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Km added without movement
I heard from others that their kcaps was finished to fast, and that they were gaining km without moving.
Took a screenshot of my stats. And after five minutes I also had gained 4 km without moving.
iOS 16.2
Iphone 14
5G
Ingress v. 2.123.2
Trekker running wild
It has been observed that walked distance is adding up wildly at the moment for many agents. It seems that ~2,3 km incrementations get added automagically every other minute if the scanner is open - no matter if agent is actually moving or not.
Re: Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
People should try to play in Norway with machina. Just outside Oslo and all cities in Norway, we have mountains and forests with no signal or very difficult to get to. getting to a portal can take several hours to drive and half a day to walk. I spent 12 hours every day for 3 days and drove 1400 km to clear machina so I could put up 70 fields that gave 1 mill MU in total. When the frogs took down one of the anchors, it only took a few hours before machina arrived with blockers in the forest and on the mountain. It would have taken me several days to clean that up again and 1400 km in a car. Even if you have active players in areas, it becomes almost impossible to clear machina because the portals are in the mountains or in the forest without a signal or too difficult to get to. In winter, you can simply forget to clean the Machina in Norway.
Re: Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
After the price hike was announced I canceled my Core subscription, which I had from the start.
Fielding is the most important and fun part of Ingress for me. I have organized several multilayer fields in the Netherlands of up to 1.5M MU per layer with groups of up to 150 agents. Preparation of such fields takes months, with hundreds of hours invested by the ops team and other agents in planning, recruiting, pre-clearing, key farming, key distribution etc. I'm sure many of you know the drill.
Lately there have been several changes to Ingress that I can only interpret as anti-fielding: Without MUFG capsules we cannot replicate keys anymore. Linking under fields, makes it easier to block. And most of all the cheating Machina faction makes large fields totally unfeasible in many areas. At one point Machina could link through existing links, which completely breaks one of the basic rules of gameplay, and even worse, some of the Machina links were invisible on the intel map. Not to mention the fact that Machine plays night and day, including areas where there isn't 24 hour access for real players.
It seems these changes are geared towards agents in low activity areas, who just want to walk around their neighborhood and destroy portals. In my view this reduces Ingress to a boring grind similar to games like Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom and the late Harry Poter WU. There is no way to outsmart Machina, or surprise them with a smart block link. And there is no satisfaction in knowing that another agent also had to go to that remote portal you just captured. Machina is relentless, soulles and clueless, and blocks what I would say is the central part of the gameplay.
For me Ingress has significantly lost its appeal and in the current state I am not paying for it anymore. I really hope Niantic will manage to turn the game around and make it the fun, vibrant and challenging ecosystem it was before.
By @Fortifer
[Fixed] Known Issue: Faction Selection after Recursion
Update 11/3: This should be resolved with the ING 1.128 release.
There is a known issue with selecting faction after Recursion and the team is working to resolve this as quickly as possible and recommends waiting to recurse until we are able to resolve it.
If you have already recursed and were unable to switch Factions, you can contact support for assistance. Faction switching as a result of this bug will not count towards the one-time faction change exception if done within 48 hours of recursion.
If you have not yet recursed and would still like to do so prior to the bug being fixed in hopes to switch Faction, so far, we have seen some success with the following steps:
- Hit level 16
- Restart the Scanner
- Recurse
- If no Faction choice after recurse, try restarting the Scanner again before doing any actions generate AP
These steps do not guarantee that faction choice will appear properly but they may in some instances. If it doesn't work, submit a ticket as noted above.
how to get notified on any message in a channel?
Is it possible right now to change the channel notification settings to get notified of all messages in a group channel? I only see the options
- Default
- Mentions only
- Nothing
Default seems to behave like mentions only.
Cancel Core until the Machina situation is handled
Machina is destroying the local community here, and I am sure a lot of other places. The situation is completely unreasonable, and makes it annoying to try to make fields in cities and next to impossible to cooperate with teammates to accomplish something bigger - which was a big part of the game to a lot of us, even if it wasn't important to everyone.
Niantic doesn't appear to listen or be interested at all in complaints in forum threads. Therefore, the best way that I can see to try to make something happen is to cancel our subscriptions. I love Ingress and have happily supported it since Core was introduced, and would have kept that subscription going forward, but I need to vote with my wallet, and I will stop paying money for the game until Machina is significantly reined in in a way that makes the game otherwise playable.
If you agree about Machina, I suggest you do too.
Re: Machina experiment has turned ingress into "Petrol vs Bots"
Machina is just a spoofer that cannot be banned.