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Re: Ingress in 2024
I don't think overclock is going to be used that way. I think it's simply to build other games. If I have to do a 2fa to interact with a portal then I'm done. Scanning isn't Ingress and neither is overclocking. Scanning portals does nothing for fields. And I thought that was the point of the game. Maybe it's not anymore and I'm disillusioned.
Re: No resolution
It happened again. I accidentally made a purchase using CMU on December 24 at 3:25 pm. I was deploying resonators and accidentally purchased 100 resonators for 9500 CMU. This was inadvertent. It looks like the button to purchase resonators is too close to the deploy button. I requested a refund of the CMU using in app help. “Terrence” says my request has been escalated to the team. Seems like the crickets team.
Re: Overclock Glyph is almost never highlighted, very difficult to see
I can confirm that rebooting Ingress before initiating the overclock, at least in my case, solved the issue.
After restarting Ingress the lines were properly highlighted, also regardless of the vertex angle.
Re: Ingress in 2024
@Grogyan I'm a software engineer with decades of experience. While I'm far from an expert I have some understanding of how CV works.
I'm not sure how confirming someone's location well after the fact is helpful. A while ago I threw a biggish field from a BGAN portal. While I was on my way back to civilization (i.e. somewhere with cell service) the spine of the field started getting attacked, but Niantic automatically detected the spoof and banned the account quickly so the spoofer only got two layers down before they were thwarted. If it takes hours to do the location verification then the damage will already be done.
As for urban vs. durable, the damage done by spoofers in the middle of a city is somewhat less impactful than the damage done to durable portals.
Re: Ingress in 2024
It stops 90% of players from playing as designed as no one has phones that can do what you want.
Re: [Change] Shift AP bonuses for portal resonator placements
i don't want to have to fully deployed every portals that's just more derplinks anchors.
Re: Ingress in 2024
yes, game has shifted from teamplay and tactics to scanning and overclocking which is just a solo thing do on your own ignore teammates.. meh...
Re: Ingress in 2024
If you want to stop spoofing using Scans and OC, I would like to know how you solve the following issues:
- Devices not capable of doing one or the other: are you going to restrict the game to only devices who can?
- Determining what is the "truth": Niantic's portal database is littered with bad data (misplaced, fake, removed,...), if you want to use this to verify a users location, you first need to know what you are using to verify against is correct.
Re: Ingress in 2024
Niantic is not going to waste time verifying location with portals because by default portals aren't always magically at the correct location. I have already scanned portals where to activate OC, you have to go away from their actual location to initiate them. Scanning only requires to be in the action radius of 40 meters while overclock requires 20 meters.
