:31:39 PM
I have the points to level up to 9 but not the badges... I need two more silver badges to level up. The closest I am to silver, in a way that seems attainable, is Liberator (475 of 1000), Recharger (686,330 of 1,000,000), Explorer (599 of 1000), and Connector (698 of 1000). I think that my best bet is to focus on recharging, hacking new portals (which means finding new territories to play in) and making links, because it's relatively unlikely that I'll be able to claim 525 blue portals in the next week. Possible, but unlikely. Making 302 links in the next week also seems like a tall order, but if I pair it with hacking new portals it might be doable.
Fort Vancouver right over by my work turns over pretty often and there's tons of portals in a small walkable area.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on November 07, 2014, 03:39:31 PM
Quote from: Sexy St. Nigel on November 05, 2014, 08:27:02 PM
We never seem to get the big events in Portland, its kind of disappointing.
Are you on the Google+ page? I've seen a few big projects go down. They're kind of rare because they take tons of planning. But they're spectacular when they do.
I've seen projects. But I'm talking about the anomalies and shit that Niantic sponsors/generates.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on November 07, 2014, 03:42:14 PM
Quote from: Sexy St. Nigel on November 07, 2014, 03:31:39 PM
I have the points to level up to 9 but not the badges... I need two more silver badges to level up. The closest I am to silver, in a way that seems attainable, is Liberator (475 of 1000), Recharger (686,330 of 1,000,000), Explorer (599 of 1000), and Connector (698 of 1000). I think that my best bet is to focus on recharging, hacking new portals (which means finding new territories to play in) and making links, because it's relatively unlikely that I'll be able to claim 525 blue portals in the next week. Possible, but unlikely. Making 302 links in the next week also seems like a tall order, but if I pair it with hacking new portals it might be doable.
Fort Vancouver right over by my work turns over pretty often and there's tons of portals in a small walkable area.
That's on the other side of that river, though. That makes it essentially the same as another planet.
The two portals near my house have been overtaken by smurfs. very high level, i spent about a half hour of directed attacks at the nearest portal, using up the lion's share of my bursters. also found out that it seems more effective to place oneself next to specific resonators when attacking, rather than standing next to the portals themselves. standing next to the portals places the resonators on th edge of your attacks, doing at most 4% of damage. Standing next to them seems to make more sense when you're punching above your weight, so to speak
Quote from: EL MAESTRO! on November 09, 2014, 11:51:39 PM
The two portals near my house have been overtaken by smurfs. very high level, i spent about a half hour of directed attacks at the nearest portal, using up the lion's share of my bursters. also found out that it seems more effective to place oneself next to specific resonators when attacking, rather than standing next to the portals themselves. standing next to the portals places the resonators on th edge of your attacks, doing at most 4% of damage. Standing next to them seems to make more sense when you're punching above your weight, so to speak
Yes, although if you are trying to take out mods standing near the portal is most effective.
My method is, if there are mods, usually to stand right on the portal and deploy an Ultra Strike followed closely by a blaster to clear the mods, then get as close as I can to the highest-level resonator and drop blasters until it's cleared. I deploy the lowest-level blasters that will do the job, to save my high-level blasters for well-reinforced level 8 portals.
I am only 212 links away from level 9, I'm gonna get out on my scooter tomorrow and find new territory.
In as GeneOMick (They wouldn't let me do O'Mick). Made level 5 today.
