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        <title>Anomalies — Ingress</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>When can we expect the medals for 22 to 29 feb septicycle cell battle?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/22479/when-can-we-expect-the-medals-for-22-to-29-feb-septicycle-cell-battle</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Splend1dGamer</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Any idea on when the medals for this time periods cell battle participants willget the cryptic memories medal?</p>]]>
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        <title>We have gained another anomaly</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21970/we-have-gained-another-anomaly</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Millopai</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>But anyway..... Will there be any awards for the Illuminated this time? Any exclusive medals? Exclusive items? exclusive hacks? Increase in item drops?</p><p>Something to reward the winning faction?</p>]]>
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        <title>Charleston - GoRuck - Missing Badges</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21953/charleston-goruck-missing-badges</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>ABeerSlayer</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I will start off by saying that I participated in GoRuck Stealth and Urban at the Recent (Aug 19) Charleston, WV Anomaly. </p><p>Our team (Res) had a strong outpouring of agents for both Stealth, Urban, and OCF. Some agents have yet to receive badges for Stealth (one person), Urban, and OCF (most missing). </p><p>All (RES) agents had their QR codes scanned </p><p>It was made aware to NIA that we were missing all badges still about 2.5-3 weeks post Anomaly. NIA was able to retrieve some information for Stealth and Urban. While NIA needed to get in touch with GoRuck about OCF. This lead to the Stealth badges being pushed after about 3 weeks for <strong><em>most</em> </strong>agents (RES). The OCF took a little longer, NIA received some info from GoRuck and pushed those badges. But that information was incomplete. </p><p>The run around currently is that NIA points to GoRuck for the missing information while GoRuck simply will not respond. We were given a contact at GoRuck, and 24 hours later still no response. </p><p>My purpose of this post is to highlight the disconnect that can occur between two entities. Right now, there is no path forward for those agents who took it on themselves to participate in an event that they understood would get them an in game badge. There needs to be more communication about these events and what's expected of the participants from NIA. </p><p>Hopefully we can get this sorted out, but it's going to be a thorn in the side of those who participated and did not receive credit. </p><p>Cheers.</p><p>ABeerSlayer</p>]]>
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        <title>Wrong date for December Discoverie Anomaly in October - December 2023 Events Schedule: Discoverie</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21911/wrong-date-for-december-discoverie-anomaly-in-october-december-2023-events-schedule-discoverie</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>dw235</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>The October - December 2023 Events Schedule: Discoverie was just published: <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fingress.com%2Fnews%2F2023-q4-events%2F" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://ingress.com/news/2023-q4-events/</a></p><p>The date for the December Discoverie Anomaly is indicated as the 17th of December.</p><p>It was announced as the 16th on a previous news: <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fingress.com%2Fnews%2F2023-mzfpk%2F" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://ingress.com/news/2023-mzfpk/</a></p><p>Moreover, the 17th is a Sunday and the anomalies in October and November are set a Saturday.</p><p><a data-username="NianticOfficial" data-userid="19131" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticOfficial">@NianticOfficial</a></p>]]>
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        <title>Wouldn't it be wise to have a multilingual forum for a game of such quality?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21664/wouldnt-it-be-wise-to-have-a-multilingual-forum-for-a-game-of-such-quality</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>6Art6Chi6</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>In order to promote the game and facilitate understanding of the rules and gameplay, especially with the involvement of artificial intelligence, would it be possible to make the forum multilingual so that language barriers are no longer an obstacle? For example, I speak French and I am learning English, but I still struggle with it. Considering the high quality of the game, I suggested this as an improvement. SincerelY</p><p>To improve the game and enhance user experience, it would be beneficial to implement the following enhancements:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Multilingual Forum: Introduce a multilingual forum to overcome language barriers and allow players from different linguistic backgrounds to communicate and share their experiences.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Language Support: Provide language support within the game itself, allowing players to select their preferred language for in-game text and instructions.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Translation Tools: Incorporate translation tools or features within the game, enabling players to easily translate messages, chats, and other in-game content.</p><p><br /></p><p>By implementing these improvements, the game can become more inclusive and accessible to players worldwide, fostering a stronger and more diverse gaming community.</p><p>Language is a code that needs to be deciphered. Long live the green hack, the one of innovation and creation, the one of technology at the service of humanity.</p><p>, 6Art6Chi6.</p>]]>
