EOS Imprint - What, from whom and most importantly why to protect?
I have a very specific question. Here is our goal:
Agents are tasked with working to install new safeguards in the Portal Network
This is what we need to do:
From Thursday, 26 May, 16:00 UTC to Monday, 6 June, 16:00 UTC, earn the Eos Imprint medal by accumulating Event Points through the following qualifying actions:
- 25 points for each field of 50k+ MU created
- 16 points for each Portal Scan successfully uploaded
- 9 points for each link of 1km+ in length created
- 4 points for each Portal captured
- 1 point for each Glyph correctly drawn
How will what we do protect us? Why earlier the same actions were not means of protection, and now suddenly they protect something from someone. Oh yeah, and who are we protecting ourselves from? And what are we protecting?
Where is the logic? Where is a clear explanation of how, for example, scanning a portal or creating a field will help researchers or protect our world?
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there is no lore that makes sense to scanning portals to protect us what i can think of really.
Lore: "Play Ingress please. Also, it's ok to stop others playing by making your big fields, because we removed the concept of rules".
If it's like EOS Protocol in the past, we did actions to test its effects on the network.
Considering this event described it as doing research, this is also testing the network based on the type of actions.
Immersion of the story has never been 1:1 even in the past. Some of the events we did last year involved Nemesis when it wasn't really applicable to include them. They were actually using old artwork as the art team involved with Nemesis left Niantic a while ago.
What is this
Next event - (Borrowing from IUENG)
The Event will be live from Thursday, May 26th @ 16:00 UTC to Monday, June 6th @ 16:00 UTC. During this time, Agents will be able to unlock the Eos Imprint medal by gaining Event Points.
The following actions will reward Event Points:
🔸25 points for each field of 50k+ MU created
🔸16 points for each Portal Scan successfully uploaded
🔸9 points for each link of 1km+ in length created
🔸4 points for each Portal captured
🔸1 point for each Glyph correctly drawn
These the tiers of the medal:
🥇8000 points
🥈4000 points
🥉2000 points
A new metric will be added to Agents' Profiles to monitor their progress during the event!
Thank you. I went out today and practiced.
To make this whole thing more ridiculous, if you just navigate to for example
https://intel.ingress.com/?pll=31.138318,121.230595
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2fd9f8791fcdbb406cba131db0edd1af5a.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d31.138318%2c121.230595
you will see like someone thumbing like mad, with sub-accounts of both factions, and get this badge almost instantly.
Well, it's a thumb-like badge, isn't it?
I don't see a flying flamingo that this event is protecting, it's merely encouraging win-win trading and vague scanning.
I don’t know how Scanning fits in to the lore, or if it even does, but as that gets the most points besides large fields, I wonder how that “protects” the portals.
Bringing a realm to life for the researchers to access patterns is why we are scanning. They are somewhere and they need more of the board given shape as they see something but not where. Not dissimilar to the tessellation board that got chopped in half at the beginning of the plague.