I'd remembered Cram mentioning this game when a friend of mine and Villager's went to pick her up at Logan Airport and he hacked a portal while we waited. I downloaded the app last Friday.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WLpOmYGxtXI/VI9EnFioiaI/AAAAAAAABlY/I7pmEBAYR2Q/w418-h742-no/14%2B-%2B1)
FINALLY. I woulda gotten this last month, but some spag kept attacking my guardian portal.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_dNzEQgAsbI/VI9Dnq9d-VI/AAAAAAAABlE/h1FWXDxv9M0/w236-h740-no/07098fc6-65ab-4e5b-867a-0857a8b4d549)
I'm curious, how do you guys set up for places you consider "your turf"? I have a number of mods just lying about in my inventory and i'm not sure how to distribute them effectively. Shields are a no-brainer if you want a portal to stick around for a while, as are turrets, but i get so few of those that i cant put them everywhere. Which leads me to the other mods, like link amps and multihacks, which i've yet to really get the value of
also i just had the epiphany of O RIGHT you need all 3 portal's keys in order to set up control field DURR HURR
Quote from: EL MAESTRO! on December 16, 2014, 02:24:42 AM
I'm curious, how do you guys set up for places you consider "your turf"? I have a number of mods just lying about in my inventory and i'm not sure how to distribute them effectively. Shields are a no-brainer if you want a portal to stick around for a while, as are turrets, but i get so few of those that i cant put them everywhere. Which leads me to the other mods, like link amps and multihacks, which i've yet to really get the value of
also i just had the epiphany of O RIGHT you need all 3 portal's keys in order to set up control field DURR HURR
I have no expectations of holding turf. I live in the most densely populated neighborhood in New England, I work in an area that includes top notch world class hospitals and some pretty solid universities (within, like a 5 block radius), and I go to a community college. There's quite a bit out in my girlfriend's new neighborhood, surprisingly, but it is blue as fuck and I'm only there from Friday night to Monday morning.
I worked with local Enlightened and we made my whole neighborhood green. I went to sleep and all of our work was undone.
I will note, though, that I regularly hack LMNO's portals, since I pass by his area of employment on the way to mine.
It's not a good idea to become too territorial with your portals, but I do have a "couchie" and a "deskie" I like to think of as MINE (that is, a portal always in range of where I sit during work, and a portal in range of my living room). I basically check them throughout the day, see how they're doing, and if they get hit, I can flip them easily.
As far as making some place 'your turf', there are two approaches. One, you meet up with a bunch of other players, and set up a large swath of L8 portals and fields. Those can last for a few days, if it's in the middle of a cycle.
The other way is to be a total pain in the ass, and patrol the area at least once a day, if not more (at work, I usually do a circuit around my building in the morning, go exploring/farming at lunch, and then circle again when I'm going home). Unless you're deep in enemy territory, they'll eventually move on.
In the end though, the only real way to maintain control is to have a lot of people in the same area working together. On the other hand, it can get kind of boring. My work neighborhood is almost always green, so there's not much to do aside from the occasional raids. I have to do some serious walking to get some action.
My neighborhood is mostly solidly green, but sometimes raiding parties rip through and turn everything blue. Like LMNO said, it gets a little boring if you aren't on a border between serious blue and serious green territory.
I've observed that, at least in Portland, I can fairly reliably predict which faction will control a neighborhood by the neighborhood's financial demographic. Million-dollar condos and houses are always gonna be blue, modest apartments and middle-class bungalows almost always green. University area: green. Museum area: blue.
Did you guys see all the new badges? I got leveled up to 10 thanks to the Trekker badge.
I can't figure out which portal I've had for 33 days. If I could figure it out I'd probably work harder at protecting it.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 03:33:03 PM
My neighborhood is mostly solidly green, but sometimes raiding parties rip through and turn everything blue. Like LMNO said, it gets a little boring if you aren't on a border between serious blue and serious green territory.
I've observed that, at least in Portland, I can fairly reliably predict which faction will control a neighborhood by the neighborhood's financial demographic. Million-dollar condos and houses are always gonna be blue, modest apartments and middle-class bungalows almost always green. University area: green. Museum area: blue.
Yeah, the burbs definitely seem pretty blue here as well. Which is interesting, but not wholly surprising. Things are going good, don't ruin that for me vs. things could be better, let's see what we can do with this.
Interestingly, I know a guy who thinks of Enlightened as serving some nefarious purpose and that's why he chose it. A bit of an outlier, there, being philosophically aligned with his enemies instead of his allies, but then again, he's a bit of an odd dude.
Yeah, I got a silver Trekker, 48km more to gold, and I'm working on the Engineer (modding a portal).
33 days? Damn, that's impressive.
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 03:41:22 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 03:33:03 PM
My neighborhood is mostly solidly green, but sometimes raiding parties rip through and turn everything blue. Like LMNO said, it gets a little boring if you aren't on a border between serious blue and serious green territory.