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        <title>MZFPK Anomaly</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21232/mzfpk-anomaly</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>Grogyan</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>We're less than 24 hours away now from this global event. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yet there has been zero advertising of it this entire week. Nor any official mention of the event this past week </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a serious concern <a data-username="NianticThia" data-userid="47111" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticThia">@NianticThia</a></p>]]>
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        <title>Echo logo?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21281/echo-logo</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>tengN69</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>1 month into the upcoming Echo series. We got updated with this <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fingress.com%2Fnews%2F2023-q2-events%2F" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://ingress.com/news/2023-q2-events/</a> an hour ago. As part of the initial sites for Echo, we ask where is the <strong>logo</strong>? Anomaly marked swag and merch are some of what keeps Ingress going, yet on our side it's difficult since we most likely have to make <em>"RUSH" ($$$)</em> of the bulk orders of swags cause<strong> LOGO WHERE</strong> (<em>soon TM</em>). Previous anomaly I attended already in preparatory stage a month into the date, schedules were set, merch in production, down-payments made. inventory organizing, and so on. With already decreasing player base and yet no hype for events. yey <span>😊</span></p>]]>
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        <title>Mission days at all anomalies and secondary sites.</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21106/mission-days-at-all-anomalies-and-secondary-sites</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>PierreAnoid</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Can we ask that efforts be made to allow mission days on all the Sundays after each 2023 anomaly site both primary and secondary?</p>]]>
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        <title>Chicago Abaddon Prime - Most Memorable Moments</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/1392/chicago-abaddon-prime-most-memorable-moments</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>jplolo</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I'm really interested to hear what most stood out to everyone at this event.</p><p>For me, it being a Mega Anomaly and not in direct competition with other sites, helped lure people from multiple regions I'd been hoping to meet for years. This was a real treat. Just about checked everyone off of my list so I can finally retire in peace.</p><p>As for Moments... I love hearing the boom of the announcements crowd screaming "Re-Sis-Tance" in unison. At the time, I was surrounded by quiet, unhappy Enlightened agents so I didn't participate. But, the energy radiating from the other side of the room was incredible.</p><p>I also loved seeing Hank Prime so heavily into the video games at our after party.</p><p>I can't believe I got all our nerdy decoder boys to sing karaoke at The Seven Bar &amp; Restaurant. Every single one of them got up there to solo! Woop!</p><p>And of course, the last impromptu gathering at our Resistance hotel where I got to swap stories with <a data-username="chibri" data-userid="7150" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/chibri">@chibri</a> <a data-username="foxypants" data-userid="15237" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/foxypants">@foxypants</a> <a data-username="velotriraptor" data-userid="12603" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/velotriraptor">@velotriraptor</a> and a few others, over amazing beer before flying home. That was a relaxing way to avoid the scary weather that was taking a turn for the worse outside.</p><p>Oh, and I enjoyed that moment during Intel Ops when we had nothing left to do but sit and think. Think... think... what are we missing? That's when the fresh ideas started flowing and a clue came in. Within 2 minutes we heard the beep,beep,beep,beep, clank! of the hotel safe unlock and we all started screaming. It was a glorious feeling! Oh joy!</p><p>Just one more thing... it was funny waking up at random moments in my hotel room where strangers were fiddling or struggling with something. I'd move to help them, then pass back out, never for more than 4 hours, and never learning their names. According to <a data-username="AFoxinSox" data-userid="6254" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/AFoxinSox">@AFoxinSox</a> , I might be a ninja? Lol... *giggles. Never even got to meet anyone I bunked with that weekend. Too much to do!</p>]]>
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        <title>Anomaly planning, or complete lack thereof.</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20477/anomaly-planning-or-complete-lack-thereof</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>worldchicken</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Dear Brian Rose,</p><p><br /></p><p>I am writing out of a place of utter confusion. The anomaly in LA was announced 10 weeks ago via several official Ingress channels. We are now 10 days out of the event. Somehow, even though Ingress is your job (or so I assume), 10 weeks is not sufficient time to publish a full set of rules. 10 weeks is not sufficient time to publish the active playbox for the event. In 10 weeks, there is zero public information coming out about the event coming up in 10 days. We have been told "Chinatown." We have been told what day. I apologize, there has been one new piece of information that has been published in 10 weeks: the event will occur from 1 pm to 5 pm. After 10 years of this game, I should be able to expect better.