Out of patience
Hi everyone, L16 (almost 104M AP) Ingress veteran player here, playing since april 2013. Some of you maybe met me at the anomalies or other events all over Europe. This is my first topic and I'm not sure what category to put it in, so I try this one…..
I'm writing this to **** time during the quarantine (hope you are all doing well) and to inform publicly about some ugly things that are happening in our area and even after our many complaints still nothing changed. We have few annoying res players in our neighborhood, but one of them stands on top. In next few lines I will describe their behavior which lasts for a long long time. I don't want to look like a snitch, but I can't see any other way than writing this topic.
It all started couple years ago with taking photos of me and my friends everywhere where we played, making some "funny" montages of them, one or more videos and share it on FB/IG.... When we said something about GDPR and our rights, the answer was laugh… We didn't go to the police even after one of us was physically attacked by one who I will mention later. My friend accused him that he is cheating (that he is cheating again, he was banned before and he made new account) so he came to found him and attacked him as a revenge. It happened three years ago. Then he almost attacked another enl player, but he was there with friends, so he didn't dare and went back to the pub to drink his beer.
In the same time res players tried to get more likes for their own portal photos, so my or every other enl. player photos were not main. Alright, part of the game. Even though they created new accounts (both factions) for that (and for reading ENL comm, to get rid of shields on flipped portals and to recharge portals they flipped). But it was nothing compared to what was to come.
Bigger problems occurred when submitting was allowed again. They started to add or change descriptions of portals to **** mostly me, and also one of my friend. Things went crazy when more people got access to wayfarer, because IMO, mostly pokémon go players don't care what description says and pick anything with a longer text. Almost every local portals descriptions were changed to some stupidity. Here are some examples with simple translation.
The statue was carved by a carpenter Tonda Marcipán (combination of part of my nickname Tron and they call me Tonda or Antonín…. and friend's name Marcel) according to Tron's pattern/standard/idol in 2009.
Tron's cross. Crucified in the name of warm (gay) ego.
HomoTron's fountain
Founded by a margrave pokálený (translation is “someone who is covered by a ****”), lord from Kyšperk (old name of Letohrad - our town) 1877. Similarity with a chapel of Saint Troll is coincidental.
Here only last sentence: Popular pilgrimage site not only for religious (believers) trollists.
Artificial cave in the castle park / Tron's flat
Last example is few kilometers away. Here was the place where food, medicine and other things were stored to avoid contact during plague in the nearby village Kameničná in 1681 and surrounding were guarded so no one could go in or out. Only one woman survived there. I really don't think this is the place to make fun of.
Desc. says: Jesus in the middle of the field. Historically built by a landlord Antonín Trolda from Kyšperk.
As I said this is only a couple of them. It took a lot of time and energy for me and for support to change or delete most of them. Some are still live, because they look very real and I can't change them.
Eventually he (they) ran out of ideas. So what next? What about advance to the next level of cheating? He (the one who attacked my friend) took photo of one of “tree of the century” sign here in town and made a couch portal near his house 6 km away from the correct position. It was quite funny, because he immediately invited his three friends (two of them are not playing anymore), they made level 8 portal and they put on it beacon and frackers as a some kind of sign of victory or so. It took a while to make it disappear and I also wrote him in comm that he acts like a little kid who needs to have a pokéstop when he walks to school, but why not if it's worth the shame. Btw he is married, nearly 40 yo. This was in january/february 2020. But again - cheating was tolerated, and player didn't get a ban.
No sign there, little yellow house on the left is his. It was somewhere here:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.015956,16.575561&z=20
Only couple of days old portal in the right place made by some Pokémon go player is here:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.037901,16.497761&z=17&pll=50.037901,16.497761
As a revenge his (or their) next “counterattack” was change of the name of one specific portal. This portal is one of the oldest in town made by me (august 2015) and its name was Kolotoč (carousel). New name is Dětské hřiště (kids playground). We have couple of portals with the same name here and in every town and village and it's sometimes chaotic to recognize which is which. Also this portal is gym in Pokémon go and every player knew where to go to a raid when we said come to Kolotoč. I tried to change the name back, but no luck. Then couple of weeks were calm and suddenly on 8th of april portal “Kolotoč” was moved by 70 meters. Here you can see before and after screenshots and also the link to mapy.cz where that carousel is clearly visible:
link to map is here:
before:
Portal is now here, in real there is only pavement next to the sand playground
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.034805,16.507825&z=17&pll=50.034805,16.507825
We are still waiting for Niantic to move it back to the right place. I have to say there is of course possibility that portal was moved by somebody else, but I would be very surprised.
Well, this was quite long, but we are really out of patience. The game(s) is not as fun as it was before. This is just a portion of bad behavior, harassment, wayfarer abuse, cheating and making fun of believers, homosexuals…. (I'm not either one of them). Also think about kids, because descriptions are also visible in Pokémon go and Harry Potter:WU... What they might think when they read something about trolls or worse? There is such a simple solution so I'm asking again - is it or it isn't enough to punish him? He now plays only occasionally. He spends more time to think what kind of nasty stuff put into descriptions. And that fake portal was his without doubt and he escaped without warning. You ask how I found out he's doing probably every of those dirty things? His friend told us.
So ..... is someone who spends money for frackers and badges protected from ban? What else he has to do, Niantic?
Thank you all for your attention and be safe













Comments
Seems like people are taking out their IRL frustration onto the game.
wow that sucks, that guy clearly must get banned from doing portal edits and even have his acc banned what he is doing is not ok, both portal abuse and physical **** etc, how can this player be allowed to play ???... try submit support ticket and provide all evidence etc... let niantic hopefully decide the best thing to do. No i doubt anyone buying frackers for real money is immune to ban i dont think so every player must follow agent protocol and TOS when playing the game how to behave etc.
This is really inadequate behavior and violation of the TOS. Why is this player still playing and bothering the community? This RES player is clearly abusing Ingress to increase his ego and this should not be tolerated. Its also abuse of time. It's also an waste of time for people who do OPR, and try to play a normal fun game.
Banned! Thanks for help, guys :)
Es un jugador que requiere atención psiquiátrica, casi todos tenemos uno cerca. Tres en mi caso.