I've observed that, at least in Portland, I can fairly reliably predict which faction will control a neighborhood by the neighborhood's financial demographic. Million-dollar condos and houses are always gonna be blue, modest apartments and middle-class bungalows almost always green. University area: green. Museum area: blue.
Yeah, the burbs definitely seem pretty blue here as well. Which is interesting, but not wholly surprising. Things are going good, don't ruin that for me vs. things could be better, let's see what we can do with this.
Interestingly, I know a guy who thinks of Enlightened as serving some nefarious purpose and that's why he chose it. A bit of an outlier, there, being philosophically aligned with his enemies instead of his allies, but then again, he's a bit of an odd dude.
Yep, it's funny how different those perspectives can be!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 16, 2014, 03:45:31 PM
Yeah, I got a silver Trekker, 48km more to gold, and I'm working on the Engineer (modding a portal).
33 days? Damn, that's impressive.
It would be more impresive if I thought I actually had anything to do with holding it that long. :lulz: I'm pretty sure it's one that a bunch of other players reinforced up to level 8 and are defending.
Yeah, I got my 20 day due to the kindess of strangers.
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
I never use the Comm function. Though I suppose there are trolling opportunities...
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 04:52:50 PM
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
Haha, really?
The PNW Enlightened team refuse to admit me to their group, and won't say why.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 05:00:52 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 04:52:50 PM
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
Haha, really?
The PNW Enlightened team refuse to admit me to their group, and won't say why.
I was attacking this guy's portal while I was waiting for the train and he sent me a message that said go away shoo and then another saying go get on the bus or train, lol
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 05:08:14 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 05:00:52 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 04:52:50 PM
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
Haha, really?
The PNW Enlightened team refuse to admit me to their group, and won't say why.
I was attacking this guy's portal while I was waiting for the train and he sent me a message that said go away shoo and then another saying go get on the bus or train, lol
Hahahaha that is not how any of this works!
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 05:00:52 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 04:52:50 PM
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
Haha, really?
The PNW Enlightened team refuse to admit me to their group, and won't say why.
They're paranoid of spies.
I'm not kidding.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on January 07, 2015, 10:24:59 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 16, 2014, 05:00:52 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 16, 2014, 04:52:50 PM
Someone actually just told me to shoo
:lulz:
Haha, really?
The PNW Enlightened team refuse to admit me to their group, and won't say why.
They're paranoid of spies.
I'm not kidding.
Really?
Spies from what? It's kinda nuts that I'm pushing level 11 and they won't let me into their Google Group because... what?
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
There were two groups when I got in. I had to go through some sort of vetting process to get into the second. I don't remember what all it entailed, but it involved them checking some secondary profile, IIRC.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
There were two groups when I got in. I had to go through some sort of vetting process to get into the second. I don't remember what all it entailed, but it involved them checking some secondary profile, IIRC.
Well you know what? If they won't even approve my request to join or acknowledge my emails, from now on I will actively work to fuck up everything they do. They can look forward to being salted with link amps and fucked up links that thwart everything.
Paranoid shitstains.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2015, 04:08:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
QuoteOr maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
Summary of the human race ITT
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
And then Portland turned inside out and vanished. Efficiently.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
And then Portland turned inside out and vanished. Efficiently.
With a tiny sound, almost like the smacking of lips.
If anyone else is still playing, they've temporarily changed the symbols into Pac Man.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ERSHfU0OYUo/VRrejzgTzcI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FyFBRkDrHVc/w417-h742-no/15%2B-%2B1)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 31, 2015, 05:54:22 PM
If anyone else is still playing, they've temporarily changed the symbols into Pac Man.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ERSHfU0OYUo/VRrejzgTzcI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FyFBRkDrHVc/w417-h742-no/15%2B-%2B1)
I saw that this morning. :lulz: Slightly unnerving.
I'm addicted to Ingress.... Well, it's only been 3 days and most of the time my phone has been charging or I've been trying to reboot it so the app will run. Around the university campus are a ton of green portals with a few blues fighting back. Out in the 'burbs there's a lot of blue. For now I'm hoping I can get by with my old android. However, the urge to get a new phone is starting. Anyway - fun game.
