I've been confused on where Niantic was taking Ingress in the future and then this event happens and I'm even more confused. Many can't even participate in over clocking and it has nothing to do with the game. What's the purpose of it anyway?
data, Niantic wants to build their database. What better way to get data then to throw an event... (which we've all been begging for all year) And we can complain all day long about scanning and how we will or won't do them, but when it comes to medals in our scanner, most of us will set aside almost any complaint to make sure we don't miss a new medal...
So here we are, Niantic clearly not working with each game to make sure it works well. Not only does the Ingress team release features at a beta stage, they release events at a beta stage as well, lol. Oh, you want VPS activated portals in your town, you will need to figure out how to enable them, which you won't be able to use your in-game login, so anything you do in the wayfarer app won't count towards your in-game stats. Oh, you figured out how to get into the wayfarer app, well, even if you can figure out how to get enough scans, our servers will struggle with the load and it will take several days or longer to actually get more VPS enabled portals in your town. Oh wait, you have some VPS enabled portals in your town? That's cool, except, our overclock feature is still in beta testing, so it could work for you, but also, it might not, so you'll need to learn how to read the glyphs upside down or mirrored.....
I'm at over 2600 from 90% captures/mods. A little OC sprinkled in, but mostly just from getting a calibrated scan in here or there (ie 10 points). Currently waiting for decay, since even though locally we switched to capping with L1 gear, the other faction still hasn't seem to of noticed. sigh
Ingress is a global game, and it's mid summer in the southern hemisphere...
Not saying that Chronos is a perfect event, but that's mainly due to the general lack of overclockable portals for all players.
Calibrating portals at night in midwinter isn't impossible but it requires some light source, I got 5000 Chronos points mainly from overclocking portals after work.
Complaining that it's not summer in December is very hemisphere-ist. Personally I'm in the cold, dark, wet UK and it's not that much fun doing Ingress in December or January. But if we always did everything in June then the Australians in this forum would have the right to complain.
Finished this one yesterday. Lots of driving around, deploying mods, ect. 5k meh.
Next time before having an event, make sure agents have the ability to participate in the way you designed this contest. Else they will just drive around to do this event. I'm sure based on the lack of responses in the past by Ingress employees this too will fall on deaf ears. Similar to Chicago.
I'm sure, in some ways, this was a successful event for Niantic. They got agents using the overclock hack, scanning and using the wayfarer app. Obviously all of this is still at a beta release level, so it wasn't perfect. But I imagine most of the events we'll see in 2024 will cater towards Niantic "forcing" us to work for them in order to earn more medals. Welcome to the future of Ingress.
Yet they say they will focus on an app for scanning which really seemed what the current app does anyway. There's really nothing Wayfarer in the current version.
I got the impression that everyone at Niantic are not taking responsibility, yet talk up about VPS as the best thing for AR.
It is not being utilized to its fullest. Even Ingress's implementation could do a lot more.
We don't know what Brian's plan is.
Lightship dev team
Wayfarer dev team
Ingress dev team
Pokémon Go dev team
These all have product managers/directors and you'd expect that there PMs would have weekly or even, monthly meetings about what is planned, and how the wayfarer and Lightship dev teams can assist.
You can look at your scanner all you want for a very long time but that doesn't help when overclock portals in your neighbourhood are very rare to non-existant or located in really out of the way locations where you would only really stumble upon them by happenstance.
I actually can do OC from WC, bio it's quite a bad idea))) also it's limited OC due to new AR model.. It's kinda boring to waste time for such small number, and If I understand correct OC is counted only if all glyphs are ok.. So now approximately 3200/5000 (thanks to spoofer bugging me each night) without any overclock hacks..
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I've been confused on where Niantic was taking Ingress in the future and then this event happens and I'm even more confused. Many can't even participate in over clocking and it has nothing to do with the game. What's the purpose of it anyway?
data, Niantic wants to build their database. What better way to get data then to throw an event... (which we've all been begging for all year) And we can complain all day long about scanning and how we will or won't do them, but when it comes to medals in our scanner, most of us will set aside almost any complaint to make sure we don't miss a new medal...
