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Are invites still a thing? I haven't played in a while but am starting back up, and I have ten apparently. When I last played there were three portals if I took the backroads to and from work. I could get seven if I made my 20 minute drive an hour. Now it seems on the same normal commute route there are 20 or so. There's also a lot more turnover between the teams. Previously it was blue dominated so all I could do was charge portals.
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There is a portal here that breaks the rules of being publicly accessible, but the process to get to it is great enough that I don't think anyone will report it. The portal is at the Clydesdale stalls at the Anheuser-Bush brewery, and the only way to legally get to it unless you're an employee is to take a brewery tour which is free and rewards you with beer and pretzels at the end.
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May 12, 2014 23:47
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GWBBQ posted:I completely agree that it's in the spirit of the game, but Niantic said you can't do it. I live in a town with a portal:player ratio of like 10. It's really funny reading this. When the other two players here saw I was playing they politely told me they'd stop recharging their portals less than L8 so I could level up. I can't even imagine running into another player. The closest was 10 minutes before me arriving at the post office, one of the other guys stopped in and deployed and linked it after an attack.
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May 28, 2014 01:38
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I carpooled in to Boston for an event and hacked portals along the way. The density is astounding. I also got a capsule, what should I do with it?
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Jun 3, 2014 16:19
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So, in the forum outage gap, I got up to level 6.333. With my capsules I now have entirely too many keys for some of the portals in my town, and I managed a 7k field yesterday (that's pretty good given our population density in NH).
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Jun 27, 2014 03:56
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FistEnergy posted:Tons of angry nerds. I'm 11 million deep and on the verge of burning out, so I don't care at all. The Resistance sucks in Cleveland so it's pretty boring. Convince Apple users to join you and become their leader.
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Jul 11, 2014 16:21
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It may just be temporary for their Helios event. Edit: I think portal decay should increase if a portal sits idle. I.e if someone gives it any charge, it will decay at the normal rate, but two days untouched and it accelerates.
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Jul 11, 2014 19:19
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WeX Majors posted:Oh god, a decay mod is so very much needed considering how useless the Link Amp is. Well, at least in US Metropolitan areas. I'm sure they're a lot more useful in say...Nebraska. Don't forget Siberia.
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Jul 11, 2014 20:26
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PerrineClostermann posted:Nebraska here. We never use them. Not even to load up on a portal and then Jarvis/Ada it?
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Jul 11, 2014 23:54
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Sounds like it finally hit the app store.
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Jul 14, 2014 03:10
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BurntCornMuffin posted:Are there any organized goon ingress groups? It'd be fun to draw giant green intercontinental dicks with fellow goons. Complete with blue balls?
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Jul 14, 2014 22:21
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Teddybear posted:I just joined the Enlightened in Boston (iOS), and it's kinda funny to see how super obsessed people get over this. I shouldn't be surprised though. I've heard the Boston Enlightened have people scraping data to find Resistance guardians. It sounds pretty lame.
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Jul 16, 2014 05:25
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They really should have implemented a way to help guide people to teams based on local pops. Even before the decay change, locally we lost more portals to decay than to attacks.
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Jul 16, 2014 18:02
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I'm at 65 days on my guardian and I had an attack notification on it. Luckily, it appears to have just been a drive-by one off and I recharged and all was right.
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Jul 17, 2014 02:52
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kitten smoothie posted:Did they actually submit the post office? When the game was originally opened in late 2012, they seeded the game board with every post office, public library, and firehouse in the US, so that even the tiniest bumpkin town had at least a couple portals. It was easy for them to do because at least the post office info is all a public record and could be easily imported. Don't forget hmdb.org for historical marker portals.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:08
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There is an Intel map: ingress.com/intel to see more. There is also IITC, a desktop/mobile version of the official Intel map which adds a lot of useful features, but technically could get you banned.
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Jul 17, 2014 20:31
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The only triangle that is unassailable is the triangle where each segment has the same slope, thus causing an overflow of MU for resistance.
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Jul 21, 2014 18:27
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I recharged my last 8500 AP to hit 8 tonight. My girlfriend wasn't feeling well so we cut the outing short and I worked my way to 8 and home recharger badge from my couch.
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Jul 29, 2014 04:57
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Guardian hunting is alive and well among New England Enlightened. Just had someone drive past many blue portals to come take mine out, and getting anywhere from the portal required driving past many more blue portals. I was at 83 days. In the past 83 days, it has only had one drive by attack.
