Win-trading on an FS event today - let me hear your opinion again
About 2 months ago, I wrote a post which argued the win-trading on an FS event, and some agents discussed this topic. Thanks for your opinions.
And today, there is only one FS event in South Korea and the agents mentioned by my previous thread are doing win-trading again. You can see the event detail in here - https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=18624
You already know 2 Swiss agents have got banned for some reason but it is strongly suspected of being punished for win-trading since the banned agent mainly wrote about the FS event which he/she joined. I think Niantic is obligated to specify the reason for the punishment for sure.
(https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/118042)
In my opinion, this means that Niantic confirmed those kinds of activities are the reason of punishment which is including:
- Cross-faction agents meet at the same time and place without any public announcement or agreement
- They act to the advantage of them (AP, UPC, or any stats)
- Negatively impact the community
and you can see what's going on the only FS event in South Korea (it's live at 3:24pm Oct. 3th 2020) - https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=37.499288,126.766312&z=17&pll=37.499288,126.766312
For your information, I have checked 3 RES agents and 11 ENL agents are doing win-trade on the site at this point.
For 3 RES agents, 2 agents recursed from ENL to RES (one of them is RES host for the FS event) while they still act as ENL (flip ENL portal to make level 8 portal, deploy LinkAmp to RES agents' farming portal, or so), and 1 agent is known as a toxic agent who is doing win-trade on his area with ENL (ex: use ADA to flip ENL agent's portal to make higher portal's level, destroy disturbing links by asking from ENL agent(s), or so)
So I consider all of the agents who joined today's win-trading are with the same faction in real, and they are doing it again without notifying the ENL host.
Some of them may complain that "I (or we) planned to use battle beacons and test it to see how it goes since Niantic updated it just before" but this activity must include:
- Public announcement of the meetup (time, place, rules, etc.)
- FS Host's approval. It must be obtained prior to the activities
and ENL host of the FS event confirmed that
- He/she made a verbal announcement including the definition of win-trading he/she thinks which is strongly prohibited by Ingress community
- There is no announcement of today's win-trading or meetup in public (event page, Telegram channel, Korean Ingress community) - so it's totally private at all
As Niantic banned 2 Swiss agents (strongly suspected win-trading even they really did it or not) I think that this is also a kind of cheating and should be punished just as 2 Swiss agents were banned.
Mentioning their real agent name may violate Ingress community guideline (I cannot sure actually), so if you need any more information then write some comments on this thread or contact me via Telegram (@madderColor)
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PS: one of the agents who joined today's win-trading dropped 300 of level 1 resonators within 3 capsules on a RES agent's nearby portal yesterday night. A RES agent picked all of them so he/she could check the detail.
I think this means that today's win-trading is planned since low-level resonators are used in on-site FS event as usual to earn APs and stats.
if they made plans before and during the event to gain as much ap as possible then in my book it is win-trading and nothing else.
What's interesting about this case is that two different teams of win traders from the August IFS assembled at a park for the October virtual event. One team drove 45km, or 28 miles, to the site. Both teams have used identical methods to gain AP in the past. The addition of Battle Beacons is new and also supports the claim that the gathering was planned.
The IFS organizers at Fev Games have clearly stated that they have no business enforcing Niantic's rules. Queries were squelched with a lecture about "enjoying the game more and worrying less about what others do." The win traders continue to take turns hosting IFS events every month.
One local RES agent presented their findings to the main community hub but was promptly assailed by anonymous trolls who said nothing would happen if they keep quiet. And that's exactly what happened. Nothing. Niantic periodically announces that promoting fair gameplay and preserving the integrity of the game are important. It's time the update the terms of service and retroactively ban win traders.
I, the ENL host, he(not she), confirms here that I have received this discussion in draft form, and have confirmed the parts of my actions.
As always, discussions are open.
Birds of feather flock together
One of them asserts that "if someone want to enjoy FS in pub at night, you may register FS event which held in foreign city where event begins at night for your TZ, then make gathering with xfac agents in your local, it's Okay"
it happened actually in xfac channel of COMMS. it's horrible thought. they understand purport of virtual event arbitrarily and abuse it for their (private group) benefits.
I complained about these actions in community of Korean agents, they were ignoring perfectly and repeat abusing.
The most earner got 3.24M APs who is dropped 300 of lv1 resos @madderColor mentioned in above.
2.3M, 2.1M, 2M, 1.9M, 1.5M and 1.4M in order from the 2nd ranked earner. Note that they did Win-trading during about 2.5 hrs
Question: are those 3 RES expelled from their respective community?
refer article. they are ENL players in real. 2 RES' who are live in same area and have ENL buddies in local. they recursed from ENL to RES recently and few months ago.
the other is toxic agent as @madderColor mentioned, such as helps ENL agents in local.
So, they do not belong any RES communities from the first.
I Brought news.
Two xfac agents who are win-traders had organized next VFS event.
they decided held location at entrance of Korean traditional market. (let's do google images with 'Korean traditional market' for help your imagination)
it located in residential area where is very crowd and were surounded narrow one-ways. it's not suitable to try IFS event in common sense.
calm down. I know organizers may choose 'any' place for Virtual Event which since pandemic, it's coursely. I just want to say there's a reason for choosing a symbolless place instead of large plaza/park.
You can guess they will try win-trading in November VFS again. if you check intel map of registration portal-
you can guess they can't do win-trading at that portal and they will try it appropriated location at nearby also.
Here's secret. there is a tiny children playground nearby the location and that has four portals. visitors can access four portals with sitting benches but it seems doesn't accommodate over 10~15 ppl (it means win-traders will do not any gathering announcement to public, they will do abusing privately again)
because of these condition, this playground has been in the spotlight recently as a gathering place for farming for ENLs who live in neighbor cities. and almost of them is belong win-trader group. It means. the registration portal can be considered that is snug and familiar spot for win-traders, that's why they choose there.
Then. can you guess what will happened at that place in afternoon of first saturday November?