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There's a portal I can hack right from my office at work. I like boosting or adding resonators to it, hearing the 'ping' of it being attacked, and then looking down at the fellow geeks with cell phones right outside.
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Huh. My triumph was to submit 12 portals. I don't know if they'll be accepted, but my subdivisions were tragically lacking in them. Hopefully, that has been rectified 
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Nov 10, 2013 02:37
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EscortMission posted:There is a portal about 4 blocks from me named "Ostentatious Bike Rack." Yes we fight over a strategically important bike rack. Soon, I hope people will fight over a strategically important urban forest sign.
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Nov 10, 2013 08:15
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During the week, I mostly farm from the bus on my daily commute, for some lengthy play on the weekends. I also told my Computer Science teacher about the game, and she's really interested in all the different concepts and facets involved. I have a feeling that an essay on the game for the rest of the class is in my future. (She doesn't have a cell phone, however, so i doubt that she'll actually start playing soon.)
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Nov 13, 2013 17:52
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Portal submissions are being evaluated. I got two of mine accepted so far  , and two of mine rejected. One, which was a fire station, I can understand why it was rejected - I didn't read the submission guidelines close enough, and I didn't know I shouldn't submit those. But the second one was a bar. Did it get rejected because it's a bar? Or some other reason? (The ones that got accepted were in public parks and trail systems.)
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Dec 10, 2013 19:46
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So, some three weeks ago, I submitted about 12 portal submissions. 5 were accepted, and they we for local parks and sculptures. 2 were declined, and I understand why. But I had some 5-6 declined, even though they met the submission guidelines as 'independent, locally owned businesses'. And there's similar businesses (Mexican restaurant, Asian grocery store) in the same area that were successfully made into portals. This isn't in a very portal dense area. Anyone know why? Or, can they be resubmitted? There's just no reason that El Sabraso can be a valid portal, but El Quetzal a few blocks away can't. (However, as long as 'places of worship' are encouraged, I can submit some churches. There's a zillion in my area of town, and they're not portals yet.)
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Dec 12, 2013 21:42
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Loucks posted:Could be this, but I've only managed to get two submissions approved so what do I know? I think that 'Drinky Bird' theory is correct. I'm just going to submit 'places of worship' for a while, because those seem to be easily accessible, and almost guaranteed to be accepted.
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Dec 13, 2013 00:51
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PerrineClostermann posted:Just keep submitting. That's how most people get portals approved, myself included. Sweet - I'll just keep on doing that then. 6 of my portals got accepted so far, and now I'm seeing other players capture them. Which makes me feel all  inside.
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Dec 14, 2013 20:29
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I ran into some friends who are in a 'team'; they invited me to join them, and then immediately told me I was playing the game 'wrong', technique wise. I nodded, smiled, hung with them for a tiny bit, but I don't think I'm going to join up with them, ultimately. I'm playing more recently, just because I have time to devote to it's intended purpose for me, which is to get outside and walk long distances while blowing poo poo up. At this point, I don't care if I never get to Level 8, I'm just in it for the exercise. Lately, I've been having the most fun finding esoteric art and other interesting places (like churches), and submitting them as portals. There's a church by where I live that has stained glass patterned doors, lions in front, and trumpet blowing angels on the roof. I have no idea why this majestic place of worship wasn't a portal already; hopefully I have rectified that
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Dec 21, 2013 06:25
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Yeah, I've found it kind of demoralizing to build up a portal, just to have it taken down 30 mins later by the same guy who took done that same portal some 20 times now. I'd rather concentrate on portal creation, and portal discovery, rather than burning through my supplies valiantly defending a Light Rail station from The Resistance. I'm well on my way of getting at least one of every badge.
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Dec 21, 2013 08:43
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Apology accepted! It's all good, and you all are good people.
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Jan 1, 2014 22:51
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:The only real things you can do wrong in this game are pretty limited. I have the portal placement technique down pat. I like seeing the portals where people placed resonators while in a car, it ends up in this Fibonacci sequence of portals, spiraling out from the center of the resonator. Because they can't be botherd to actually get out, and walk around that subdivision park for two whole minutes. I should have taken a picture. It was soze, so pretty. Now I'm off to go submit more portals. Because, that's honestly the aspect in finding the most fun. Please accept that church art van, Google 
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Jan 2, 2014 17:27
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Many little fields also looks like someone's Trigonometry homework gone horribly wrong.
