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To be honest, anything after 8 is only really enjoyable by playing with other people. Solo is a boring grind after that.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:44 |
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I honestly have quit playing because the internet in the mall I work at is terrible and the local community sucks. Also the game destroys my battery life
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 19:45 |
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I was super into ingress from 1-8, but once I hit 8 any interest I had kinda faded away. It was hard work to get from 7 to 8, but it's nothing compared to getting from 8 to 9. I think the lack of any real benefit is what's keeping me from progressing; when I was at 7 I wanted to keep going so that I could hit 8 and use all the awesome level 8 stuff I had, but what reason is there for me to hit 9? More XM? Running out of XM has never once been a concern to me since the update where they upped power cube drop rates.
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 21:00 |
If it was just more XP it'd be fine, but the medals are a bit ridiculous to get. The fact that you don't gain anything but a huger mana bar is a good thing, otherwise old established players would be stupidly overpowered. iirc you have to be level +1 to jarvis or ada a portal so a level 8 can't flip a level 8 portal but a level 9 can. That might be the only other difference. The increased XP has people out doing stuff, which is cool. This was my day yesterday: Two small cities changed hands more than once during that battle. This is a rural area so six people being in the same place at once is very unusual.
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 21:16 |
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Javid posted:If it was just more XP it'd be fine, but the medals are a bit ridiculous to get. The fact that you don't gain anything but a huger mana bar is a good thing, otherwise old established players would be stupidly overpowered. Took me about 2 days before I turned off those email notifications, and not much longer to turn off the application's notifications. Far too annoying, constantly hearing how someone's burst took 1% off one of my portals. These days I just whip out the phone occasionally if I'm bored downtown, do some hacking, flip some portals, I'll hit L7 eventually.
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 21:35 |
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Javid posted:iirc you have to be level +1 to jarvis or ada a portal so a level 8 can't flip a level 8 portal but a level 9 can. That might be the only other difference. It's actually -1 - A level 7 player can JV/ADA a level 8 portal Differences are XM bar and recharge distance. I believe higher levels get a higher efficiency for recharges further away, as well as an increase in max distance The actual benefit of a larger XM bar is minimal. Like, at 14 I can chug 2 L6 cubes at once and not worry about wasting XM.
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 21:42 |
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The larger bar is great if you're attacking a close cluster of portals and the enemy was smart enough to put a turret on each of them. That will drain you fast but I rarely ever see that strategy in action. When it has happened, I'll end up putting noticeable dent in my millions of recharge cubes.
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# ? Oct 27, 2014 22:07 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:To be honest, anything after 8 is only really enjoyable by playing with other people. Solo is a boring grind after that. This. I'm ~100 links from level 9 but holy poo poo was that more of a slog than 1-8. I remember someone (this thread?) saying they played by leveling to hit 8 only to abandon & start a new character, rinse, repeat. That's probably significantly more fun than going for badges. I like Ingress, but that MMO-esque grind is tiring. Has there been any announcement of a release date for EndGame?
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 22:12 |
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I'm quite enjoying 'medal hunting' I've been L10 for ages, but I only need two more Gold. Planning trips to hit up enemy areas is quite nice, I've been to quite a few parks and open areas near me that I haven't been to in years
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 22:27 |
IOS client update just dropped. We can edit and report invalid portals now! Still no push notifications.
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# ? Oct 30, 2014 21:05 |
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Deceptive Thinker posted:It's actually -1 - A level 7 player can JV/ADA a level 8 portal Javid posted:iirc you have to be level +1 to jarvis or ada a portal so a level 8 can't flip a level 8 portal but a level 9 can. That might be the only other difference. Nope. The player using a virus or refactor has to have the level of the portal x 1000 in xm. So flipping an 8 portal requires at least 8000 xm in your bar, etc. A level six player can flip a level eight portal, because they have xm capacity.
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# ? Nov 2, 2014 14:22 |
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P_T_S posted:Nope. The player using a virus or refactor has to have the level of the portal x 1000 in xm. So flipping an 8 portal requires at least 8000 xm in your bar, etc. A level six player can flip a level eight portal, because they have xm capacity. See...this is what happens when I've been over level 8 for so long and start to forget how things work at lower levels I can JV/ADA a level 8 portal and it only uses half of my bar
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# ? Nov 2, 2014 14:42 |
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This is happening tomorrow. https://twitter.com/ingress/status/529725299869908992 Ingress posted:On Thurs 9AM PT, describe #Ingress in 7 words. Exceed 1000 tweets/hour to unlock Onyx Innovator, addl week 2X AP.
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# ? Nov 6, 2014 07:28 |
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"Your wife's grave? It's a L6 portal."
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# ? Nov 8, 2014 01:48 |
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UK Players did a thing today (well, over the last two weeks really, but it finalised today ) As most of you hopefully know, it's Remembrance Sunday today, and it marks 100 years since the end of WW1 (Armistice Day is on the 11th) so one player decided that it would be a fitting tribute to blanket the UK with the Union Flag and a Poppy. I can't imagine how much work and collaboration this took, there were many, many local hangouts created and lots of travel involved - I had to let a load of stuff decay and virus a few of my own portals as one of the links passed directly though the village I live in, but this is the result: animated GIF (not mine): IITC pic (not mine): so glad it worked out, there appeared to have been a more than a few grumbly players upset about many things, but I guess some people would be upset by free AP ... spiny fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Nov 9, 2014 |
# ? Nov 9, 2014 15:10 |
Making people unable to link while under giant fields is really a lovely game mechanic, I don't blame people for being irritated when they log in to one.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 16:50 |
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Javid posted:Making people unable to link while under giant fields is really a lovely game mechanic, I don't blame people for being irritated when they log in to one. Just because it irritates you doesn't make it a lovely mechanic. Without it there's no incentive to take down mega fields.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 19:12 |
When someone throws a giant field over four states and you're stuck in the middle, it's not like you can just go bust the anchor. People will take out enemy megafields regardless. They finally put notifications into the ios client, but they don't work. :| Anyone else having better luck?