The Powers That Be have cut WAY back on how much boot I get from hacking portals, to the point where I'm finding it difficult to play. Maybe I'm supposed to be working on setting up mega-fields? That seems to be the way gameplay is going, but I don't have the time or resources to work on that level.
It's an interesting game, but I can see how it gets difficult to play after a while. I don't mind walking more, but there's a limit to that. I would think, if anything, they'd give more loot to higher level players. Once you get to a certain level it seems players taper off their game time and decreasing resources might cost players. For me, for now, it's fun - as long as the app loads on my phone.
i agree, I'm starting to see a law of diminishing returns with regards to loot. I think this might be a feature to help chill out those obsessive players who might grind a game like this to the point that new players are as helpless minnows in the wake of the giant level 10 whales
I dunno. I can get plenty of loot in about an hour of walking. I sort of play it like a day of gathering/building, and a day of taking out fields. It probably helps that I'm currently living in high-level occupied territory, so there's tons of L7 and L8 to farm.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 25, 2015, 10:41:50 PM
I dunno. I can get plenty of loot in about an hour of walking. I sort of play it like a day of gathering/building, and a day of taking out fields. It probably helps that I'm currently living in high-level occupied territory, so there's tons of L7 and L8 to farm.
I'm in a zone that is essentially a clusterfuck of peanuts and chumps.
I live in a suburb so the picking are somewhat meh. Not terrible, joust not much compared to the insane concentration of portals i've seen in part of downtown Long Beach.
Now that it's nice out and I realized I still had this game, I started playing it again. I'm just shy of level 6.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
Big Words?
In follow-up news, my scanner gps is fucked and I'm getting a shit ton of "Hack aquired no items".
However, I'm only a few Sojurner days away from level 11.
has anyone else tried the missions? I'm getting a little bored with visiting the same portals around my house so i was thinking they might shake it up a bit.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on May 06, 2015, 03:22:24 AM
has anyone else tried the missions? I'm getting a little bored with visiting the same portals around my house so i was thinking they might shake it up a bit.
I've actually been pretty tempted by that. I live within (reasonable) walking distance of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
That's one of the damnedest things. Boston is an incredibly historic city, as far as American history goes, and the rest of Eastern Massachusetts is equally historic. About a month ago I looked at the tombstone of a man who was born before the English colonized North America. I don't normally do shit like that. I've never boarded the USS Constitution and it's RIGHT FUCKING THERE. When I look at the missions on Ingress, I feel ashamed.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
Big Words?
Oooh, please do!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on May 05, 2015, 05:47:18 PM
In follow-up news, my scanner gps is fucked and I'm getting a shit ton of "Hack aquired no items".
However, I'm only a few Sojurner days away from level 11.
Me too. The game seems a little crippled for me, I'm level 10 and out of almost all items. Just started regularly hacking the church down the street from my house in the hopes of eventually leveling up, because I can't earn another gold any other way without traveling.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on May 06, 2015, 03:22:24 AM
has anyone else tried the missions? I'm getting a little bored with visiting the same portals around my house so i was thinking they might shake it up a bit.
The missions are definitely fun. Some are harder than others... some, in fact, are pretty much impossible unless you are teamed up with someone on the other faction. Most are pretty straightforward though.
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Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on May 06, 2015, 03:22:24 AM
has anyone else tried the missions? I'm getting a little bored with visiting the same portals around my house so i was thinking they might shake it up a bit.
I've actually been pretty tempted by that. I live within (reasonable) walking distance of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
That's one of the damnedest things. Boston is an incredibly historic city, as far as American history goes, and the rest of Eastern Massachusetts is equally historic. About a month ago I looked at the tombstone of a man who was born before the English colonized North America. I don't normally do shit like that. I've never boarded the USS Constitution and it's RIGHT FUCKING THERE. When I look at the missions on Ingress, I feel ashamed.
Don't see it as a failure to live up to some arbitrary standard, see it as an opportunity to see many interesting things for the first time!
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Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on May 06, 2015, 03:22:24 AM
has anyone else tried the missions? I'm getting a little bored with visiting the same portals around my house so i was thinking they might shake it up a bit.