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am assured that you have heard earsful about how "Chinatown" does not provide for a sufficient number of portals to host an anomaly. Expansion of the playbox around Chinatown posed a problem of your own creation with that announcement. For those not familiar with LA (which included myself prior to the announcement), Chinatown is bounded by Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles Historic Park, US 101, and everyone's favorite destination in LA: Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Within minutes of the announcement, many observers from home could see that this proposed play area might be problematic.  </p><p><br /></p><p>But that's fine. It's your game, your strategic direction, and I can tell you'll die on this hill before taking any feedback from experienced agents. By experienced, I do not mean how long Ingress has been installed on a device. Nor how many portal keys one has collected over the years. Nor how many posts one has made here on the Niantic community boards. I refer to hands-on experience at anomalies. Agents who've played the game head-to-head against an opponent. Serving as leadership in anomaly situations, whether this be leading a team on the ground, helping organize remotely as "eyes in the sky", or the thankless position of being the POC for the site or any of the even more thankless, invisible positions who help make all of the things happen. </p><p><br /></p><p>And we are back to the first paragraph: if this is in fact your job, the thing you get paid for, and you cannot decide on a rule set and playbox in 10 weeks, what is your expectation that these groups of volunteers can reasonably respond to these things in a matter of 10 days? Are you that utterly incompetent? Are these the trustworthy hands that will be carrying Ingress forward in a new direction? Do you intend to drive yourself out of a job? </p><p><br /></p><p>In-person events and anomalies in particular are the primary drivers (from Niantic) of player engagement. The way both Munich and LA have been handled from the official standpoint have been offputting for many agents. Long delays, unpopular mechanics (No, Brian. No one likes Battle Beacons.), minimal communication, blatantly ignoring advice and suggestions from POCs and Vanguards. From the financial side, the agents who are turning away from the game due to these poorly organized events would have been CORE subscribers. These would have been agents deploying frackers to help shore up gear for the events. From the community side, these would be the community leaders who historically been the drivers of agent recruitment and retention, which leads to more dollar signs for Niantic. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do not get me wrong nor taking this as whining that we don't have enough time. We will respond to the very delayed rules and playbox, and will do so successfully. But please take a moment to reflect. As someone in charge of this event, your performance is terrible. Sending a message on Twitter two weeks prior to event apologizing for delays in not only insufficient, it's acknowledgement of your incompetence. I will not speculate on the nature of the delay. However, I can reasonably place the entirety of the delay in publication of rules and playbox in your lap. I hope (and expect) that this anomaly will be a fun and successful event for all participants on ground despite your utter incompetence in planning.</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>One of the many thankless, mostly invisible agents who has helped make anomalies fun and successful for years.</p><p><a data-username="NianticBrian" data-userid="20895" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticBrian">@NianticBrian</a> <a data-username="ace" data-userid="18117" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/ace">@ace</a></p>]]>
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        <title>LA Anomaly Feedback</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20597/la-anomaly-feedback</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 01:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>ofer2</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Everyone,</p><p>I (and much of the Ingress Team) was at the LA anomaly. We have been to a few anomalies before, but I wanted to take some time to talk about this one. I was playing as a player (i.e. I didnt not tell my team that I am a Niantic and used nothing that a player wouldnt have access to in order to participate). Similarly, I am making this post as a player (meaning that I simply want to learn what the community thinks and any ideas / changes / comments will be read by me, but I can make no guarantee of any changes) With that being said, some of the things that I experienced include:</p><ol><li>Scanner freezing + crashes.</li><li>Server lag</li><li>The massive amount of non-niantic tools needed to participate including everything from verifying player team, to private communication, to watching whats happening.</li><li>Not being able to know what the score at any point was</li><li>Having there be a massive player imbalance between the teams.</li><li>Being "stuck" at a specific place for a while fighting over a beacon instead of being able to go see the whole play box</li></ol><p>The crashed I noticed during the anomaly sucked and I got some information about whats causing them (with some help from others as well) so I'll make tasks to improve that.</p><p>Server lag is something we're already working on, but what I saw was generally in line with what I saw in redacted lag.</p><p>As far as players pretending to be part of the other team: I wonder if there should be some larger punishment for being caught doing this. </p><p>As for the player imbalance: battle beacons hit that point really hard. The larger team will win. I wonder if the format should include things which are based off of percentage (e.g. what % of players visited every portal in the playbox) so that the number of people is irrelevant. What do you think?