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MisterBibs posted:What is the best way to knock off shields? Ultra strikes on top of the portal? Low level bursters work if you are out of ultra strikes. I have friends who always have about 200 or more ultras and I'm lucky if I can get 10 after farming.
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Barrista posted:Low level bursters work if you are out of ultra strikes. My whole item loadout is out of whack. I'm less than 100k to L8 and have a decent chunk of L8 gear waiting for me, as well as lower tier stuff. But because lower-tier stuff doesn't pack as much punch, you need to keep more of it around. Which means I tend to run into that 2000 item limit a lot.
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Apr 3, 2015 02:00
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Item storage characters are common. A lot of people won't admit it, but they're a thing.
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Apr 3, 2015 02:16
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Heh, yeah. If you do cross faction meet up, and want to start a bunch of drama and possibly a war, ask folks to log out, and show you what other accounts they have logged in. Holy poo poo what a mess.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:27
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Honestly stuff like that deepens my immersion. All that cyberpunk hack jockey playing-both-sides bullshit is so neuromancer it's awesome to experience "IRL"
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Apr 3, 2015 21:54
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godzirraRAWR posted:Heh, yeah. If you do cross faction meet up, and want to start a bunch of drama and possibly a war, ask folks to log out, and show you what other accounts they have logged in. Holy poo poo what a mess. iOS users, go to the Gmail app and clear your alt accounts from "Manage Accounts" before going to a big meetup. They'll also be cleared from Ingress and save you from all of this drama.
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The best thing I ever did in my relatively short time playing Ingress was totally gently caress up a local op (for my side). The guy that was planning the op was a total douche bag that is primarily the reason I quit playing. He spent roughly 3 weeks planning a massive op, and the linchpin of his op was a park called Geezer Park that has about 10 to 12 pretty clustered portals. I had friends on the Resistance side and I told him "You should get some people and go to Geezer Park Friday night at 7pm." The comms were hilarious because everyone was too busy accusing each other of being moles that I (a well respected Enlightened member) was not ever suspected. But this is the reason why people are so paranoid about who they let into their groups, I played the long game and it was totally loving worth it.
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SalTheBard posted:The best thing I ever did in my relatively short time playing Ingress was totally gently caress up a local op (for my side). The guy that was planning the op was a total douche bag that is primarily the reason I quit playing. He spent roughly 3 weeks planning a massive op, and the linchpin of his op was a park called Geezer Park that has about 10 to 12 pretty clustered portals. I had friends on the Resistance side and I told him "You should get some people and go to Geezer Park Friday night at 7pm." The comms were hilarious because everyone was too busy accusing each other of being moles that I (a well respected Enlightened member) was not ever suspected. But this is the reason why people are so paranoid about who they let into their groups, I played the long game and it was totally loving worth it. Green is more fun on the other side of the stateline.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:50
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eddiewalker posted:Green is more fun on the other side of the stateline. That sounds positive, because 2 years ago in KC it was horrible.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:52
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SalTheBard posted:That sounds positive, because 2 years ago in KC it was horrible. We outnumbered, but rag-tag and scrappy.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:56
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Don't know if it's Australia's notoriously lovely technological infrastructure or what, but I tried to hack a bus stop today while sitting at that bus stop and it kept telling me I was out of range. Samsung Galaxy S5 on Telstra, if that makes a difference. I pretty much expected that to happen before I even downloaded the app, so I'm not exactly heartbroken.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:08
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That's entirely down to your phone's GPS capabilities, actually, unless Australia has figured out how to gently caress that up too.
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Javid posted:That's entirely down to your phone's GPS capabilities, actually, unless Australia has figured out how to gently caress that up too. I would have thought an S5 would be more capable than most phones, but I guess not.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:21
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It isn't always logical. My ancient iphone (4) is dead on for locations, even indoors.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:43
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I have the oddest issue when it comes to Ingress and GPS: it perfectly finds my location, but it sucks at determining my direction. It means using the app as a crude hands-off map is generally out of the question, and on-foot it makes me look like I'm reenacting the "You had it upside-down this whole time?! bit from Galaxy Quest.
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Apr 5, 2015 03:03
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Recently, we had a green player power up three portals that are well known to have no service at all (and have in one case never been captured before ever) and throw a really annoying field that nobody can take down. We're not sure if he rented a sat phone, found some wifi, or straight up spoofed. The "gently caress you" manner in which it was done is kind of hilarious, though: It's not enough MU to matter, it's just covering our main farm so we can't link it up. :  I can't help but admire the effort that must've went into that plan.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:13
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From hells heart I stab at thee!