I've actually been pretty tempted by that. I live within (reasonable) walking distance of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
That's one of the damnedest things. Boston is an incredibly historic city, as far as American history goes, and the rest of Eastern Massachusetts is equally historic. About a month ago I looked at the tombstone of a man who was born before the English colonized North America. I don't normally do shit like that. I've never boarded the USS Constitution and it's RIGHT FUCKING THERE. When I look at the missions on Ingress, I feel ashamed.
Don't see it as a failure to live up to some arbitrary standard, see it as an opportunity to see many interesting things for the first time!
Good point
I was just walking the dogs and a guy in a white jeep with the window rolled down stops right by me. I wave at him as the dogs sniff the bushes. I can see the light of a phone on his face. He says, "Hi sir. Just playing a game." He puts the phone away and turns around and leaves the neighborhood. My phone's SD card died a couple days ago so I haven't been playing. It took me a while to realize - that SOB flipped my portal. :argh!: :lulz:
yea, I'm vaguely dreading the day I run into one of these guys that takes this game WAY too seriously.
Frigin tell me that pen needs a tip. Great, like I have nothing else to do.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2015, 01:16:16 PM
It's really weird. The Boston Enlightenment group has stopped using G+ to plan their raids, and have set up "invite only" websites. It's kind of nuts.
It's kind of bullshit. I'm assuming that I will be permanently uninvited from any PNW Enlightenment activities because the Old Man is Resistance.
Or because you reek of non-compliance. You create a vortex of chaos from which no productive results can escape. Portals would ACTUALLY WORK, and your team members would be sucked into Dimension X, where the Electrical Gods would rent them out to rough trade.
Or maybe they're just wrecking a great game by being elitist, exclusionary fuckbags.
I'ma go make all their shit work properly. I'll show them.
In Portland? There's gonna be panic in the streets.
MY REVENGE WILL BE HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL AND SMOOTHLY OPERATING.
Big Words?
Oooh, please do!
Black and white and full color versions up in the Big Words thread now.
I'll be right up. Anyone got a safe-house SOMA?
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on May 07, 2015, 07:27:38 AM
yea, I'm vaguely dreading the day I run into one of these guys that takes this game WAY too seriously.
I don't know if those guys exist. I'm sure they do somewhere, but this game has a pretty string social networking component and so far, it's been pretty cool.
Yeehaw, you guys still playing? I joined RES middle of March. Fuck y'all hippy toad bastards, I'll never surrender! Besides, I was raised orthodox sectarian. Consciously, I'm over it but my fkin limbic system would straight up veto any attempt to choose green over blue, under any circumstances. Evar!
Mrs P3nT like smashing things up and making tons of AP, I like Chasing MU. Middle of nowhere, middle of the night, waiting for the green light to chuck the baseline. We're the perfect mom and pops team. I've topped the leaderboard twice in my cell, once in juliet-05, to the west and I've been top 10 RES in juliet-03, over Edinburgh and Dundee.
Some of my ops
13 layers from falkirk baseline, through bannockburn up to the middle of Stirling town center.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A2nWkTLkdNqqdepphcDa9tSOgRv_PBhRTh2FFqcZCDY=w533-h947-no)
Variation on a theme, with batwings
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/n6RlysIrdT93npJI8eBoyRTGAKUwy14k6osudZd6j5U=w977-h731-no)
Paper Dart - Glencoe to Drymen (that's Loch Lomond in the bottom left)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TgBDVqE6SffYf8eBPE3J7lldGLZYheGhyBIoV-5WJj8=w820-h777-no)
Arran an Kintyre - P3nTw1Fe and I on holiday
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1tUKb9F0B2tQo7Vzh5j7YGq5YkQte58F2iy7cCY3UxE=w451-h573-no)
Persepolis Anomaly - Got a badge for planning and running a team of 10 for this blocking op coast to coast from St Andrews to Oban. UK RES had intel the green scumbags were planning a BAF over Liverpool
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oRVhv2h6aY2tnXxBz_lgBWKK7T3wsWmEqdZ_pMuCfyI=w1143-h857-no)
Last weekend earned platinum illuminator badge for my part in a 7 man op, set up by the Alloa posse. 14 layers From Aberfeldy to Tyndrum, down to bannockburn. The green fields, covered in blue, at the bottom are like an arrow, pointing at the city of stirling and all it's inhabitants.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L_mtrtflyaHvaXUBm-94i9Z_5MWlLqCuNacYttvCYxI=w741-h739-no)
Just under 3 million mu left to field for Onyx badge. Gonny have to go bigger!