</p><p>Overall, I am curious about the format of the event. Battle beacons hit the inventory pretty hard which makes extended play harder. When we were originally designing battle beacons we wanted the reward for participating to be large, so we created the category system which would yield large hack outputs. I think that waiting for a player to hack is what makes using battle beacons in situations like anomalies feel bad. I wonder if, instead, we gave you just one huge pile of rewards when the beacon finished automatically if that would feel better and would let you keep going much better.</p><p>We've done a lot of very similar style events before, but I was wondering about what new formats you think may work better? I was curious: what if there were "phases" where there was high intensity (e.g. battle beacon or shard play) followed by a "recovery" phase where players were able to a. go to the bathroom b. farm gear back c. eat something d. have a "portals visited" challenge in that phase so you can go see other places in the play box might be better. I was also curious if we structured the reward for victory in an earlier phase by giving one team extra information for a later phase if that might be more fun (and allow comeback mechanics even if one team was thoroughly trounced in an earlier phase). An example there might be: the winning team would be told which portals shard would start at and what the targets were during the rest phase before or told which portals would have the battle beacons / volatile battle beacons. That information is certainly a large advantage, but its not impossible to overcome which may make it a good reward for winning an earlier phase.</p><p>Is there anything simple that I've missed that we could do?</p><p>Just to reiterate: this is just me asking questions trying to gather some feedback and information, not the team. I cannot promise any specific changes from this, but I will read every comment and I will use that information to see what I can do. Also, I am not involved in the planning of anomalies and I know that there is improvement there, but for this thread I would ask to focus on the content of the anomaly over the planning (I have read through the other thread about the planning already)</p>]]>
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        <title>New Onsite Anomaly Registration Process</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/1747/new-onsite-anomaly-registration-process</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>NianticOfficial</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Agents,</p><p>We’d like to inform you of some changes to the onsite Anomaly medal process to reduce the potential for errors and to make things easier for players. </p><p>Registration via our event system is still required. However, we will be double checking that the Agent name and email address you register with matches what we have in our system. If your Agent name cannot be found (mostly likely due to a typo), we will send you an email to notify you. </p><p>In addition, for the onsite Anomaly medal only, Agents will no longer be required to have their registration ticket scanned or to hack a single registration portal. To be considered eligible for an onsite Anomaly medal, you will be required to register for an Anomaly Medal ticket and perform at least thirteen (13) successful hacks of Anomaly Portals during the three-hour Anomaly competition. The times for each Anomaly can be found at <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fingress.com%2Fevents" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://ingress.com/events</a>.</p><p>This is a transitional solution as we continue to develop a more integrated ticketing experience. In the future, we will move to an authenticated registration flow, where you can register for events directly from the Ingress Prime scanner. In the meantime, we hope that this process will be easier and more reliable for everyone.</p><p>— The Ingress Team</p>]]>
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        <title>Ornaments when?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20479/ornaments-when</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>evoleno</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Ornaments when?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a data-username="NianticBrian" data-userid="20895" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticBrian">@NianticBrian</a> <a data-username="NianticHilda" data-userid="42" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticHilda">@NianticHilda</a></p>]]>
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        <title>No Anomaly rules memes megathread</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20478/no-anomaly-rules-memes-megathread</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>M1chaeI</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>This thread is mainly used for linking memes. One meme per post please.</p>]]>
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        <title>Rules when?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20462/rules-when</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>evoleno</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Rules when?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a data-username="NianticBrian" data-userid="20895" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticBrian">@NianticBrian</a> <a data-username="NianticHilda" data-userid="42" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticHilda">@NianticHilda</a></p>]]>
