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Re: Chronos - Impressions from Day 1
I'm surprised they don't allow you to login through your Niantic account, a HUGE oversight especially if you're designing apps.
I could give a **** less about developer when that's the only way to view the status of VPS enabled portals.
Re: Chronos - Impressions from Day 1
Nothing has made me want to rage quit Ingress in a long time!
So frustrating!
There are only OC portals available because I did a bunch of scans in the summer before Niantic broke scanning. Many portals were rejected for unknown reasons. 21 OC portals in 4 distinct areas in my neighborhood. No others in the entire province. Because scanning is broken cannot fix or add more. My biggest concentration of OC is 11 of 16 possible portals in a park that is not maintained in the winter. Need to break trails in the snow to get to the portals.
Spend several hours trying my best. It is winter and there is snow on the ground so 90% of the portals are covered with huge canvas bags or there signs removed to protect them. Was not possible to achieve calibration on any of these. I assume if scanning was possible it would just mess things up for the summer. It would not create two possible scenarios where calibration would work. I don't think any of the portals are in their actual position. PoGo has moved them to enable stops. My GPS today was sluggish I had to constantly walk 10 meters past to be able to attempt a scan. No way to tell which portals I successfully got a calibration and burnt the portal out or one it failed and needed to do it 3 more times to get all the possible points. I had to give up trying to move around in the snow to figure out the glyphs were and stick to the trails that I already stopped down.
The Pop up message of asking to do a scan needs to be disabled! until Niantic reenables scanning on all phones.
Being restricted to daylight and good weather is going to greatly reduce the time possible to get this badge. Last night I tried three portals that failed even though they were illuminated brightly by a street lamp, but were successful to day in daylight. I got more points yesterday modding a bunch of portals driving around at night. Half way to first tier.
Re: Google Pixel 8 Pro - not in Niantic approved list for portal scans
this appears not to have been addressed yet, am i correct? funny there's an event going on that requires scanning and the flagship phone from Google isnt allowed to scan or overclock...
Re: [Discussion] Operation Chronos
remember when ingress medals were tied to gameplay, not scanning?
you can shove your overclock medal
Re: [Discussion] Operation Chronos
I can't participate in this one, my device doesn't support it. But that's ok. It's not something that I am even interested in. Scanning portals feels like a job. Not an event.
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Re: Chronos - Impressions from Day 1
RE Scan Quality.
I wish NIA had been a bit more forthcoming about why they wanted, high-quality scans.
Lots of people have been very sceptical over the last couple of years, and basically refused to take part with high-quality scanning, because they just assumed that Niantic wanted to monetise the database, which is true, but these people did not have enough foresight to think about the game that they play themselves.
Now, it is coming back to bite them, because those 500 scans they did of their feet in their living room, are not suitable for Overclocked enabled POI, so they’re gonna have to start all over again with real scans.
I’m glad that quite a few of us in the north east of Scotland have been appropriately scanning, and now we actually have lots to choose from.
Re: Chronos - Impressions from Day 1
The artwork isn’t particularly special. It looks like something you will see in an FS media, just a generic blend of green and blue. A stack isn’t really going to make me think of this event, unlike the characters from the Nemesis series: (Aurora, Didact, Optima etc.)
I like the artwork even if it is a bit simple. The silver tier reminds me of the Tessellation Paragon medal. I would still like to see the missing Nemesis global challenge medal (Lucida and Optima were teased with Didact challenge announcement and Optima was eventually held).
The actual process of making a portal eligible for overclocking is extremely convoluted.
100% agree. I've been looking at my own city's portals and submitting them for VPS evaluation but it's definitely not something we as players should have to do. I also find myself looking at the resulting meshes to find out how to calibrate the hacks.
Only a few portals being overclock ready (21 in my city) is somewhat nice, it reminds me of the time I started playing. There were way fewer portals and each of them felt more special. I'm getting the same feeling with this challenge, I need to go out of my way to these special portals.
Pokémon GO players are not scanning to build the network, they are doing it, begrudgingly for free premium items. As Ingress does not have incentives like that, only badges. Most Ingress players are scanning because they want to scan, and the quality seems to be better.
The medals are a somewhat effective incentive plus you get 500 AP for each one you upload. During Eos, I popped an Apex and started uploading for nice AP boost.
One thing Niantic has taken on board is the timing. It is much better and actually gives agents enough time to recite the pattern.
I personally think there should still be a bit more time to draw the glyphs or there should be a practise mode with no time limit. It can be intimidating to find out what the glyphs can even look like for some time when starting.
All in all, I agree with a lot of what you wrote. My biggest wish would have been that the first global challenge of the year wasn't in the coldest time of the year. Either way, I will be aiming for the silver.
Re: [Discussion] Operation Chronos
Use my comment as a "Welp, can't do portal scans so stuck with 5000 captures/mod deploys in the busiest month of the Year" - button.
(Sad times)