Whoa.
I was going to ask what you'd been up to but it's kind of obvious now. That bannockburn one is funny as fuck, the comments when this shit gets noticed the next day must be classic.
No shit. Best part was we shot for 02:00CP and thot maybe, if we're doing well, it'll make 07:00. Turns out Pahous. Head of the stirling amphibian scum. Had been on the lash saturday night with his cronies, after the FS event he and CreakyOstritch from our mob had organised in stirling. First one in scotland. Around 50 agents flying around the town, wintrading like mofo's and levelling up noobs. He woke up, so find himself swimming in 14 layers of smurfcum and belted out to b'burn on the bus, only to arrive at the scene of the crime 3 minutes past noon. 3CP at 200 kiloskulls a pop!
Didny hear much from him on comms after that. :lulz:
So is everyone from pd aligned with the crap faction? :evil:
Old people and conservatives seem to gravitate toward the Resistance, college students and liberals tend to gravitate toward the Enlightenment. I'm a toad, my boyfriend's a Smurf, and we catch no end of hell from our crossfaction group for our interspecies relationship.
Finally broke down and tried this out. It's ridiculously addictive. Even after spending the day broiling under the sun chopping back some horribly neglected weeds, it still enticed me into wandering halfway across town.
Would have probably done more, but my phone died.
Had this song running through my head the whole time, making me grin like a maniac.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCSgdBbH9pNn-dRp5hymLBSQ
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 13, 2015, 11:41:23 PM
I'm a toad, my boyfriend's a Smurf, and we catch no end of hell from our crossfaction group for our interspecies relationship.
I'll bet! Not sure I'd ever be able to 100% trust a smurf who was sleeping with the enemy. Ops game makes you paranoid. "Is this hangout secure?" :lulz:
Quote from: Dubya on July 14, 2015, 05:44:38 AM
Finally broke down and tried this out. It's ridiculously addictive. Even after spending the day broiling under the sun chopping back some horribly neglected weeds, it still enticed me into wandering halfway across town.
Would have probably done more, but my phone died.
Had this song running through my head the whole time, making me grin like a maniac.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCSgdBbH9pNn-dRp5hymLBSQ
It gets a lot less addictive after level 10. Unfortunately.
I reckon I'll get L11 eventually but I doubt I'll be playing long enough to do 12, despite having enough badges. Oculus comes out next year. Planning on dropping off the face of the earth around then
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 14, 2015, 09:55:10 AM
I reckon I'll get L11 eventually but I doubt I'll be playing long enough to do 12, despite having enough badges. Oculus comes out next year. Planning on dropping off the face of the earth around then
:lulz: If you already have the badges for level 12, I salute you, sir, because after a year of play I have enough AP to make L12 but I am far from having 6 silvers.
I'm one gold short of L13 but I'll never grind that much AP. Fielding game is all about the skull-count. Only 1250AP for a million plus MU, I'll take no.1 slot on the cell leaderboard every time.
I concentrate on getting bang for my buck with fields so my actual Mind Controller is still silver. Planning on getting black Illuminator before Mind Controller goes gold.
The other bit I really dig is Translator. Glyph game is a wicked way to make sure you always have plenty kit when your daily farm is maybe 15-20 P7's. Because I came to the game late and the translator was already a thing, I'm still on track to earn black in that while my hacker is still bronze. So that's another goal I'm working on.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SEViYAZIP3k1oHVHSc4XbceRnUjvdIXf5-wSbi8nExw=w533-h947-no)
Kudos to you, sir! That's intensive gameplay. I think that around here people make the higher levels mainly through group play, and I don't have the time.