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        <title>Rules when?</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20435/rules-when</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>evoleno</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Rules when?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a data-username="NianticBrian" data-userid="20895" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticBrian">@NianticBrian</a> <a data-username="NianticHilda" data-userid="42" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticHilda">@NianticHilda</a></p>]]>
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        <title>Score updates for Phase 2</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20038/score-updates-for-phase-2</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>SSSputnik</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>When and where? We were told score updates would be posted in News section on Niantic web site and NOTHING.</p><p>You guys are killing this game.</p>]]>
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        <title>Anomaly SuperPosition Salvador Brazil</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20045/anomaly-superposition-salvador-brazil</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>FMotaBra</dc:creator>
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<p>Anomaly official photo (Salvador Brazil)</p><p>............................................</p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/G8C7GH7U8ZF6\/img-20220829-204356-656.jpg&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;IMG_20220829_204356_656.jpg&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:337574,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;height&quot;:562,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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        <title>What was promised vs what happened</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19854/what-was-promised-vs-what-happened</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>lgpmichael</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>2019: Niantic: We hear you, we'll give you more notice about anomalies.</p><p>2019: Niantic: Here's anomalies with 6 months notice</p><p>2019: Players: Finally, Niantic listened to us on something!</p><p>2020: Niantic: Here's another anomaly, just one in the world.</p><p>2020: Players: w t f, what about players not in Europe.</p><p>2020: Anomaly postponed. Covid, nobopdy's fault.</p><p>2022: We're re-announcing the Munich anomaly, in 3 months.</p><p>2022: Players: You promised us more time, and these rules are terrible and designed to milk us for money.</p><p>2022: Niantic: "We hear your concerns" - but we don't care.</p><p>2022: Players: *many people arranage to fly to munich from all over the world to make sure they don't miss an anomaly series*</p><p>2022: Niantic: , We're just going to make it worse for the attendees by making it easier for just about anyone to get the badge.</p><p>2022: Players: *sigh*</p><p>2022: Niantic: We're announcing more anomalies in the same series. All over the world. Oh and you have less than a month's notice.</p><p>2022: Players: WTAF. How are we supposed to organise the massive effort that goes in from the teams, in less than a month. Flight prices will already be too high, hotel prices will be too high as the time is too close, and people will already have plans. This will be a disaster.</p><p>2022 soon: Anomalies with terrible short notice are badly attended</p><p>2022 soon: Niantic: Nobody likes anomalies. No more anomalies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Niantic, Ingress isn't dying, you're killing it. As a player of 8 years, who has played the game on 3 continents, let me tell you about your game and its players.</p><p>1) We understand you need to make money on Ingress. Thats one of the reasons many of us have core. Not cos we want monthly kit boosts of useless ITO items, but because we want to support the game we love</p><p>2) We don't want it dumbed down. Your player base is problem solvers and competitive players. We want it to be tough. We don't want to have everything handed to us on a plate. We want it to be tough to win. If we wanted dumbed down, we'd go to PoGo. We haven't.</p><p>3) Anomalies aren't for you to make money. They are for you to keep your players engaged. Your most dedicated players love anomalies - proper anomalies, not the munich abboration - and we want them to happen. And when we go to them, we remember we love the game and we play more, WHICH makes you the money. Anomalies are what keep the rest of the game going. Throwing in barriers and de-valuing anomalies is what will ki ll Ingress. Absolutely guaranteed.</p><p>4) You don't need to do anything for anomalies. Stop organising expensive afterparties and flying people all round the world, and then complaining they're too expensive. What the players want are as follows: 6 months notice of sites. 12 or 18 anomalies, spread around the world. Announce FUN rules, not rules that make us buy battle beacons. The rest, we'll do. We'll organise the parties, we'll organise the teams, we'll make it a fun experience for players. This costs you NOTHING except maybe a little extra server capacity in places.</p><p><br /></p><p>In return for these things, I can promise you, Ingress will keep on running and making you a modest profit for years to come.</p><p>If you ignore your players, they'll go away. Please please pay attention to what we're saying. We're trying to save the game here.</p>]]>
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        <title>Superposition Puebla, MX</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20012/superposition-puebla-mx</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>JimboMX</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>We have created this crossfaction video to invite you to join us at Puebla, MX</p><p>https://youtu.be/CWDDosTPSRc</p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;height&quot;:113,&quot;width&quot;:200,&quot;photoUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/CWDDosTPSRc\/hqdefault.jpg&quot;,&quot;videoID&quot;:&quot;CWDDosTPSRc&quot;,&quot;showRelated&quot;:false,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/youtu.be\/CWDDosTPSRc&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;¡Te esperamos! #Ingress #Superposition Puebla&quot;,&quot;frameSrc&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWDDosTPSRc?feature=oembed&amp;autoplay=1&quot;}">
