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Re: ASK way to battle Machina on nearly unaccessible portals
Destroying machina portals (and ONLY machina portals) with the drone is honestly a quite interesting idea. The fact that you can move it once per hour, and it would be automatically returned after the destroy (since the portal would turn from red to white), would make this mechanic not too overpowered. In order to address the problem in maximum travelling distance per jump, it could be set so that a drone jump could be extended to 5 km exclusively when jumping along a machina link.
I would also grant no AP and no stat increase for this action.
Re: What should niantic do to make ingress a "forever" game
They could start playing their own game, see how it feels like.
Re: What should niantic do to make ingress a "forever" game
You don't need to apologize to them for asking them to be better.
They should be apologizing to us for abandoning the community.
Re: The End of Level 8 Week is Here, How did we all do?
Recursed on the first day of the event, and got back to Level 16 on the last day of the event using a 40 link, 76 field AP engine.
Re: What should niantic do to make ingress a "forever" game
Engage with their own community to start.
Re: Experimental weapon tuning ?
Niantic's communication with their own community being brilliant, as always.
Old School badges completion, double onyx to finish
Shortly after I started playing ingress 8 years ago, I became aware of people discussing the attainability of reaching the onyx badge on all the medals that existed then. Seer had already gone out of the window and many were struggling against nefarious activities preventing the achievement of the guardian badge. Those difficulties aside, in theory nothing could prevent an agent, eventually, reaching onyx on the rest, in agent stats order:
Explorer
Builder
Connector
Mind-controller
Illuminator
Recharger
Liberator
Pioneer
Engineer
Hacker
Translator
Sojourner
Purifier
Trekker
Specops
(Guardian)
These have become known as the “old school” badges- we won’t mention the recent new badges for scanning pavements or voting for stuff from your laptop etc! Some might even argue for a shorter list, excluding translator and sojourner for example.
Well, whatever the list should be, that became my tick list.
As my stats steadily progressed the threshold for some of the easier ones quickly came and went but others still stayed firmly in the “miles away” category on the agent stats prediction.
Time and continuous playing moved them on and slowly but surely the more difficult badges started to look achievable. Just to add a little spice in the mix, my crazy brain in some idle moment of madness came up with the idea of doing two onyx badgers at once, at the same portal……
So it was, that in August 2020 I found myself at a nature reserve hitting double onyx pioneer and explorer on the same portal. Lovely!
However, some kind soul immediately pointed out that my builder/liberator ratios were about on track to do it again….
Roll on to October 2020 and those two onyx were achieved at the same portal at my local sculpture trail.
That left purifier and connector, which still looked a fair way off- time to focus and grind out those stats!
Love it or hate it, the red stuff, machina, then appeared on the scene. Yet another example of ingress easy mode but it did accelerate the scoring of purifier points and the connector stat in the form of oodles of keys falling to the floor at the merest hint of a burster anywhere near them.
And so the day approached, aided by a few trips to the blue haven of Sheffield and the pervasive red stuff.
Now the problem was how flimsy those red resonators are- could I **** exactly the right number of resos to hit 300k precisely without some far flung red R1 deciding to give up the ghost…..
My faithful ingress companion Ruby accompanied me to the local sculpture park again, here the remaining 17 links and 64 resonator kills were (luckily) successfully completed.
Ta-da!! All old school badges now onyx.
Thank you to @grid58 for introducing me to this game (at a preserved railway of course!), to Niantic for providing this multi faceted game that can keep people’s interest on many multiples of levels, to the frogs of Derby, Nottingham and Birmingham and the wider anomaly team mates for making the social side so enjoyable and to the NW xfac FS for keeping me sane through lock down and beyond.
There’s always a postscript to these write ups, and this one has to be that I haven’t quite done it properly yet….. When the purifier stat is exactly 300k excluding the current 25,577 machina purifier, and I’ve done probably another ~2,000 links, then I’ve done the old school onyx properly!
The first double onyx:
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12002/pioneer-and-explorer-double-onyx
Re: Core Subscription price increase
some countries will have 80% increase or more its crazy
Re: C.O.R.E. Subscription Price Change [Discussion]
Looks like I'll be living without core then. I'm not paying 10€ a month for loads of red trash in front of my door.
Re: C.O.R.E. Subscription Price Change [Discussion]
7,99 usd currently converts to 7,25 euro, yet google asks me to agree to 9.99 euro to continue the subscription. Why do these prices vary so wildly and most of all seemingly arbitrarily between currencies? What is the basis for this absurd conversion? Because it is obviously not based on any real exchange rate.
This increase is an 82 percent (!!!) price hike from to the 5,49 eur i'm currently paying.
Niantic are flying too close on the sun with this one and there's a reasonable chance I won't be continuing CORE.
I know there's some extra CMU in return but that's just whatever, I want to buy CMU on an as-needed basis. I only buy frackers.
Maybe, when they stop just generating those with Midjourney or whatever AI they use, i'll buy the occasional character medal again and the math changes, but right now it doesn't work out.
With CORE i just care about the inventory space, and supporting this game. But obviously this has limits when it starts to cost more then the majority of streaming services.
Especially when I feel like as a European we are beeing shafted additionally on top of an already fairly hefty price increase.