Also, apparently I lied about not having 6 silvers. It's gold I'm shy on; I need one more to level up to 11. And four more to level up to 12, I think. :kingmeh:
Defo a group game. We've got a pretty good setup here in forth valley. Three 8's on my manor, keeping it blue, 5 guys across the river in alloa and a couple in stirling. The local toads are alright as well but only one of them is worth a fuck on comms and he's been away on holiday for the last fortnight. Further afield we've got good connections in Glasgow and Edinburgh and one of our team makes regular visits to perth and inverness so we're hooked into uk ops and some of us (not me - I need to prove myself first and do trial by burning knives or some shit) have connections with global ops.
Game is a perfect fit for me. I'm a video game geek but I like being outdoors and now they've turned outdoors into the map for a video game. I'm already having wet dreams about where this is headed once the Visor display platform matures a bit.
You seen Clandestine Anomaly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8JhfI9ZkNc)?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 14, 2015, 11:10:37 PM
Defo a group game. We've got a pretty good setup here in forth valley. Three 8's on my manor, keeping it blue, 5 guys across the river in alloa and a couple in stirling. The local toads are alright as well but only one of them is worth a fuck on comms and he's been away on holiday for the last fortnight. Further afield we've got good connections in Glasgow and Edinburgh and one of our team makes regular visits to perth and inverness so we're hooked into uk ops and some of us (not me - I need to prove myself first and do trial by burning knives or some shit) have connections with global ops.
Game is a perfect fit for me. I'm a video game geek but I like being outdoors and now they've turned outdoors into the map for a video game. I'm already having wet dreams about where this is headed once the Visor display platform matures a bit.
You seen Clandestine Anomaly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8JhfI9ZkNc)?
No but I want it. Want want want.
Not sure I really fancy waving my phone about trying to see what's going on but once hololense or magic leap release 2nd or 3rd generation wearables, this is the kind of shit I'll be playing. Every time I think about that I have a spontaneous nerd-gasm :oops:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 15, 2015, 12:00:21 PM
Not sure I really fancy waving my phone about trying to see what's going on but once hololense or magic leap release 2nd or 3rd generation wearables, this is the kind of shit I'll be playing. Every time I think about that I have a spontaneous nerd-gasm :oops:
I've been playing it today and so far, it's pretty good. But then again, I have no problem with looking like a complete fool in public.
My default is looking like a complete fool in public or in private but it's the limitedness I'm against. Even MS 1st gen hololense aint going to cut it, with what amounts to a small screen sized window in the middle of your field of view. I want my digital imagery seamlessly overlaid on my IRL, 20/20 or GTFO.
I'd rather wait 5-10 years than make do with a half assed solution right now. I was like that with laptops and I was like that with mobiles. I'll make an exception with Oculus VR cos I've tried the prototype and it's good enough. 1st quarter 2016 is when I drop of the face of the earth for a couple of months
Is google glass still a thing? Because it looks like the kind of thing that would be perfectly suited for it.
I'm actually surprised there isn't a range of peripherals yet. I would have thought Nintendo or some-such had enough experience with the Wii/ancient light gun tech to try something innovative here.
Glass has been quietly promoted to standalone department in google, it was previously under x-labs experimental projects. After google acquired magic leap speculation is rife that glass 2.0 might be a lightfield display, in which case - holy fuck, prepare to be amazeballs! Meanwhile MS is launching hololense next year as an untethered unit (all the processing is onboard) but the display size is apparently pretty shit. Windows 10 has hololense support built in. Meta have been plodding away with regular community circlejerks and the like but, out of the three, it's looking more and more like they'll be arriving late to the party.
All in, 1st gen AR looks like it's going to be pretty shitty unless glass2/lightfield makes an appearance. As yet glass is in stealth with nothing but speculation on what they're releasing next.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 16, 2015, 12:54:18 PM
Glass has been quietly promoted to standalone department in google, it was previously under x-labs experimental projects. After google acquired magic leap speculation is rife that glass 2.0 might be a lightfield display, in which case - holy fuck, prepare to be amazeballs! Meanwhile MS is launching hololense next year as an untethered unit (all the processing is onboard) but the display size is apparently pretty shit. Windows 10 has hololense support built in. Meta have been plodding away with regular community circlejerks and the like but, out of the three, it's looking more and more like they'll be arriving late to the party.
All in, 1st gen AR looks like it's going to be pretty shitty unless glass2/lightfield makes an appearance. As yet glass is in stealth with nothing but speculation on what they're releasing next.