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        <title>Kythera - FAQs</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19209/kythera-faqs</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 16:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>NianticThia</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Q: What do the ornaments in the 10 selected cities indicate?</strong></p><p><a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/169617/#Comment_169617" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">As noted by NianticOfficial</a>, the ornaments now appearing in the 10 selected cities are to give Agents a rough idea of the playbox submitted by the local organizers for play. They may or may not be anything else but Agents in these areas should expect <code spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">NIASection14</code> RBBs and Shards in the area outlined.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Q: How will the Shards be scored?</strong></p><p>For each Shard scored, that team gets 1 of the 13 available Shard points.</p><p>E.g. 1: ENL scores 13 Shards. ENL gets 13 points, RES gets 0.</p><p>E.g. 2: RES scores 8 Shards, ENL scores 5 Shards. RES gets 8 points, ENL gets 5 points.</p><p>E.g. 3: ENL scores 5 Shards. RES scores 5 Shards. 3 Shards go unscored. ENL gets 5 points, RES gets 5 points, 3 points go unassigned<a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticOfficial" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">.</a></p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19843/no-score-for-superposition-phase-1</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>JimboMX</dc:creator>
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<p><a data-username="NianticThia" data-userid="47111" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticThia">@NianticThia</a>  <a data-username="NianticBrian" data-userid="20895" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ingress.com/en/profile/NianticBrian">@NianticBrian</a> it's August 3, and there is no update on the Score for SUPERPOSITION phase 1.</p><p>The Community would at least appreciate a message if there was any kind of problem that didn't let you get the Scores on time...</p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/691/what-was-your-first-anomaly</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>Patka07</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Mine was Cassandra Prime in Warsaw. First on site and TR for starter... I was so nervous, couldn't think stright but my team was great and so supportive! What are your memories?</p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19672/why-only-credit-card-accepted-for-the-afterparty</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>oppad</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Dear Niantic,</p><p>As player I don't like to complain. But now I will, all the time I go to Anomalies the only way to buy tickets (after party, OCF, Niantic swag) is by using an Credit Card. I hoped that you finally would change this, by adding the option of PayPal. Unfortunally that didn't happen, and my question is WHY?</p><p>Personally I was lucky to have parents with a credit card but a lot of players not.</p><p>Kind regard,</p><p>oppad (ENL)</p>]]>
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        <title>An open letter to Nia re: timing.</title>
        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19518/an-open-letter-to-nia-re-timing</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>MayaTheSiren</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>I'm a Texas agent who has been to the last 3 European anomaly events: FRA, NBG, and Dresden. I was really looking forward to Munich being my 4th.</p><p>When the 2020 Munich anomaly was postponed, I worked hard to get refunds on everything I could, and have been "saving up" for the future. </p><p>All 3 previous anomalies I had attended overseas were in either spring or fall, and thus had much cheaper airline tickets than prime summer vacation travel. I would spend  hours trying to find the best flight/hotel deals. It was part of the fun. </p><p>When Nia rescheduled Munich for July, my heart sank. Not only are prices to travel sky high, but between plane pilot shortages, and people traveling now who haven't done so in two years, this journey will be an expensive perfect storm. </p><p>I assume this may be "the last" anomaly as we've known them, since battle beacons have taken over, there's no "need" to travel anymore. Despite the fact that traveling/meeting folks is half the fun. </p><p>*IF* there ever is another worldwide or even country-wide anomaly as was in the past, please reconsider scheduling them in spring and/or fall, so more folks can afford to make the trip. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you.</p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19423/anomaly-play-idea</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>SSSputnik</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Two portals, (or possibly more), Green and Blue, representing some plastic-bag-on-head exogenous entities presence on Earth randomly appear in play box.</p><p>The portals are indestructible for the event.  Unmodded or dbl FA and TU.  Perhaps hacking them has some refill/adverse effect.  Doesn't matter too much.</p><p>Aim - longest links to and from these portals scores points.    (Cumulative)  (Allow linking under fields).</p><p>The links don't have to stay up, just be created.</p><p>Lore wise this could be to help spread the entities influence over a large area etc.</p><p>Could help balance scores, encourage creative play etc.</p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19420/epochmedal-is-no-get</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Alto623</dc:creator>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19407/tickets-information-on-superposition-after-anomaly-party</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>saarstahl</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>The announcement says "Ticket information on after-Anomaly party, Stealth Ops, Urban Ops, OCF and OPR Live will be released in a separate announcement no later than 4 weeks before the event."</p><p>Does this mean we have to pay to attend the afterparty? Even C.O.R.E. subscribers? </p><p><a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fingress.com%2Fnews%2F2022-q3-events%2F" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://ingress.com/news/2022-q3-events/</a></p>]]>
