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cheese-cube posted:Whatever happened to that deal that Niantic supposedly made with Motorola wherein people who bought their new handset would get some special unique item (A super-XMP burster or something)? An Ultra Strike is basically a focused XMP. It's only really useful if you are standing right on top a resonator when you set it off. I guess one reason to use it would be if you're in an area dense with portals and you want to surgically take out high level resonators first, before you go firing off XMPs and having all of the portals zap you back at once. In any case though it's not super useful all the time and I don't think it changes gameplay in any sort of material way.
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cheese-cube posted:Whatever happened to that deal that Niantic supposedly made with Motorola wherein people who bought their new handset would get some special unique item (A super-XMP burster or something)? They got a stock of special bursters on first sign in. Has very little splash damage but a much higher damage output.
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Well that was intense, the Jarvis Shard from NYC was evacuated to a portal in Westport CT overnight since it had been someone's Guardian portal and a lot of people had keys to keep it recharged so they knew they could keep it recharged. The plan was to transfer it to a portal at Avery Point in an area with heavy Resistance presence as an intermediate stop on the way to Bermuda, but Enlightened managed to take down the link every time, once with only 4 seconds to spare. People started clearing links at 9:30 with the hope that it could be transferred at 10AM At about 4:30, Resistance on Long Island came together to clear blocking links, we made the link straight to Bermuda, and one of our agents took out the portal they were going to make a blocking link from and slowed them down. Traffic was heavy and I actually manned the crosswalk button to give an all-walk signal and delay traffic as they drove to the shard portal. The clock hit 5 and the shard transferred after 8 attempts with several of our people having gone 33 hours without sleep since they had initially driven from Eastern CT to NJ last night due to lack of reinforcements down there. If anyone sends a shard to CT again, the enlightened can loving have it. kitten smoothie posted:It was really more a deal Google made with Google, but in any case, if you have one of the new Droid phones you are able to get "Ultra Strikes" from hacks. Anyone can use them, if you pick one up that was dropped.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:02
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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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Qu Appelle posted:Huh.
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GWBBQ posted:The accept/reject process is a crap shoot. Every time they're rejected, submit them again with increasingly stupid cringeworthy "creative" names and eventually the person who goes through them will laugh and accept them. There is a portal about 4 blocks from me named "Ostentatious Bike Rack." Yes we fight over a strategically important bike rack.
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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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Would love to play this but my tablet lacks GPS capability :<
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ShadowMoo posted:Would love to play this but my tablet lacks GPS capability :< If you have another phone with gps (like an iphone) you can tether and use it that way
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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. I submitted a permanent public art installation yesterday because I was taking the guidelines seriously. If it's that easy I might as well start submitting weird crap just to see what sticks.
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Well to be fair, it WAS pretty ostentatious.  Overall they're pretty open on submission guidelines. If there's a church with no portal, submit that puppy, I have never had a church turned down ever. If there's a historic trail or a park with those informative signs on it? Each sign can submit as a portal. If you're at a college campus, anything with a plaque is fair game. It just takes 30+ days to get anything sorted through most of the time. They're weirdly specific about what's acceptable as a park submission, turns out it MUST be the sign that says the park's name and not a photo of the playground.
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EscortMission posted:They're weirdly specific about what's acceptable as a park submission, turns out it MUST be the sign that says the park's name and not a photo of the playground. Avoid playgrounds. People hanging around playgrounds is disruptive and creepy. Ingress should be kept away from anywhere intended for people under 18 - schools, playgrounds, youth centers, etc. The game is built around routinely stopping by, standing around, and otherwise doing things that are not OK in that type of places. Think about that when you submit portals and report/request changes if there's a park portal right next to a playground or something - the game shouldn't disrupt reasonable people who are not involved.
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The submission guidelines are a bit odd sometimes... There's a park around the corner from my house (with a baseball field and a playground) that has a crappy sign, I've tried various pictures of the playground, the sign, the baseball field itself - nothing works. As soon as I get a rejection I submit another picture. It's an official town park, and it's labeled on google maps. Meanwhile the other "park" that's next to it is private property that was made into a "public" park by the owner of the land, but since the sign is a lot prettier and it's dedicated in memorial of someone, it got accepted after the first try
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Nov 11, 2013 05:23
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Deceptive Thinker posted:The submission guidelines are a bit odd sometimes... Yeah there's two or three pieces of gorgeous art in the area. ...That are in the airport. I'm not paying for a plane ticket to capture a clock for the Resistance, regardless of how cool it is.