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Jul 31, 2014 14:13
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Deceptive Thinker posted:Who are you? Carticket
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Jul 31, 2014 14:27
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Deceptive Thinker posted:Actually I probably should have asked who took it out Nymble
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Jul 31, 2014 14:32
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Deceptive Thinker posted:I'm not in the NH group so I can't know for sure - but based on stuff I've seen him post, you're probably right, though I still don't think people have any way of knowing what the day was other than the old google docs spreadsheets (or his own) that are probably still being updated So, do you think I'm safer taking a new portal? I think the last one I took before the Intel API change, but maybe not.
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Jul 31, 2014 14:44
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I have a work around: winter + foot access only.
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Jul 31, 2014 15:10
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Killer-of-Lawyers posted:That'll do it, but don't put too much stock in it. After all, we've all heard the helicopter story before. Pretend I haven't (I haven't).
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Jul 31, 2014 15:16
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Teddybear posted:Overnight resistance set up a field with points in New Hampshire, Vermont... and Bermuda.  I forgot about that with my guardian this morning. I got home from fielding a town about a half hour before this went up and put an end to local linking. It's funny looking at the comms and just seeing link notifications stop.
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Jul 31, 2014 18:31
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If your portal is under a field, i.e. southern NH, eastern MA, and all of RI last night, you cannot link to or from.
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Jul 31, 2014 18:36
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It's a useful tool and has a lot of plugins that I don't consider cheaty (draw tools, bookmarks). It does also have a lot of cheaty plugins, though. I mostly use it because the mobile Intel site is poo poo.
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Aug 3, 2014 17:35
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Powered Descent posted:It all comes down to organization, on both a local and a global level. These things are planned out in advance. Lots of people fly back and forth between continents, for business or vacation or whatever, and some of those play Ingress. So they arrange through their local faction to carry a supply of keys that would be useful for megafields, and deliver them to the faction organization at the remote site. (Or carry some home in the same way.) Keys rarely go directly site-to-site, and are often handed off relay-style to get where they need to go one way or another. I really can't imagine all the link clearing needed for the link that goes from Baja California up to Canada.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:17
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I drove an hour into the boonies (In NH this is really hard because you usually end up exiting the boonies by the time you go that far) to get to a portal that was anchor to about 8 layered fields. I accidentally went down some guys driveway and apparently blocked it while I took out the portal. He came home while I was doing this and we had a short awkward conversation about the game. Signal was okay but GPS lock was really hard to come by.
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Aug 9, 2014 04:31
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Beware: win trading is against the rules, so avoid behavior that may be perceived as such. I don't know how they police it, but it would suck to get banned because a frog showed up at a smurf meet and blew up some portals.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:32
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Deceptive Thinker posted:There was a long discussion in one of the hangouts I'm in as to what constitutes win trading. Oh, I think most of the actual not cheating stuff is great. We had a similar discussion recently, but really it just take a vindictive rear end in a top hat to report stuff.
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Aug 14, 2014 22:28
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At least the field is the right color!
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Aug 23, 2014 13:22
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kitten smoothie posted:If you're looking for lovely portal candidates, remember that there's a Ray Kroc memorial plaque at every McDonalds. There's a local Wendy's that somehow was accepted. No plaque, no art, just a fast food joint.
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Sep 15, 2014 23:01
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A player in a vastly outnumbered area will likely dirty hack for great to destroy farms rather than build their own. You'll probably get enough XM in a dense area to not worry about the portal defenses.
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Oct 26, 2014 21:45
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I wish I had run ingress while I was walking DC more. I clocked 40 miles of walking on my pedometer which would have put me in gold trekker territory from where I am now.
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Dec 16, 2014 14:30
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grilldos posted:How does stopping an auto-counter help that though? Removes the incentive to submit dumb portals that are clogging the queue.
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Dec 17, 2014 02:57
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18 days as a promising guardian gives me some perspective. I've had two hunted at 80+ days. I captured 100 portals over my time in DC (5 days), and I currently hold only one and it may actually be here somewhere in New Hampshire.
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Dec 17, 2014 06:14
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I will I had a screen shot of it but it was "Pile of rocks" that was someone's back yard. I submitted a pile of rocks on public property and it wasn't approved. There's someone in town that placed and maintains a bunch of cairns on the side the road on places with no connection that I know of. It's actually kind of neat and most people probably wouldn't notice. I figured it was worth a try. Also, I got my seer bronze badge with another 10 or so portals outstanding and at least one I need to appeal.
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Mar 25, 2015 03:32
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27 responses, average wait time of 196 days. The bulk of my outstanding submissions are from August.
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We got one of those locally yesterday. Something was going on with the servers.
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