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Tusen Takk posted:Has anyone else noticed that most of the greenies are the type of people who only went green because then they could say they're enlightened? Pretty much every enlightened player I've met has been a complete sperglord or one of those guys who thinks he's incredibly smart and above everyone else. I went green because the history of basically every faction pvp game is that the smaller side ends up with more interesting gameplay and better community, and Enlightened sounded very much like the less popular side. Then again, I installed the game without any real idea what it even was and it took me a while to realize that the movement of my guy was tied to my GPS. I didn't realize, or even check, how much less popular green was at the time, but I probably would still have gone green anyway. Atlanta Enlightened community is one of the few remaining things about Atlanta I actually like. edit: it also seems kind of contradictory to say greens are the sperglords yet have the huge and vibrant community, since nobody hates spergs more than other spergs? Coldbird fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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I went blue because the guy who got me to play is blue. It would've been a tossup otherwise. (Though I briefly considered going green just to annoy him)
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Sep 17, 2014 18:16
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Tusen Takk posted:Has anyone else noticed that most of the greenies are the type of people who only went green because then they could say they're enlightened? Pretty much every enlightened player I've met has been a complete sperglord or one of those guys who thinks he's incredibly smart and above everyone else. I went ENL for three reasons: 1) I like green. 2) At the time, Pittsburgh was almost entirely blue and I wanted quick level up. 3) I investigated both local communities, and the Enlightened one seemed friendlier and more active. Two years later, it still is.
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Sep 17, 2014 18:18
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I went green because I like the color green. Plus, brilliant glowing neon green is the team color of the Seattle Sounders, my favorite soccer team.  Deep reasons, I know.
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Sep 17, 2014 22:03
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I mean who wouldn't want to look like that dude.
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Sep 17, 2014 23:24
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I went green because out of the two 'teams' I preferred green, simple as that  When I joined, there were no portals within 10 miles of my house, so local players didn't matter, as there weren't any Theres loads of portals now, 42 of which are my submissions, so it's more fun to play these days, even if it now means my drive to work takes longer ... but I also get out and about on my pushbike in the evenings.
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Sep 17, 2014 23:52
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Yeah, like I said it's probably not the case everywhere, but it sure seems to be here haha 
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I went with what was the lesser faction in the area. I will say that choosing to go that route has pros and cons. Pros: You level up way faster Develop a real "us vs. them" mentality You get to know individual members of your faction better Cons: Just accept that anything you do will be destroyed within 15 minutes to an hour The predominate side will bully the smaller side Both sides are filled with aspie sperg lords
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Sep 18, 2014 00:14
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Here it's pretty even, though there are more blue megafields than green now that I think of it.
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SalTheBard posted:
^ that part makes me glad I was an 'early adopter' - I live i the sticks, in the UK, so when I started playing I submitted a few portals, that got accepted, I captured them, and it took 221 days before the blue team noticed so all this recent worry about Guardian portals has passed me by 
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Sep 18, 2014 00:26
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spiny posted:recent worry about Guardian portals Ugh this. Both sides here have people that do literally nothing else than to curate spreadsheets on enemy GP's and hunt them. It his god drat impossible to get anything past 20 days and I've driven an embarrassing amount for a cell phone game to try and locate GP candidates.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:01
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What is a guardian portal?
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Tusen Takk posted:What is a guardian portal? If you own a portal long enough, you get a badge. I was playing today and realized that even if I get followed around, it's still better than having nobody else playing. We don't stab each other, otherwise that wouldn't be fun.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:00
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Tusen Takk posted:What is a guardian portal? A portal, generally out of the way and left with only a res or two, captured and maintained with the hopes that it lasts long enough to score you a guardian badge without anyone on the other side noticing.
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Tusen Takk posted:What is a guardian portal? Once you get to level 8, you have to have certain levels of achievements to level up further, so players are encouraged to try to get as many achievements as possible. Most of the achievements require a lot of work (destroy 10000 enemy resonators, for example), so the 'hold a portal for 90 days' one, the Guardian achievement, seems like an easy one. Just find an out-of-the-way portal, put down resonators, and hope no one comes by. That's a guardian portal. The trick is that people will actively farm the intel map for data on which portals have been up a long time and go and destroy them, so you either need to be extremely sneaky, or put the portal in an extremely hard to get to place. Or, one guy in my area basically hit level 8 months before everyone else and basically said publicly 'All I want is this one portal. You leave it alone, I won't knock down all your portals. You touch it, I flatten the town. Repeatedly'. And it worked. He got to 120 days. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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I chose blue because my brother started playing a week or two before me, and I actually started so I could help him blow up stuff controlled by a green player who we happened to know from many years before. Both sides have some really die-hard players around here, but I find our locale is devoid of the sperglords that others seem to encounter. It's pretty friendly, I'll stop and chat with opponents when I encounter them, and I think the communities reinforce that. I've dealt with some poorly behaved players in the past when they were newer, and I think on both sides we've managed to keep everything under control and get people to understand what is/isn't acceptable. More active communication really seems to help when players get hotheaded. It seems, as far as coordination, the other side was set back by one or two uncooperative/adversarial players. Of course, in an adjacent region/cell, there have been a couple times recently where players harassed/threatened others to a criminal degree. Handle it as it comes, and discourage your teammates from going after them with a baseball bat. Defuse, don't destroy. Tusen Takk posted:What is a guardian portal? A portal owned/controlled by a player without being neutralized for a long time. You earn guardian badges when you control that portal for 3/10/20/90/150 days.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:20
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One of the obsessive enemy sperglords here keeps his work portal in peak farming mode - level 8 with mods so it can be hacked every two minutes for sixteen hacks before burning out. If he only knew how much ammo he gave me today milking that thing.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:48
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Setups like that are just begging to be flipped with a Jarvis / Ada. Makes 'em so mad.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:55
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It was considered. He'd probably have a conniption on the spot.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:57
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My favorite tactic on portals like those is to blow up the mods with ultrastrikes (provided you can get in the center) - and just leave the resos alone
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Deceptive Thinker posted:My favorite tactic on portals like those is to blow up the mods with ultrastrikes (provided you can get in the center) - and just leave the resos alone Blow up the mods, flip it over, get 4 link amps on it (2 if you're solo), then flip it back. You get bonus points if it's level 8.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:55
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chemosh6969 posted:Blow up the mods, flip it over, get 4 link amps on it (2 if you're solo), then flip it back. You've really got to hate the dude a lot though because you'll have to stand around there for an hour so you don't waste the second flip card (and keep them from blowing it up in that intervening hour).
