What is your opinion about IITC?

and why did iitc become indispensable to anomalies?

IITC vs Intel?

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  • M4NDR4M4NDR4 ✭✭✭

    Guess if Niantic still trying to contact to iitc’s creator

  • MajeyeMajeye ✭✭✭

    Whether or not agents like it, regardless of opinion, IITC is against Niantic's current rules/TOS.


    I'd avoid it, or at the very least, don't let anyone on that you're using it.

  • It's a great website, and mostly because you can have a lot of informations with plugins, maybe too much informations. I'd avoid using it too for now.

  • CleridwenCleridwen ✭✭
    edited June 2019

    I'd avoid it, or at the very least, don't let anyone on that you're using it.

    Some users reported that the app can already detect if you are rooted by detecting rooting apps, so I won't reccomend to install one of the IITC app if it's confirmed that it's against the ToS. Apps like Intello X works fine on mobile.

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    IITC is not required for a normal gameplay. OPs are possible too.

    It is true that IITC capacity goes far beyond INTEL.

    Opinion: doesn't matter, if it is against ToS is not to be used.

  • I think it’s great for directions to portals, drawing ops and just easier to use and I don’t believe Niantic has any problem with agents using it

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    @eddiesboy But what about Player-Tracker pluggin? I don't think Niantic is ok with that 🙄

  • @MrCathulhu Sharing a few pictures between a several pictures of an op is not allow it. Is simply share a post.

  • MrCathulhuMrCathulhu ✭✭✭

    @GoblinGranate Player tracker shows people from data already publicly available in comms, it's just a visual representation of said info. Though I totally understand why some people don't like it.


    @MasterWikie Your post doesn't make sense.

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrCathulhu I can't argue with that, you are right about it. Still feels wrong, though.

    I think IITC is not required, but in certain moments INTEL is just of no use. I'm not using IITC because I simply don't need it, but I totally understand people who does use it.

  • IITC is fine in my opinion, just don’t use stuff like player tracker and such. It’s just intel with tools. If niantic wanted to, they could add some of these to Ingress intel. If they did that and possibly released an app, most people would ditch IITC.

    Just an opinion.

  • MajeyeMajeye ✭✭✭

    Taken right from Niantic's community forum guidelines:


    II. Avoid Discussing or Promoting illicit gameplay or services

    Ingress is meant to be played on your mobile device and get you outdoors to explore the world. Avoid discussions on using modified client software or unauthorized third-party software that violate our Terms of Service.

  • DigitalisDigitalis ✭✭✭

    i have never used iitc, stock intel works fine for me on my phone. zero interest in ever using iitc.

  • I Know of someone using it to follow the activity of other agents, which actually creeped me out at first.

    until i learned it was'nt tracking you, but only made a graphic show of the information given in the comm About the activity of the followed agent.

    in general i don't mind people using it. I simply just don't see any reason too.

  • MajeyeMajeye ✭✭✭

    I guess I'm confused as to what you need stock intel to do for you beyond what it already does?

    Looking at stock intel map and comms, you can see what links/fields are going out, you can see the agent(s) involved, you can see if agents are fracking, and which portal is being fracked.

    What we don't need intel to do:

    Player track by any definition of the phrase, be that by seeing where XM is missing on the map, tracking location and direction of the agent.

    We don't need it to have the ability to scan the entire map for certain levels of portals (you should be out in the field scouting for these as this is a mobile game that requires you to be out in the world)

    And this seems to be the really only difference from stock intel and IITC (with some exception).

    To be honest, we don't need the intel map at all, we shouldn't even have it. So, I guess we should be thankful that it's even there in the first place.

    Whether or not we agree with the TOS, its there. IITC breaks the TOS, therefore, it shouldn't be used. We don't have to like it, but it is what it is.

  • MorganzaMorganza ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the past Niantic has bent over backwards to avoid giving a yes/no answer as to whether IITC violates the TOS.

    Technically it does but Niantic seems to be well aware how much basic functionality agents rely on it for.

  • MorganzaMorganza ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some things IITC does that stock Intel does not:

    1. Remain usable on my phone alongside Ingress.

    2. Make it easy to scroll in and out.

    3. Draw and plan fields.

    4. View the map uncluttered by fields and links (for planning.)

    5. View different underlying map layers (for example contours or satellite view. "Is there a crosswalk between portal A and Portal B?")

  • Still grey area ehh?

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