For a given level of shitty, perhaps. Either way it'll still be an impressive leap. It's within our lifetimes that Asteroids and Doom were considered the height of gaming entertainment. Even first gen tech here will be impressive, no matter how crippled or what the issues are. With another 10 years of open development it's going to fly.
For example, PC games went from this in 1994:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/The_Elder_Scrolls_-_Arena_in-game_screenshot_%28MS-DOS%29.png)
to this in 2011:
(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gWxSCChMOm0/maxresdefault.jpg)
And that's not even a game that makes a huge point of selling point of graphics, really. Another 15 years or so and we'll probably be looking at a similar leap in quality for AR/VR.
Defo. the good thing with AR/VR is the starting point is already based on current gen GPU's, so gfx wise we're talking 1280p per eye, full pixel shading aniostropic dof whatever the fuckery. The GFX rendering quality is state of the art. Cracks appear around the viewing angle which, in first gen iteration, is somewhere around the 100-120o mark. What this means is no peripheral vision, kinda like you're looking down a tube.
I've seen it. It's not pretty but, IMO, it's something I can live with. Same as I could live with 8 bit gfx back in manic miner days. The head tracking and the refresh are seamless. 90fps is enough to fool the clunky, 10 million year old gpu I have in my head. The billion year old reptilian modules are convinced they're actually there. I can have fun with this shit.
AR can wait. I dunno enough about how lightfield works other than - "something... something... it pings photons into your eyeballs exactly the same way IRL does..." so I dunno if it suffers from narrow FOV issues but I think it'll make more of a difference with AR because the effect is overlaid on 180o eyeball-vision. So you're seeing picure in picture which is a lot harder to believe than a little tunnel vision.
As a replacement mobile display, coupled with a decent NLP assistant, I'll be an early adopter but I can't see me playing many games on it. Basically just save me the hassle of taking my mobile out my pocket.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 16, 2015, 10:22:34 AM
My default is looking like a complete fool in public or in private but it's the limitedness I'm against. Even MS 1st gen hololense aint going to cut it, with what amounts to a small screen sized window in the middle of your field of view. I want my digital imagery seamlessly overlaid on my IRL, 20/20 or GTFO.
I'd rather wait 5-10 years than make do with a half assed solution right now. I was like that with laptops and I was like that with mobiles. I'll make an exception with Oculus VR cos I've tried the prototype and it's good enough. 1st quarter 2016 is when I drop of the face of the earth for a couple of months
It's not really an either-or. I want to play fun games that have me running around outside now AND in 5-10 years.
I'm not really a gearhead, I'll take whatever's available.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 16, 2015, 04:55:58 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 16, 2015, 10:22:34 AM
My default is looking like a complete fool in public or in private but it's the limitedness I'm against. Even MS 1st gen hololense aint going to cut it, with what amounts to a small screen sized window in the middle of your field of view. I want my digital imagery seamlessly overlaid on my IRL, 20/20 or GTFO.
I'd rather wait 5-10 years than make do with a half assed solution right now. I was like that with laptops and I was like that with mobiles. I'll make an exception with Oculus VR cos I've tried the prototype and it's good enough. 1st quarter 2016 is when I drop of the face of the earth for a couple of months
It's not really an either-or. I want to play fun games that have me running around outside now AND in 5-10 years.
Defo. I'm just as happy playing with older, more mature platforms while the new stuff is going through it's clunky/crappy phase. Something like Ingress but with some decent combat mechanics and base management would suit me fine in the short term. The non-ar bits of that Clandestine vid look great I could just do without the whole half arsed Ar display part.
We're starting to see actual VR centers open up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cML814JD09g) using a similar model to laser tag - play a video game with your whole body. Get the gamer off the couch and into a social setting.
Last night's shenanigans. Operation: Dougie's Double Trouble. 9 layers, 3 covering Glasgow and 6 over Edinburgh. 5,716,888MU, two platinum illuminator badges. 20 agents. Biggest op I've been involved in yet. Totally stoked we got it done!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Y2DBg3-wjIPE2m3khfJTyK0y_k9klz2b2tbrXZt4NtM=w1222-h579-no)