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chemosh6969 posted:Blow up the mods, flip it over, get 4 link amps on it (2 if you're solo), then flip it back. The Australian Shuffle is the best way to gently caress with people, but these days it takes an hour. Back when the flip cards and link amps were new things you could do it in thirty seconds, rendering an entire farm into a lake of tears.
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kitten smoothie posted:You've really got to hate the dude a lot though because you'll have to stand around there for an hour so you don't waste the second flip card (and keep them from blowing it up in that intervening hour). Instead of flipping portal right away just blow it up. Then fill mod slots with link amps and place all level 1 resonators as close to portal as possible. Once that is complete then you flip it to their team. If they upgrade any of the resonators they are just setting it up for you to easily destroy the portal with minimal xmp usage.
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DrPlump posted:Instead of flipping portal right away just blow it up. Then fill mod slots with link amps and place all level 1 resonators as close to portal as possible. Once that is complete then you flip it to their team. If they upgrade any of the resonators they are just setting it up for you to easily destroy the portal with minimal xmp usage. I love soft bricking people's pet portals.
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DrPlump posted:Instead of flipping portal right away just blow it up. Then fill mod slots with link amps and place all level 1 resonators as close to portal as possible. Once that is complete then you flip it to their team. If they upgrade any of the resonators they are just setting it up for you to easily destroy the portal with minimal xmp usage. Around here that's known as "flowerpotting" for some reason. And it's always hilarious. 
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That reminds me of how my desk portal right now is a L8 portal with 3 VR shields and a link amp, placed by friendlies. Why the hell? It's in a farm of about 65 portals and people link all over the place, you're not going to be able to link 10 loving yards in any direction, let alone six states away.
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http://shouldideployalinkamp.com/
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kitten smoothie posted:That reminds me of how my desk portal right now is a L8 portal with 3 VR shields and a link amp, placed by friendlies. Why the hell? It's in a farm of about 65 portals and people link all over the place, you're not going to be able to link 10 loving yards in any direction, let alone six states away.
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DrPlump posted:Instead of flipping portal right away just blow it up. Then fill mod slots with link amps and place all level 1 resonators as close to portal as possible. Once that is complete then you flip it to their team. If they upgrade any of the resonators they are just setting it up for you to easily destroy the portal with minimal xmp usage. Some low level player will see a lvl 1 portal and blow it up for points. That's the way I see it.
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kitten smoothie posted:You've really got to hate the dude a lot though because you'll have to stand around there for an hour so you don't waste the second flip card (and keep them from blowing it up in that intervening hour). Where I'm at I just need to walk through town, farming as I go, and then I'm fine for time.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:57
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He Extends
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Sep 18, 2014 21:59
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( https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/118054689537110054363?hl=en-GB )
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I saw a real VRLA last night for the first time
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Deceptive Thinker posted:I saw a real VRLA last night for the first time Did you try and kill it?
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chemosh6969 posted:Did you try and kill it? It wasn't on a portal - it was in a teammate's inventory he is saving for future megafields and/or shard game (inside a capsule so he didn't accidentally deploy it)
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Sep 19, 2014 01:57
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What exactly happens if I link my G+ account? Is it gonna auto post everything I do in the game?
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Spectral Werewolf posted:What exactly happens if I link my G+ account? Is it gonna auto post everything I do in the game? No. It puts a link to your G+ profile in your Ingress profile so ingress weirdos can stalk you easier. They were already doing that though.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:No. It puts a link to your G+ profile in your Ingress profile so ingress weirdos can stalk you easier. It's one more column to add to that spreadsheet the other side was keeping, that already had your picture, home address, work address, and car tag number.
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Spectral Werewolf posted:What exactly happens if I link my G+ account? Is it gonna auto post everything I do in the game? People will randomly message you on Google+ to yell at you for attacking their portals.
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