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Someone in my area submitted the wood and metal art inside a Chipotle. It was accepted. Whoever approves these things has a sense of humor. There was also a bit of drama surrounding a player taking a picture of a desk ornament cannon they had placed outside their house and labeling it "memorial cannon".
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P_T_S posted:Someone in my area submitted the wood and metal art inside a Chipotle. It was accepted. Whoever approves these things has a sense of humor. The first one is kind of funny at least, and at least vaguely in the spirit of the game.
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Portal submission appears to be entirely based on whether the reviewer has the drinking bird toy pecking at "Y" or "N" that day.
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So I just started yesterday and joined Resistance since it seems Enlightenment practically owns everything here. Should I just continue hacking every portal I see? Also I've submitted a lot of churches and fountains and stuff but seeing as I'm only level 2, what would be the best way to keep them on my side?
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Hack every portal you can find, if its aligned to the enemy faction you get 100 AP every hack which adds up real fast. Unfortunately, defense is kind of a sucker's game because the mechanics are just so stacked in the attacker's favor. Nab any portal that happens to decay, and try to form as many links/fields as you can because that's where the real AP is at. If you DO happen to find a level 1 or 2 portal, make sure your XMP spread is hitting the resonators, not the portal itself. Anything past 3 or 4 is basically throwing away XMPs, unfortunately.
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Running into a bit of a shortage of lower-level resonators as I climb the levels. Guess I need to start attacking portals before I totally upgrade them.
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After 8x and 8r, the items I get most excited about getting are 4r. As an 8 you run out of those constantly. The other end of the spectrum is 7r, which will end up hogging half of your item cap if you don't watch it.
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FistEnergy posted:After 8x and 8r, the items I get most excited about getting are 4r. As an 8 you run out of those constantly. I have reached the point where I figure gently caress getting 4s. I only stock R7 and R8, dump one of each on a portal and let some other person get the fill-and-link AP. I'm primarily a unit organizer and breaker of things blue.
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Exit Strategy posted:I have reached the point where I figure gently caress getting 4s. I only stock R7 and R8, dump one of each on a portal and let some other person get the fill-and-link AP. I'm primarily a unit organizer and breaker of things blue. I figure that's where I'll be once I'm 8 but it's slowing my progress towards that unfortunately
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I avoid the massive surplus of 5r+7r by dropping those on portals that I pass while driving/on the train. Saturday, we moved a portal shard to Bermuda. Monday, I ran out of resonators other than L7. Managed to earn 130k AP that day. Tuesday, I ran out of bursters. I need to head up towards the resistance strongholds and farm some more items.
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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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Exit Strategy posted:I have reached the point where I figure gently caress getting 4s. I only stock R7 and R8, dump one of each on a portal and let some other person get the fill-and-link AP. I'm primarily a unit organizer and breaker of things blue. So when I see a portal with one R8 or one each of R8 & R7, should I assume that someone's doing the same thing? AP ceases to mean anything once you get to level 8, correct? I've been filling those portals with resonators and linking the poo poo out of them but I've felt like I'm doing something wrong to someone else's work. Have they ever discussed raising the level cap?
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STFU Pumpkinhead posted:So when I see a portal with one R8 or one each of R8 & R7, should I assume that someone's doing the same thing? AP ceases to mean anything once you get to level 8, correct? I've been filling those portals with resonators and linking the poo poo out of them but I've felt like I'm doing something wrong to someone else's work. As long as you're standing 40m away from the portal when you deploy resonators you're fine.
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STFU Pumpkinhead posted:So when I see a portal with one R8 or one each of R8 & R7, should I assume that someone's doing the same thing? AP ceases to mean anything once you get to level 8, correct? I've been filling those portals with resonators and linking the poo poo out of them but I've felt like I'm doing something wrong to someone else's work. It was talked about in the community I think but they seem to have said it's not going to happen. Would kinda break up the whole thematic importance of '8' they seem to be going with. What might be nice would be the ability to sacrifice one level of item for another, just to deal with the issues of getting lower levels. But it might be that way to promote people working with lower level players.
