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Broken ingress account
So, towards the end of the double AP event I requested assistance on getting an apex replaced because of a glitch pulling a second one out of my inventory and giving me the time for one. Fast forward to the issue "being resolved."
August 15th, I get a DM from a friend and asks if I deleted my account. I said no and went to log in. I see a message about my item being returned, then the app force closed. Put in the credentials in the sign I'm process, then a screen popped up about agreeing to the terms and conditions. I read them and agreed, clicked on, then an error screen. I uninstalled and reinstalled and the same pop ups happened. I reached out to a few other agents and they asked if my account was terminated, I said I didn't request it. So I put in as many things as I could to try and figure out what happened. Was I banned without notice? And for what? I don't spoof, don't bot, etc. Did Ingress terminate my account? If so, why? I was and had a core subscription active and nearing the next month's payment.
So, after all that and no immediate answer I waited. All things I had done: resos, mods, links all had been removed from the game, and wasn't able to be pinged. Me also knowing I was the only fighting to keep links up so Machina couldn't cross certain areas, knew everything was in serious and quick trouble.
The responses start coming in like, do you remember your name? Your sign in info? Etc. Yes. Can you reproduce this bug? Yes, every time. After those waves of responses over the first day or so, everything gets escalated to research/care teams, etc. So they can figure out what happened. Several more days go by with no answers, no successful log in, nothing. The day of my subscription renewal is here, no account to use. So I cancel. A couple more days of silence, I said whatever you've done is probably irreversible to fix at this point.
(8/26) I get an email saying my account is back up, and am excited to see if everything has been returned to what it was.
What I get (see attached images of gear and level). All resos and links not restored, my lockers emptied and gone, my capsules all missing including the items inside them, all my gear, my AP is in the negatives, my level is incorrect. Oh, but I now have 2000 bursters.... What did they do?
Update: a few days later my account gets "fixed" one empty key locker is added, a few caps and k caps are present, but also empty, I still have 2000 bursters, my level and AP have been fixed.
Still no answer as to what they did, still no full recovery of my account, still no restoration of resos, mods, and links before this happened. I feel like this isn't "fair" or "fun" experience violating their own model. I refuse to do anything in game until this is resolved, and also feel I should be compensated for this monumental **** up. Am I wrong?
Re: Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
I canceled it last month, might reconsider if pay2win dissapear.
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
Niantic has some work to do, any new player starting in such area where red dominates is just not gonna play for very long if alone in the area..
Re: Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
Machina sort of IS the problem since it is grabbing almost every portal it can and throwing links from it.
The relentless derp linking is a huge problem and combined with a substantial price hike of the Core subscription and you currently have a very unattractive combo.
Keep machina capping, but nerf or drop the linking.
STOP MACHINA, totally lost control (again)
Good morning,
I would like to ask NIA to apply strong scaling to MACHINA.
Today, the situation has not changed at all compared to the initial situation, when the MACHINA could cross the links, it slowly made its way around the links or passing at the very moment in which they were knocked down.
Dozens of techniques have been tried to try to control it but none have proved effective.
I personally don't even understand its existence: has Niantic invented a game where the aim is to make links and then invent an algorithm that blocks them as the only thing? It doesn't make any sense, rather given the possibility for individual players to "pollute" precise areas, currently even cleaning an area is just wasted time that after 24 hours MACHINA returns more perhaps than before.
then we have to add unreachable portals, forests, mountains, glaciers, islands, etc….all red
In short, today MACHINA controls more than 8 million portals, and many have now stopped playing because nothing can be done anymore, the intel is completely invaded by red.
The red portals have surpassed, in number, even the neutral ones, it is no longer possible to make links or fields, if not at a huge cost of time and petrol, and many people are quitting the game
Thank you
Re: Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
That new agent will be seeing L8 Machina portals that he can't destroy with his 20 L1 XMPs and hacking it will completely wipe his XM bar so he can't get enough decent gear to actually do anything.
Re: Why can't Niantic stop the spoofing?
A lot of people here on the forum would tell you that it's technically difficult to deal with spoofing. Huh.
I won't say whether it's correct or not. After all it's Ingress Forum run by Niantic. Take this as an example
Blatant spoofing like this, which can be confirmed easily, would be instantly banned permanently in 2020 with the help of Fast Track.
Yes. In 2020 spoofer would be banned directly by TR without 3-strike which is a common knowledge. But now? 30-day as it seems.
[2021-03-01 6:39:34 PM] deployed a Resonator on Stone Tiger Statue (Sungang East Motorway Interchange & Sungang East Road & Honghu West Road, Luohu, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 518000)
[2021-04-07 8:02:43 PM] destroyed a Resonator on 屏欣苑兒童遊樂場 (Tin Shui Wai Station, Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong)
A blatant spoofer who should have got permanent ban if reported in 2020, can begin his journey again easily in 2021.
See what? It's already hard for us normal players to make Niantic believe it's a spoofer. But even if confirmed, so what?
The problem does not lie in technical difficulties in stopping spoofing. It lies in somewhere else so it's OK to give up.
It's very obvious that since the beginning of 2021 something changed but some players on the forum keep ignoring it.
Either they don't know anything about and does not involve in current anti-spoofing situation, or they hide it on purpose.
#IFS GOUDA SEPTEMBER 2023 NETHERLANDS
Hello all,
Last Saturday FS GOUDA was there and the turnout was pleasantly busy and we also had the weather.
I want to thank all Enl / Res agents for this beautiful day that you were there to play a game together, drink beer and eat together.
I also want to thank my co-organizer and the banner maker for all the help.
So thank you everyone and see you next
Re: Is story over?
I don't remember being able to catch up with stories since before Prime released, and I believe most non-Native English speakers would say the same. Indeed they did new stories but those were isolated from player experience. They made the tesallation but it was half over by the time my language's community got the announcement, with translation for the rules but not the lores within.
Another problem is that new players have no way to figue out the previous storyline. The odd twitter & blog & community thing made the long-term storyline inaccesible. Like, when I looked up PAC's investigation website I knew some fragment about Hank Johnson reading the Necronomicon in Myscatonic's library, and something called Techtulhu, but with no cause or effect or any connection to other stories. The story lacks both accesibility to newcomers and it's own continuity. You tried to soft-reboot, but excactly how many players really have a sense of what they were doing to Carrie Campbell at Cassandra Prime? I know there's the Tesallation, right, but how can we access it now? And where was the expected community localization project?
Please Niantic, we need those youtube and twitter exclusive contents shown and explained in both announcements and the gameplay, timelines for newcomers sorted out (and localized for the best) (selling old badges won't help!), otherwise the efforts you put into stories and performers become nothing but embarrassment. Many of the players came for the erlier ARG and storyline, the idea of uniting to save humanity's future. Please don't let them down. (If the answer is no, just tell me what Techthulu is… Been wondering that for years.)
Dark XM infected portals in the field
Yes.
You read that correctly. "Red portals" have begun appearing in the scanner. These are portals which have been infected with dark XM.
If you attempt to hack these, they will drain your entire XM reserves.
They will spread if left alone.
Encourage you to neutralize any that you encounter.