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Jan 2, 2014 20:22
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I like the ones who get into the game, call themselves 'agent' in their local G+ group, and spam it with their daily field takedowns. "I made some smurfs butthurt in Tukwila this afternoon!  " I also like German-themed public art next to a trailer park in rural Startup, Washington. Submitted as a portal, of course. This beats the Firewood Shop I found yesterday in Gold Bar, WA. Again, submitted. Washington State Best State. Qu Appelle fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Jan 4, 2014 09:08
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chemosh6969 posted:Going from L4 to L5 wasn't that bad for me. L5 to L6 is another story. It sounds like a decent strategy. I let a portal by me decay (a friend claimed and then abandoned it), and then let it sit unclaimed for a day or two. I figure that if the other faction was interested in it, they would have claimed it in that 48 hour period. They didn't, so now it's mine. I just became L7, and the most points I've been getting lately is in making links and fields, but also fully stocking a portal with resonators. Even if it's a crap portal that'll be taken down 2 seconds after you leave, if you fill it up with a bunch of junk L1s, you'll still get the full bonus for fully stocking a resonator. Those add up quickly, especially if there's a lot of misc portals with only 2 or 3 resos on them around you. I don't even bother with mods, unless they're one of my pet portals.
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Jan 7, 2014 20:37
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I discovered today that I can recharge a portal remotely, if I have the portal key for it. This makes guarding my little subdivisions portal all the much easier. (Yes, guarding is dumb, blah blah, but it's tucked away on a side street, and it's only been attacked and taken over once by the opposition. Then, I ignored it and let it decay before I took it over again. They haven't been back, as I don't think it's worth the effort to them. I've had it for 25 days now  Oh, and I saw the mega green field. I thought that my scanner malfunctioned at first.
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Jan 13, 2014 05:57
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Meanwhile, my subdivision portal is so ignored by everyone but me that I put a reminder in Google Calendar to keep it charged. 36 days and counting!
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Jan 23, 2014 23:04
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Portal acceptance/rejection emails are coming again! 2 portals accepted, 48 more to go (I've submitted a lot of portals)
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Feb 6, 2014 18:31
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nex posted:How long have you been waiting for the first portals to go through? I have been waiting 8 weeks for my first with no reply That's about the time frame. These are portals I submitted the second/third week of December.
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Feb 9, 2014 02:46
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And...11 more portal acceptances came through yesterday. Now I'm up to 15.
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Feb 9, 2014 03:23
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I fully admit that I do that when I have some L1 XM Bursters laying around. Not so much that they'll do any sort of damage at all, but so that opposition player gets that message "Your portal The Couch is under attack by X!" on their phone.
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Feb 14, 2014 05:30
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More Portal Submission emails are coming through, and I just got 5 more accepted. This brings up my total to 20 - and I haven't gotten emails on some of them yet. I'm also on a mission to try to include my coffee travel mug in every single portal submission photo - because it needs to immortalized in a video game. It's accompanied me on countless Ingress runs. Here, at Sky Valley Church of the Nazarene in Sultan, WA, it's on the square pole to the left of the sign. You can even see it, a little bit, on the portal pic for this same portal in Ingress. And if you want to visit this portal in person, it lives here: http://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=47.871421,-121.740171&z=18
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Feb 17, 2014 21:59
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So, something I've learned with the new portal submission process. If you submit a church or a related religious organization? It'll go thorough automatically. And quicker than other submissions. I've submitted both church and non church portals on the same day; the churches got accepted more than a week ago. The non church ones, I haven't heard back from yet. Also - has anyone been to any official Ingress Event? I'll be in CA during the week of the LA Recursion Event, I'm just wondering if it's worth it to go to.
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Feb 25, 2014 18:21
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So, the portal that I had owned for some 75 days now got neutralized today. Just neutralized, not taken over by the other side. About 4 hours later, I was able to reclaim it, and fully res and shield it up. This was before my portal 'count' time at 7 pm ( think). Does my portal owning count now start over? Or does it continue on? I hope so
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Mar 9, 2014 03:37
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Tremors posted:It starts over. People love targeting enemy guardian portals. Well, at least it was a good run, and I got two badges out of it.
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Exit Strategy posted:Could be worse. We had someone here with 149 days in their Guardian. A fellow Enlightened ADAd and popped it to be spiteful, and was promptly uninvited from the AM01-KILO-10 coordination G+. Yeah - while it sucks for it to go down, at least it wasn't timed like that, nor was it a player I recognized in the area. So, no vindictiveness at all, which is good. I think it's someone who just wandered through, saw the portal, and took it down. But they didn't even nab it for themselves, they left it uncaptured. So I captured it right back!
