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Re: Another ENL anomaly reward
@GreenVam you should give this a try. I uninstalled a couple of weeks and it's been so liberating. I'm able to go to work without pulling over and farming gear. I'm able to work at my desk without a random stream of notifications. My drive home is just music so I can decompress and then when I get home, I can like, stay there and not have to run across town to rethrow a field or again, be randomly interrupted by attack notifications that often times, are either too late to defend or lag is so bad you cant defend anyways. But you've already been interrupted, so it doesn't really matter what happens.
Nothing to lose and everything to gain.
MACHINA ruined my game
I mean, ****...? Even if I had a car, this would take all of my gaming time for one day and I would spend 100% of that time clearing this sh.. up, creating zero links or fields. This is not fun.
I gave up playing Ingress some time ago, I can't play in this. No matter how I try. It just keeps coming back and I would have to spend all my time just removing red links.
Glad for those of you who can, but... 🤷🏼♀️
Our city is 360.000+ inhabitants, but there are lots of areas like this. It blocks so much here. I honestly don't know what to do. Why is MACHINA a good thing in some's view? And why can't many recognize these maps as a problem? Honestly don't understand this, so honestly asking.
This was made 100% for the whales in Ingress (sorry...). There is no way more casual players can "survive" in this.
Re: You are losing control over the red link part 2
Changes are not always positive, does it benefit niantic if human players will be less and less because an agressive AI pushed them out ?
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
Those are not large by Australian standards. Large here is 100km plus.
Plus we have dead areas with no players. In those, Machina has just completely taken over. We make occasional attacks for badge but the fuel use is too high. No way we clould clear it out with current numbers.
This is a tiny snapshot showing street scale. Its constant, drive a block, get out of car, walk, go back, drive rinse and repeat. The experience is awful.
Plus it takes 4-8 X8 to **** and maybe you get 1 back, which you have to walk for if its out of range.
Killing it does not help your faction, it just soaks equipment actually benefitting the opposition.
The opposition seem to delight in it taking over.
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
I made a ton of xp today just by sitting in the bus to work, thanks red!
Re: Idea for Better Machina Mechanic
agree. Let people get destroys and kit and let people who like to field play also. Currently this content only serves one side of the community. I've noticed a huge lul in activity since machina came back, and it's the middle of summer.
Re: 4 years of the forums, what do you think of them?
If niantic had just one person on the ingress team who would consistently interact and respond to questions, these forums would be 1000% better.