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/19278/problemas-con-medalla</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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        <dc:creator>Daxvc</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Te go problemas con la medalla , tengo las 8 que se necesita para cambiar a dorada pero sigue en plata, ya reinicie el juego, lo desinstale y lo volví a instalar y nada </p><p>Adjunto imagen del problema </p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/AMZ1F706PG4B\/screenshot-2022-05-25-11-23-45-351-com-nianticproject-ingress.jpg&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Screenshot_2022-05-25-11-23-45-351_com.nianticproject.ingress.jpg&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:637699,&quot;width&quot;:323,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;mediaID&quot;:74804,&quot;dateInserted&quot;:&quot;2022-05-25T22:43:21+00:00&quot;,&quot;insertUserID&quot;:33001,&quot;foreignType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;foreignID&quot;:33001,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;file&quot;}">
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        <link>https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/18786/kythera-phase-1</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Anomalies</category>
        <dc:creator>NianticOfficial</dc:creator>
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<p>As Agents correctly identified based on earlier <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.louvre.fr%2Fen%2Fark%3A%2F53355%2Fcl010061995" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">Louvre Museum</a> clues from K, the Kythera Anomaly Series kicks off from April through June. With the Enlightened victory of the Kureze Effect, K chose to align themselves with the Enlightened. However, in their last encoded message, they shared the following request: </p><div><div><p>I’m going to need all the help you can give, whether you’re Enlightened or Resistance, as we continue the investigation into Kythera and its origins.</p></div></div><p>But what is the Kythera Mechanism? <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fsketchfab.com%2F3d-models%2Fantikythera-mechanism-main-fragment-ct-d7f48c8999c5406db1a9edba8a350a47" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">The Antikythera Mechanism</a> is “the ancient computer that simply shouldn’t exist.” It is generally referred to as the first known analogue computer, and was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses. But there were certainly more devices like the Antikythera Mechanism in the ancient world. It wasn’t unique; it had a sister.</p><p>Over the coming months, we intend to rediscover what is the Kythera Mechanism and its purpose. In the Kythera Anomaly Series, an Enlightened victory will shape K’s decision to use the Kythera Mechanism. A Resistance victory will convince them to destroy it.</p><p>During the Kythera Anomaly Series, we expect to see 100 locations destabilized each phase. Any given location may or may not be targeted in more than one phase.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kythera Phase 1 is expected to occur from <strong>Friday, 15 April 2022 1100 UTC to Monday, 18 April 2022 1100 UTC</strong> (72 hours), and reach its maxima on Sunday 17 April.</p><p>Starting shortly, NIASection14 will start to ornament some of the Portals at locations that will be targeted by Kythera during Phase 1. <strong>NIASection14 will deploy Rare Battle Beacons</strong> on <strong>Sunday, 17 April</strong> on Kythera-targeted Portals between <strong>1430 and 1730 local time</strong>. The NIA strongly advises Agents to take control of these Kythera targets for K’s investigation.</p><p>The NIA also urges Agents to deploy Rare or Very Rare Battle Beacons on Portals they believe will disturb Kythera during the Phase 1 event window from 15-18 April. Trust your instincts. There are no coincidences. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.</p><p>Good luck.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>NIA Procedure</strong></p><ul><li>Some Portals at each target location will be ornamented from shortly after this COMM until 15 April 1100 UTC. The ornaments will look like this:</li></ul><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/52H3H7KMVFVD\/kureze-ornament-remote.jpeg&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;kureze-ornament-remote.jpeg&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:58383,&quot;width&quot;:628,&quot;height&quot;:628,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;small&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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<ul><li>On Sunday, 17 April from 14:30 to 17:30 local time, NIASection14 will deploy Rare Battle Beacons on targeted Portals. They will become visible via Scanner starting at 14:30 local time for the first checkpoint to begin at 14:40.</li><li>There will be at least one break within the 3-hour period.</li><li>It is possible for a given Portal to be deployed with a Rare Battle Beacon by NIASection14 more than once within the 3-hour period.