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Mar 9, 2014 05:00
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So, I took out one L7 portal. In doing that, I also took down 8 Control Fields. It was a good day. I'm also up to 41 portals accepted!
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Apr 25, 2014 07:22
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Lazy_Liberal posted:Charging bursters whaaaat? Looks like the tutorial left something else out. If you hold down the 'Fire' key, you'll notice that the circle of the queued missile gets smaller, and then cycles back. If you release it while it's getting smaller, you can get an attack bonus of up to 20%. 20% comes at the smallest, right before it cycles to large again. The higher the burster, the quicker the cycle, up to L8, where it's really hard to hit 20% attack bonus. If you practice with some L1 bursters, you can see the pattern and practice the bonus really well.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:05
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So, what are the AP amounts needed for the new levels?
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Ok, thanks all. At least the Recharger medals are easy for me to get; I recharge portals as a matter of course. Almost at silver. And I'd already have the silver Seer medal if Niantic approved portals that I submitted, that are legitimate and are allowed under the rules Until the new batch get processed, I'm stalled out at 46.
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May 9, 2014 17:48
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Also - what's the process for appealing rejected portals? I just got two bounced back that definitely meet the criteria, e.g. small, independent businesses, just today. Let's Go Espresso! of Gold Bar, WA deserves to be a portal. Edit: Nvm, I found it. You go to the G+ Ingress Portal Appeals Page. Qu Appelle fucked around with this message at 21:35 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 20:53
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chemosh6969 posted:When you use a power cube, a circle of energy spins and converges on you. If you tap yourself just as the animation finishes you get a huge bonus to the amount of energy to receive. This...is quite useful! Thank you!
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May 12, 2014 19:15
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zooted heh posted:are they ever planning on resetting portals? in my town this one guy ones the entire area and its impossible to take it by myself. do portals reset when the player stops playing or after a certain ammout of inactivity? also is there a way to relink portals? I didnt notice that you should probably try to make triangles. Yes, the portals decay, until eventually they turn white, and they're uncaptured again. He might be charging them remotely, if he has the keys for them. There's a guy who always makes a point of capturing my couch portal, and make it high level. I don't even bother taking it back, I just milk it for supplies until it's gone.
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May 12, 2014 19:33
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zooted heh posted:I enjoy this game but the town I work in is a beach city and all the portals are on one side of the only main street we have and its hard to make fields with your links. not to mention some of the portals are in gated communities where I cant get my car through. whoever made these stupid portals inside million dollar estates is a total jerk who doesnt even play the game anymore. You could probably get them submitted as invalid portals.
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May 12, 2014 22:35
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Is Ingress even sort of playable on EDGE/2G speeds? This is on T-Mobile, but also possibly Rogers in Canada. (I want to play on Point Roberts, WA, which gets service from both US and CAN service providers.) My US service is on T-Mobile, which has Unlimited International Data Roaming. However, I have no idea what speeds those are at. The clerk told me it was EDGE, but they may be incorrect. Qu Appelle fucked around with this message at 17:29 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 17:17
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Yes. YES. Point Roberts, WA is MINE! Hack ALL the portals!
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May 13, 2014 17:45
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GWBBQ posted:The submission queue is backlogged because a few hundred people who got banned for using Broot Mod banded together to poo poo up the game and pledged to submit 100 invalid portals a day per person. Niantic had to put together a whole team of people to go through the backlog of 750,000 bullshit submissions. I can live with that. As they say, patience is a virtue. I'm still submitting them as I find them! And I can't even imagine the time it takes to do that, unless they automate the process. Even if they submit the exact same thing over and over, it'd still take a chunk of time every day.
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May 16, 2014 02:51
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BurntCornMuffin posted:The locals here are saying that the power cube drop rate is up, so that should help against the decay virus. Oh, good - I've been hoarding those.
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Jul 12, 2014 02:32
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This might make me guarding my one Guardian portal a lot easier, as everyone else will be scrambling to keep up the farms. So they may not be motivated to hit a portal that you literally have to walk down a forest trail to reach. Same with my Capture count, as portals decay out faster than they can be maintained. I'm so close to Silver on that badge. The increased drop rate for cubes is also welcome. I've been like Scrooge with those things. Qu Appelle fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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I don't know if there's drama in Seattle or not. I just play solo, concentrating on finding new portals to submit, recharging low ones, and maintaining my Guardian. And staying out of COMM entirely.
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