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Re: This is NOT a healthy game to play.
because he's a troll. level 4 is roughly few hours of playing.
there's no way a real new player would cry about transportation cost or harassment.
just another fake troll account
Machina : Suggestion or idea
The new machina medal is good, but your infection rate should be higher or the score for destroying machina should be different.
Because reaching 40,000 in some places is only 10 years from now hehehe.😅
A cool idea would be for the agents themselves to infect other portals in the capture, an example of this is to destroy the portals of the machina and the items collected from it would be contaminated, when implanted in another portal the infection would start in 10 minutes or in a certain time.
With that, he would have a much bigger machina infection and a better chance of getting the medal.
Re: A Machina Report – Introducing the new "Reclaimer” Medal [Discussion]
great another locked badge in scanner⚡
Re: Multi Account cheating, will Niantic ever act on this?
As you’ve mentioned a player by name, you can expect NianticVK to close this lively discussion at some point soon.
However, on multi accounting, I think it’s viewed very differently across Niantic.
The Pokémon GO community manager has noted that they hate cheating.
Then from the same team:
In another now-deleted Tweet, Niantic posted a promo video which showed PoGO trainers multi-accounting.
Though it’s clear in the TOS that it’s a no;
I guess Niantic are encouraged to look the other way if it is bringing money in.
Re: How far can your drone go, reliably?
It's likely to be more complicated than a precise distance. If you watch the scanner as you move around, you don't see a single portal come into view, you typically get a group come at once - and that is because the circle around you has shifted and an extra S2 cell is needed to completely cover your viewing circle.
The maximum distance you can jump will vary depending on where you are in the world (and the precise shape/size of S2 cells) and also where (centre/edges/corner of its S2 cell) the drone is located.
I believe you can rely on being able to jump 500m, anything further is a bonus from the S2 cells.
Re: A Machina Report – Introducing the new "Reclaimer” Medal [Discussion]
Third test, waited over 24 hours and captured a portal. I got the medal tick. I suppose next up is a new cycle, right? I’ll smash one tomorrow and leave that and also smash one closer to the cycle ending and try both.
Re: A Machina Report – Introducing the new "Reclaimer” Medal [Discussion]
1 year for an onyx is fast in general. My concern isn’t 1 year, it’s that it could plausibly take active, 20 to 40 million MU/year, players 5 to 10 years to get gold unless local agents stop playing ingress to allow the game to become a giant nest of Machina.
I neutralized 70 Machina in 6 months, because I fielded effectively to keep them away. I would have ventured out further if I had a badge incentive and taken out more but 100/month could be hard to keep up if other active agents are also trying to get a gold+ badge.
So to get the badge in a reasonable time frame, which I consider within 1 year for gold and 5 to 10 years for onyx, I will need to stop fielding locally. Or Machina will have to be super aggressive.
Re: This is NOT a healthy game to play.
How much have you actually played the game? Looks like you've barely played the game at all. But your account appears to of been around for a while.
Until you actually level up to 8 it can feel like you aren't getting much done because your stuff will get hit and wiped out quickly. If you are able to find other agents locally I'm sure you might have a different experience.
Or maybe you just need a good tutorial to start the game with. Like https://sites.google.com/view/smurfling-guide/home
**Edit Looking at the stats a bit more, other than hidden, all of the badges you have, aren't things that will gain you AP that you need to level up. Almost looks like a backpack account in some ways, or a PoGo player, who tried Ingress, and didn't like it, because it was too complex/hard to understand. Capture portal, hack portal, make triangles, make new friends, get some exercise, enjoy!
Re: A Machina Report – Introducing the new "Reclaimer” Medal [Discussion]
An unforeseen and undesirable meta for this badge is that players are encouraged to not capture portals so that machina can grow. This seems like the wrong incentive here. Encouraging a lack of gameplay is fundamentally antithetical to a healthy game.
Re: A Machina Report – Introducing the new "Reclaimer” Medal [Discussion]
As an Agent who just completed 300K portal captures and is now ranked 5th worldwide for the Liberator badge, even the updated 40K is way too high for Onyx. A more reasonable Onyx rating would be way down at 10k.
NIA also needs to apply it retroactively, they definitely have the stats to do so. I'd be at 1750 captures given my pre-existing Machina stats.