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Scoring</strong></p><p>The final Kythera score for each Faction will be the total Kythera score across 3 phases earned by the respective Faction.</p><p>For each phase, each of the 100 locations targeted worths a total of 13 points, to be distributed to the two Factions according to the ratio of weighted Battle Beacon Point Values they earned from NIA-deployed Rare Battle Beacons. Each Battle Beacon will be weighted based on the Battle Category, which is based on offensive or defensive actions on the underlying Portals. From CAT-I to CAT-VI, the weighted values are 1-2-3-6-7-8 respectively.</p><p><em>For example, if a given Battle Beacon Score is Checkpoint 1: ENL 2; Checkpoint 2: RES 3; Checkpoint 3: ENL 4, and Battle CAT-V, then the Enlightened earns 42 points (6*7) and the Resistance earns 21 (3*7).</em></p><p><em>Further to this example, if the aforementioned Battle Beacon is the only NIA-deployed Battle Beacon in a given targeted location, then the Enlightened scores 9 out of 13 and the Resistance earns 4 out of 13 at this location.</em></p><p>Agent-deployed Rare or Very Rare Battle Beacons for each phase is worth a total of 260 points globally, to be distributed to the two Factions according to the ratio of weighted Battle Beacon Point Values they earned from Agent-deployed Battle Beacons between 15 April 2022 1100 UTC and Monday, 18 April 2022 1100 UTC.</p><p><em>For example, if all Agent-deployed Battle Beacons during the said period sum up to  ENL 305,752 vs 317,323 RES, the actual point distribution will be ENL 128:132 RES.</em></p><p>In Kythera Phase 2 and 3, 10 target locations will be picked from all applications received via this form: <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2Fid3vFqXQ1MuEj95E8" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://forms.gle/id3vFqXQ1MuEj95E8</a>. Each of these 10 locations will be worth 26 points (totaling 260 points per phase). For May, apply by Sunday, 24 April. For June, apply by 29 May.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Results Announcements</strong></p><p>Interim global results for each Faction will be announced periodically through in-app News Feed and the Ingress Community Forum.</p><p>The final score for Phase 1 will be announced within 24 hours through in-app News Feed and the Ingress Community Forum.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Kythera Medal</strong></p><p>Any Agent who has interacted with at least ten (10) Battle Beacons scored at any of the three Kythera Phases will be awarded the in-app Kythera medal. This medal will be awarded as soon as an Agent meets such criteria. Agents who have already been awarded the in-app Kythera medal in an earlier event phase will not receive a second medal in a later phase.</p><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/6V632K7EENYZ\/medal-kythera.png&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;medal_Kythera.png&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:54949,&quot;width&quot;:512,&quot;height&quot;:512,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;small&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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<p><em>For example, if an Agent interacted with 3 Battle Beacons deployed by XM Sensitive Agents during Phase 1 and interacted with 7 NIA-deployed Battle Beacons during Phase 2, they will receive the Kythera Medal by the end of Phase 2.</em></p><p>To assist Agents, the Kythera Anomaly metric will remain on your Agent Profile for the duration of the Kythera Anomaly Series to help you monitor your individual progress.</p><p>Also available during the season of Kythera in the Ingress Store:</p><ul><li>Limited-time Klue load-out kit with <strong>re-release of the 2015 Klue medal</strong> (30800 CMU) </li></ul><div data-embedjson="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031689\/uploads\/8W2TZ3LJKBRB\/klue-2015.png&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;klue_2015.png&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:101327,&quot;width&quot;:512,&quot;height&quot;:512,&quot;displaySize&quot;:&quot;small&quot;,&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}">
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<p><br /></p><p>Want to have your location considered for hosting a Kythera Anomaly in May or June? </p><p>Please fill in: <a href="https://community.ingress.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2Fid3vFqXQ1MuEj95E8" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">https://forms.gle/id3vFqXQ1MuEj95E8</a></p><p>For May, apply by Sunday, 24 April.</p><p>For June, apply by Sunday, 29 May.</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, please remember to be aware of your surroundings. We encourage players to follow local health and safety guidelines when playing Ingress (such as wearing masks and maintaining at least six feet/two meters of distance from other people). For the latest on in-game events and feature updates, be sure to check COMM &gt; NEWS.</p><p>— The Ingress Team</p><p><br /></p><p>============</p><p>The team has discussed and it has been decided that for multiple reasons, the <strong>NIA deployed RBBs will remain as scheduled for Sunday, 17 April from 1430 - 1730 local time</strong>.</p><p>We are aware that not all of us celebrate the same holidays or recognize the same days of rest, and that is why the current quarterly Anomaly events are being designed in a way that it is OK to miss a month (<em>or even two</em>) and still participate. We are also being conscious to take into consideration in-game events that take place in other Niantic games.</p><p>Additionally, we are for the time being going to continue to give shorter notice than pre-2020 live events as we do not want to encourage traveling yet. I know many want to travel (<em>and do</em>) and we’re hoping to be able to provide details at least 2 weeks in advance. I’m unsure when we’ll get back to more lead-time but we definitely want to move towards that direction.</p>]]>
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