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Apr 8, 2015 20:23
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Javid posted:Recently, we had a green player power up three portals that are well known to have no service at all (and have in one case never been captured before ever) and throw a really annoying field that nobody can take down. We're not sure if he rented a sat phone, found some wifi, or straight up spoofed. The "gently caress you" manner in which it was done is kind of hilarious, though: It's not enough MU to matter, it's just covering our main farm so we can't link it up. How long has that been up? All of the "impossible" fields I have seen have come down within a day. A player annoyed with the field always has a sat phone, a boat, a security clearance or at least knows someone who does.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:26
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Get some people and daisy chain a wi-fi connection to places like that? Maybe throw in some pringles can antennas for greater distance. Depending on the area, you might just need a laptop and a pringles can for the signal. I could see the guy that did it renting a sat phone over spoofing. Might have been able to get it from his work. I thought he did some networking type stuff.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:28
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Scipio Africanus posted:How long has that been up? All of the "impossible" fields I have seen have come down within a day. A player annoyed with the field always has a sat phone, a boat, a security clearance or at least knows someone who does. It's a few days old now. chemosh6969 posted:Get some people and daisy chain a wi-fi connection to places like that? Maybe throw in some pringles can antennas for greater distance. Depending on the area, you might just need a laptop and a pringles can for the signal. ios doesn't do this, but the android players tell me you can go to a spot, turn off the GPS, then rush to somewhere you get service and do your thing before ingress realizes it isn't getting location data. Something like that wouldn't surprise me (or particularly bother me since they still went to the place)
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Javid posted:ios doesn't do this, but the android players tell me you can go to a spot, turn off the GPS, then rush to somewhere you get service and do your thing before ingress realizes it isn't getting location data. Something like that wouldn't surprise me (or particularly bother me since they still went to the place)
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Apr 8, 2015 21:01
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Seems also weird that two of those portals are "Post Offices" even though from satellite view they're absolute nothingness on rural dirt roads.
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Apr 8, 2015 21:31
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A lot of post offices were automatically added based on records so the addresses may or may not be correct. The staff are also poo poo-awful at acting on invalid portal reports.
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Does anyone know how the game tracks the Trekker badge? I'm beginning to suspect that my number of miles traveled is low (87km or so) because I don't leave the app front-and-center and the phone screen on when I'm walking between portals. Am I right? Or does the game still count it if the game is idling in the background?
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Yes, you must have the scanner open in order to track traveled distance. Android disables Location services for any idling applications after a few minutes for power-saving reasons. Maybe there's a way to work around this using a rooted device?
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Pentaro posted:Android disables Location services for any idling applications after a few minutes for power-saving reasons. Maybe there's a way to work around this using a rooted device? No, it has to be an app thing, not an Android thing. I use Strava to GPS-track my bike rides, and it works just fine even with the screen off, or with another application in the foreground. Ingress could do the same thing, but it isn't set up to. (Probably because people would leave it on accidentally, and completely drain their batteries in only a few hours.)
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You have to actually do stuff too. Like if you leave the app running for a long bike ride (which counts too) but don't hack anything, it won't count. I know on iOS there are jailbreak tweaks to keep the app active even if you minimize it to do something else. This will wreck your battery as you might expect, though.
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Is there a consensus on the optimal way to mod a portal for mitigation/damage against the opposing players? Two turrets and a FA on a single shielded portal seems to sacrifice some defense unless clustered with other turreted portals. I like to save AXAs unless I'm deploying in the boonies and can potentially recharge it over a few volleys. Otherwise they seem to attract ADA/Jarvis too much. How do you guys mod while solo?
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Pillow Armadillo posted:Is there a consensus on the optimal way to mod a portal for mitigation/damage against the opposing players? You're not going to prevent a portal from being taken when its by its lonesome but you can make it less attractive. High level (7+), full mods (basic shields are fine for this) and links. Links add to a portal's defense rating as well. High dollar mods such as AXA's, VR shields, turrets and FA's are more effective in portal clusters as the attacker takes damage from multiple sources making a nuke and pave a much more intensive ordeal. Portals in the boonies are best used as anchor points for kiting clusters and higher MU counts for populated areas you're kiting. It's trivial to strip the mods from a lone portal with ultra strikes and a cube or two.
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The optimal defensive loadout in my opinion is two rare shields, a force amp, and a turret. A linked-up farm of this is a bitch to take down, though nothing is invulnerable. Putting four AXAs on something would be pretty hilarious, but too expensive unless an event win hinged on it.
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Javid posted:The optimal defensive loadout in my opinion is two rare shields, a force amp, and a turret. A linked-up farm of this is a bitch to take down, though nothing is invulnerable. At that point it's just going to get virus traded every hour.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:At that point it's just going to get virus traded every hour. There was a portal near me, a mural of a moon and stars which is now a blank wall, and at one point there were four axas on it. Held for a week of constant daily assaults several times a day. While the portals around it would be levelled by x8-fire, our mighty fortress and its links preventing them from hooking up their conquests.
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I just started playing and I've got some nodes that I'd like to link, but before I walk out in the rain to capture them I wanted to know if your link lines could intersect friendly link lines and still form an MC field.
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squidflakes posted:I just started playing and I've got some nodes that I'd like to link, but before I walk out in the rain to capture them I wanted to know if your link lines could intersect friendly link lines and still form an MC field. No, links cannot cross other links.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:No, links cannot cross other links. Amusingly enough, a player in my town did just that today. Obviously some kind of weird bug, but it was so surreal to see 
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Apr 10, 2015 21:49
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It can happen if two people throw at the same time but it's unlikely.
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We got one of those locally yesterday. Something was going on with the servers.
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Brawnfire posted:Amusingly enough, a player in my town did just that today. Obviously some kind of weird bug, but it was so surreal to see
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Possibly. Here's what it looked like on Intel, which is stranger still because this shows no formed fields whereas scanner does.
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 This is what the nearby one looks like. The link has been up for almost 24 hours I believe. Not just a ghost link.
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