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Samurai Quack posted:But it might be that way to promote people working with lower level players. As an 8 managing an area where the highest player other than myself is a (recent) 7, this is why they do this. It's so you go along and mentor newer players, or provide a boost to people in the middle. Supply runs, being a giant wrecking bar for the lower-level player, etc. The game is structured so that it's tough at the bottom and tough at the top, but in the middle it's so tough you could make armor plate out of it.
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Increasing the level cap would put way too much power in the hands of people who have been AP farming for a year What I think is more likely to happen is some sort of alternate advancement system that all players have a fair try at. Something that awards some sort of unique ability like unlocking a special item type (akin to ultrastrikes) or allowing multiple mod deployments or linking without using keys - achieved by performing some task Then again those are my hopes: I have 4 million ap and a black defender badge and feel like badges and huge inventories aren't "enough" at level 8 Edit: another good special ability would be a larger inventory
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Deceptive Thinker posted:Increasing the level cap would put way too much power in the hands of people who have been AP farming for a year You know what would be a great ability? An auto-recharge option. like, you get attacked, but you don't need to be ready to go with recharging it just refills from your XM. Probably have the ability to set a minimum amount not to use so you don't suddenly find yourself drained without meaning to be, but gently caress that would be a nice option.
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Is there any effective configuration for a L5 portal that won't get immediately stomped by a level 8 player? L8s seem to be gods that can roam and destroy with impunity.
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STFU Pumpkinhead posted:Is there any effective configuration for a L5 portal that won't get immediately stomped by a level 8 player? L8s seem to be gods that can roam and destroy with impunity. Nah, X8s are like bunker busters. There isn't really anything practical you can do to stop an L8 with xmps to spare from nuking your portals. Just gotta hope they aren't willing to waste their thunderbolts on your small holdings. Thankfully X8s are actually kinda hard to get a lot of. Unfortunately for everyone L6 and lower, X7s are not.
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STFU Pumpkinhead posted:Is there any effective configuration for a L5 portal that won't get immediately stomped by a level 8 player? L8s seem to be gods that can roam and destroy with impunity. Don't you pretty much have to be a 7 or 8 player to make a 5 by yourself? Seems fair that if one 8 could build it then one 8 could knock it down. Meanwhile it is annoying that it takes 8 people to make one L8 portal but one L8 player can come through and tear it down pretty easily.
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On the same coin it takes 8 L8's to gear themselves. This results in flash farming which can be a blast. Get 7 other L8 buddies, hit up a portal cluster and deploy/farm/burnout as fast as you can before an enemy sees what you're up to and blows the whistle. At that point you'll have a nice game of cat and mouse or and big battle. Winner calls the gear quantity bluff. As a long time L8 player I can say I couldn't give a poo poo about some dude's L5 portal. Waste of gear and time considering the new defensive percentages built into links. Want your sub L8 portal to last? Get some VRs on it and link the poo poo out of it to make it a gear sink to take down. There's no way they'll raise the level cap at this point. There's more than a few people in pur local crew with over 10 million AP. At this point we play for the social aspect and the large scale projects. There's nothing better than using a few groups to coordinate multiple overlapping fields simultaneously covering a city of millions and watching All COMM freak the gently caress out.
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It's pretty much impossible to defend portals. When we moved a shard, we had six L8 players recharging and redeploying R8s and we barely managed to keep the portal up against two attacking players who weren't too close to the portal. We still needed all six players redeploying as well as selectively recharging. L5-6 portals can be taken out by someone driving by, which sucks in a game that's supposed to encourage walking.
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Players with cars and time to spare totally dominate the game here. With the recent changes a drive by via commuting is harder to pull off, depending on the portal defense. You can't fire 20 bursters in 3 seconds anymore. 
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FrickenMoron posted:Players with cars and time to spare totally dominate the game here. With the recent changes a drive by via commuting is harder to pull off, depending on the portal defense. You can't fire 20 bursters in 3 seconds anymore. FrickenMoron posted:Players with cars and time to spare totally dominate the game here. With the recent changes a drive by via commuting is harder to pull off, depending on the portal defense. You can't fire 20 bursters in 3 seconds anymore.
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Holy crap! I've gotta try that.
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