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 23:32 |
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Javid posted:When someone throws a giant field over four states and you're stuck in the middle, it's not like you can just go bust the anchor. People will take out enemy megafields regardless. Agent, if you aren't driving 4 states away for the cause, you should turn in your badge. Think about all the unique portals you'd be able to hack along the way and new ones you could submit.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 02:00 |
This would've been an AWESOME game when I was a trucker.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 02:26 |
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Javid posted:This would've been an AWESOME game when I was a trucker. I don't think a truck that actively avoids highways to get more portals and pulls into every church parking lot on the route would be very profitable. Mail delivery, cops, traveling consultants, and live performers/actors/musicians however, would be set in this game.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:03 |
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Javid posted:If it was just more XP it'd be fine, but the medals are a bit ridiculous to get. The fact that you don't gain anything but a huger mana bar is a good thing, otherwise old established players would be stupidly overpowered. Maker Of Shoes posted:To be honest, anything after 8 is only really enjoyable by playing with other people. Solo is a boring grind after that. Javid posted:They finally put notifications into the ios client, but they don't work. :| Anyone else having better luck?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 03:07 |
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Well, this is neat - I've been granted access to author mission trips! I don't know if this a rare thing or not, but I'm going to play with this soon.
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# ? Nov 25, 2014 22:30 |
A guy here said the same, but nobody else has it. Guessing it's a slow rollout.
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# ? Nov 25, 2014 22:55 |
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Javid posted:A guy here said the same, but nobody else has it. Guessing it's a slow rollout. I don't even know how the hell I got selected; I'm only L10 and I haven't even been playing a lot.
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# ? Nov 25, 2014 23:10 |
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Everyone level 9 and higher was given access yesterday. I've had access for a few weeks and I think it was a terrible idea to unleash it on so many people at once, it's pretty buggy and unfinished - there are also going to be so many terrible missions popping up from people that have been only playing for a month or two, and the approval time is going to wind up being as bad as the portal approval time
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 00:15 |
Must just not be in the ios client yet. Shocking.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 00:26 |
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Javid posted:Must just not be in the ios client yet. Shocking. It's not in the client - it's a webapp http://mission-author-dot-betaspike.appspot.com You need to be "verified" with the in-app/website verification in addition to being level 9
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 00:41 |
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Deceptive Thinker posted:Everyone level 9 and higher was given access yesterday. Is there a way to filter out missions to only show the ones near me or is it going to be even more unusable than before with the flood of new missions?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:11 |
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chemosh6969 posted:Is there a way to filter out missions to only show the ones near me or is it going to be even more unusable than before with the flood of new missions? It should automatically do this, but the filtering system isn't really adjustable or intuitive When I'm in Providence, I only see all of the RI missions, when I'm in Boston, I only see the Boston missions - somewhere in between I get a mix of Boston, RI, Connecticut, and Worcester missions
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:41 |
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I made it to level 7 just grinding alone and messing up poo poo for the heavily-dominate blue team. The most fun part of this game is baiting strangers to drive to the tiny park behind my house to destroy a single portal with a single R1, so I can run out to the deck and blow up whatever they put on as soon as they drive away. Tonight I got 4 visitors in two hours. On a side note, Amazon has this super size 13000mah external battery pack on sale. It even has a flashlight for your late night trespassing. http://slickdeals.net/f/7457162-ank...monday-deal?v=1 eddiewalker fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Dec 2, 2014 |
# ? Dec 2, 2014 03:53 |
I wish I'd gone green; blue is absurdly dominant here, and growing moreso. It's downright boring. On the upside, 900+ of my inventory is munitions. If our side ever forms a war party to another area, I'll have some fun.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 05:01 |
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Event passcodes: D5mc9kalij X9vn3nkgmg
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 20:05 |
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eddiewalker posted:Event passcodes: Hahaha I'm swimming in level 1 resonators!
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# ? Dec 7, 2014 07:08 |
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Lazy_Liberal posted:Hahaha I'm swimming in level 1 resonators! I needed them today! Thank you! I think I put down some 200 resos today.
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# ? Dec 7, 2014 07:34 |
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Lazy_Liberal posted:Hahaha I'm swimming in level 1 resonators! I had no idea what they were. I wrote them down before I realized the iOS client can't use codes. I ranked pretty well at the AP-contest event just by dropping a single L1s on unclaimed portals then waiting for someone to fire off a L8 burster a few blocks away so I could reclaim all the same portals. eddiewalker fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 7, 2014 |
# ? Dec 7, 2014 20:43 |
You can plug codes into the intel map: https://www.ingress.com/intel
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# ? Dec 7, 2014 22:13 |
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eddiewalker posted:Event passcodes: These codes are fully redeemed. They were provided for the #ingressfs starter kits, so only have lower level gear and 200 available uses.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 14:27 |
Had I known that I wouldn't have used them.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 20:46 |
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Javid posted:Had I known that I wouldn't have used them. Whatever. It's only a game.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 23:55 |