I launched the drone onto the portal, which is 570 meters away from me, then I jumped from it to the next portal, which is located 600 mestres from the previous one, but kilometers do not count towards me.
How to launch a drone so that kilometers are taken into account in the statistics of drone flight?
After some tests I can say that the drone is able to fly for a distance around 600 meters. But sometimes portals on 550 meters are not shown on the map.
You don't even need bookmarks. Just use draw tools and start drawing a line from the origin portal to the current location and you will see the length of your line as you draw it. This assumes desktop... draw tools is unusable on mobile without bookmarks, and only partially functional with them.
Less than 500m is safe to go back always. More than that is risked to be one way only.
It doesn't load portals in a 500m range, it loads the all cells (with theirs portals) in a 500m range. Sometimes a cell will be just a tip inside this range, and load its portal on the other corner, that will make a one way only trip.
500m should be safe, I think there is a small chance even at 501m it could get stuck. If you're using IITC, there is a plugin developed to help you find routes and it does show potential portals you would get stuck on.
Why would a person need to know the exact distance? There is a pretty decent plugin that will tell you if you can make the jump or not. Key needed or standard method...
So, you need to know the exact distance because if you do a jump past 500 m, there's a risk you can not jump back
But lets say you are planning a route to maximize your "Furthest Drone Flight" stat, since the delay is 1 hour per jump, you now have the tools via this type of Google sheet.
Also, take note, IITC is still a debatable topic, a lot of agents consider it cheating, even I have mixed feeling about IITC at times.
The plug-ins within it are even more riskier, You don't know who coded the plug in, but I can see someone easily slipping in let's say a key logger in the code.
Also with plug-ins, Niantic has mass ban agents before because of plug-ins which scrapped meta data.
This Google sheet method is a good way to avoid using IITC and being legit and more safe way to go imo
Fair enough. I know the guy who made the plugin and trust him, so I feel safe using it, but understand your concern. His plugin has helped me get 31km into a 101km flight.
I actually added to this sheet for tracking unique drone portal visits, it works by using the copy function in the portal view and pasting it in. Keep in mind that in Google sheets, once it gets to about 200 rows, it has issues loading sometimes, the way around that is just create a new tab
So pasting the coordinates in one column and can type in notes about the portal the other column, you can track the next portal you want to move your drone next without trying to remember an hour+ later
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Hi guys!
I launched the drone onto the portal, which is 570 meters away from me, then I jumped from it to the next portal, which is located 600 mestres from the previous one, but kilometers do not count towards me.
How to launch a drone so that kilometers are taken into account in the statistics of drone flight?
It is calculated from the first portal you deployed on to it's current location, in a straight line. It doesn't calculate from your position.
If he flies like this, should it count as 1 kilometer? Why doesn’t it count then? In a straight line, from the first portal to the final - 1.03 km.
Thank you all
How far can it go ?
Until you don't see anymore portals to jump to, or a portal it is on changes polarity.
After some tests I can say that the drone is able to fly for a distance around 600 meters. But sometimes portals on 550 meters are not shown on the map.
Anyone with some observations?
Yes, about that.
I'm going to have a google sheet which takes 2 portal links and do some testing.
Here's the google sheet formula if you want to do some yourself:
=2 * 6371000 * ASIN(SQRT((SIN((LAT2*(3.14159/180)-LAT1*(3.14159/180))/2))^2+COS(LAT2*(3.14159/180))*COS(LAT1*(3.14159/180))*SIN(((LONG2*(3.14159/180)-LONG1*(3.14159/180))/2))^2))
You can use IITC with the Plugins Bookmarks and Auto Draw and you can see the distance between any two bookmarked portals.
I don't use IITC
You don't even need bookmarks. Just use draw tools and start drawing a line from the origin portal to the current location and you will see the length of your line as you draw it. This assumes desktop... draw tools is unusable on mobile without bookmarks, and only partially functional with them.
Found out yesterday you can 'move' to the portal, BUT sometimes you can not jump back due to the previous portal not loading.
I'm guessing it has to do with map orientation.
In this case, the drone jumped east (521m), and am not able to load the previous portal (which is now westward).
Here is the jump links.
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It's been documented elsewhere, just how the cells lay out and distances end up. Gotta be careful sometimes, get yourself stuck...
Has the minimum distance to guarantee not to get stuck been found?
My example was 521m, so guessing its close to 500m
Less than 500m is safe to go back always. More than that is risked to be one way only.
It doesn't load portals in a 500m range, it loads the all cells (with theirs portals) in a 500m range. Sometimes a cell will be just a tip inside this range, and load its portal on the other corner, that will make a one way only trip.
500m should be safe, I think there is a small chance even at 501m it could get stuck. If you're using IITC, there is a plugin developed to help you find routes and it does show potential portals you would get stuck on.
I created a google sheet for calculating the jump distance, which is designed for doing it from the intel map OR from your scanner
So if you are trying to calculate from the intel map, you paste the portal link into COL A and COL B
Then put the following in COL C
=INDEX(SPLIT(A2,"&pll="),0,5)
And in COL D
=INDEX(SPLIT(B2,"&pll="),0,5)
That will parse the lat / lon from the portal link
Then the following will parse it further
COL E (lat1) - this will also fill in COL F
=SPLIT(C2,",")
COL G - this will also fill in COL H
=SPLIT(D2,",")
The distance in meters will be in COL I
=2 * 6371000 * ASIN(SQRT((SIN(((G2)*(3.14159/180)-(E2)*(3.14159/180))/2))^2+COS(G2*(3.14159/180))*COS((E2)*(3.14159/180))*SIN((((H2)*(3.14159/180)-(F2)*(3.14159/180))/2))^2))
You can copy and paste this row and do multiple drone jump calculations
Instead of pasting portal links, you can overwrite COL C / D with the locations you can copy from the scanner, and COL I will still calculate
You can also use COL J to make notes about that jump
Why would a person need to know the exact distance? There is a pretty decent plugin that will tell you if you can make the jump or not. Key needed or standard method...
So, you need to know the exact distance because if you do a jump past 500 m, there's a risk you can not jump back
But lets say you are planning a route to maximize your "Furthest Drone Flight" stat, since the delay is 1 hour per jump, you now have the tools via this type of Google sheet.
Also, take note, IITC is still a debatable topic, a lot of agents consider it cheating, even I have mixed feeling about IITC at times.
The plug-ins within it are even more riskier, You don't know who coded the plug in, but I can see someone easily slipping in let's say a key logger in the code.
Also with plug-ins, Niantic has mass ban agents before because of plug-ins which scrapped meta data.
This Google sheet method is a good way to avoid using IITC and being legit and more safe way to go imo
Fair enough. I know the guy who made the plugin and trust him, so I feel safe using it, but understand your concern. His plugin has helped me get 31km into a 101km flight.
I actually added to this sheet for tracking unique drone portal visits, it works by using the copy function in the portal view and pasting it in. Keep in mind that in Google sheets, once it gets to about 200 rows, it has issues loading sometimes, the way around that is just create a new tab
So pasting the coordinates in one column and can type in notes about the portal the other column, you can track the next portal you want to move your drone next without trying to remember an hour+ later
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