How has Ingress made a positive change in your life?
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If you're here, chances are that Ingress has been an important part of your life.
How has Ingress changed your life for the better?
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If you're here, chances are that Ingress has been an important part of your life.
How has Ingress changed your life for the better?
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I've met so many absolutely wonderful people who have become important in my life, and traveled all over with them.
I've visited all sorts of crazy locations in the western US that I'd never been to or in some cases never heard of before... ghost towns, lighthouses, parks.
But mostly it's the people.
It was making me take up longer walks or go hill walking, but back issues, shift pattern and weather have stopped the hill walking and long walks lol
Ingress has been great for fitness inspiration and encouraging visiting lots of cool places, many of which I might never have gone to otherwise.
Absolutely.
I never had a stalker in the past now I have multiple. It's a bliss
I made many new friends and went to many unfamiliar places, including abroad, of course, but it's hard to simply describe the changes.
However, I felt the same feeling I had right after I started as I did right after citizens started to get in touch with computer communications.
It was the very moment when we were connected online, whereas we had been offline before.
At that time we started talking on an Internet BBS with people we didn't know at all, except for our anonymous Internet names.
I remember chatting forever about the same topics of interest.
There was no hierarchical relationship, everything was equal.
And when one issue came up, each of us reached out from our area of expertise to solve it.
Ingress gave me the feeling that this is exactly how it was in the real world.
For me, Ingress is the second paradigm shift after computer communications.
Ingress is a great creative outlet. I love designing fields, creating missions, nominating wayspots, submitting pictures, etc.
It helps me see places I've been many times - in a new way. Murals and things right along my commute. Hidden gems in other towns. Things someone else submitted, or I pass and say: "Whoa, wait - how long is that been there? I need to nominate it!" Things that, before, I wouldn't have even noticed.
Ingress takes me to interesting places I never would have gone before. Historical sites, art, parks, and more. And I get more exercise, because I want uniques along a trail, or thought of a fun fielding pattern for walking around a trail.
Gives me a better knowledge of a place (old or new) when talking to non-Agents. Maybe I've been there for a mission, or noticed it has a lot of portals and want to go there. People will talk about a place, and I'll say, is that with the big Whatsit statue? They'll say no, and I look it up - and there's the big Whatsit statue.
And of course; the Agent friends we make. Rich or poor, whatever color or creed - we're equal in Ingress. And we get together and have fun. Share gear. Set each other up to succeed. Welcome like-factioned visitors to our towns - without knowing anything else about their circumstances.
Once, my kids encountered a couple tadpoles in a botanical garden, and dropped them some Qcaps. Years later, I went to those gardens, and those agents (who didn't know us), now L16, messed us a welcome. When they found out who we were, they came to the gardens to say "Hi" and send their thanks to our sons.
Encountered a lot of perverts and stalkers out there if you call that something good :)
Really going out of your way to say anything bad on here. That's pretty pathetic.
Yeah right, telling an honest experience concerning the game is really pathetic because it seems a sugar-coated response is what one expects.
In a thread that specifically asks for "a positive change in your life"? Yes, people expect a "sugar-coated" response.
Well, welcome to the Twilight Zone forum... :)
Was a heavy public transit power user explorer prior to Ingress. This only encourages further journeys. Sometimes to places I'd overlooked prior.
The cast of characters that taught things I would not have discovered alone. Is the second biggest plus.
The buzz of who's doing what and realizing "not my headache". Zen. Putting up a field that no one was looking at, Zen.
I think Ingress has made me a better person, more respectful of the rules: I came from that other game, after all, and had absorbed a lot of the prevailing mindset. Now, I make sure I play fair (because my teammates will likely lovingly correct my behavior if I do not!) and I'm much more aware of things like park hours and boundaries. If a field of mine is destroyed, then it's an opportunity to rethrow and not a reason to seek swift vengeance! Overall, my gameplay across all games has become less of a battle and more of a joyful experience.
@Shilfiell , you are fortunate that you play in an area that provides you not only a positive atmosphere but happy experiences when playing this game. It is not true for everyone, particularly for new players that were exposed to bullying, harrassment, and stalking by veteran players with their "bots." Anyway, one positive trait that I came to realize is that I never knew how strong I was until being strong is the only choice I have when I played this game. Sure, it would have been nice to work with a team, but finding an honest and friendly team is difficult nowadays, which is why being tough and self-reliant is the way to go for lone lions out there.