So here we are, Niantic clearly not working with each game to make sure it works well. Not only does the Ingress team release features at a beta stage, they release events at a beta stage as well, lol. Oh, you want VPS activated portals in your town, you will need to figure out how to enable them, which you won't be able to use your in-game login, so anything you do in the wayfarer app won't count towards your in-game stats. Oh, you figured out how to get into the wayfarer app, well, even if you can figure out how to get enough scans, our servers will struggle with the load and it will take several days or longer to actually get more VPS enabled portals in your town. Oh wait, you have some VPS enabled portals in your town? That's cool, except, our overclock feature is still in beta testing, so it could work for you, but also, it might not, so you'll need to learn how to read the glyphs upside down or mirrored.....
Yeah this event should been in mid summer not december... impossible scan and verify in dark the few times i tried ☹️
i have the badge and will not even bother the highest tier lol
I'm at over 2600 from 90% captures/mods. A little OC sprinkled in, but mostly just from getting a calibrated scan in here or there (ie 10 points). Currently waiting for decay, since even though locally we switched to capping with L1 gear, the other faction still hasn't seem to of noticed. sigh
I have a friend who is on holiday in Chile - pretty sure it is mid summer there...
sad there isn't a black tiers at 20k chronos point.
i think u missed my point
get out
Ingress is a global game, and it's mid summer in the southern hemisphere...
Not saying that Chronos is a perfect event, but that's mainly due to the general lack of overclockable portals for all players.
Calibrating portals at night in midwinter isn't impossible but it requires some light source, I got 5000 Chronos points mainly from overclocking portals after work.
I think you missed my point.
Complaining that it's not summer in December is very hemisphere-ist. Personally I'm in the cold, dark, wet UK and it's not that much fun doing Ingress in December or January. But if we always did everything in June then the Australians in this forum would have the right to complain.
10% of the world lives in the Southern hemisphere. Same problems when we had the summer XM recharger event.
A bright flashlight seems to work but yeah, probably looking weird enough doing scans.
Well we have street lights even if it's outside the US. No need to run around with flashlights. LOL.
No self-respecting Ingress agent should be afraid of looking weird. We're all weird here.
Ouch. You be careful out there. This weekend I'm somewhere where it will be awesome to reach 10 Celsius.
Finished this one yesterday. Lots of driving around, deploying mods, ect. 5k meh.
Next time before having an event, make sure agents have the ability to participate in the way you designed this contest. Else they will just drive around to do this event. I'm sure based on the lack of responses in the past by Ingress employees this too will fall on deaf ears. Similar to Chicago.
I'm sure, in some ways, this was a successful event for Niantic. They got agents using the overclock hack, scanning and using the wayfarer app. Obviously all of this is still at a beta release level, so it wasn't perfect. But I imagine most of the events we'll see in 2024 will cater towards Niantic "forcing" us to work for them in order to earn more medals. Welcome to the future of Ingress.
I still think scanning should have some points to this. Even if it was limited to 1 point max.
and using the wayfarer app. Obviously all of this is still at a beta release level, so it wasn't perfect.
I have bad news for you buddy
TL;DR No Wayfarer app anymore soon™
congrats u did good
Yet they say they will focus on an app for scanning which really seemed what the current app does anyway. There's really nothing Wayfarer in the current version.
Operation Chronos should be renamed Operation Failure. Now there’s no way to activate Overclock!!!
Lucky you have enough wayspots around for you to do that.
Many others have to use OC, and many more do not have devices that can do it, devices they own are quite capable of OC
I got the impression that everyone at Niantic are not taking responsibility, yet talk up about VPS as the best thing for AR.
It is not being utilized to its fullest. Even Ingress's implementation could do a lot more.
We don't know what Brian's plan is.
Lightship dev team
Wayfarer dev team
Ingress dev team
Pokémon Go dev team
These all have product managers/directors and you'd expect that there PMs would have weekly or even, monthly meetings about what is planned, and how the wayfarer and Lightship dev teams can assist.
For some reason there’s a backlog of VPS activations…
I already knew where the overclock portals in my neighborhood were because I look at the scanner when I play. Do other agents not do that?
Northern Summer is, almost without a doubt, the busy season for Ingress.
If a company is scheduling special events to maintain high participation numbers, they're going to schedule them during slow seasons.
This event is probably happening in December because December is a lousy time to play for most agents. Agents needed a push to play more.
You can look at your scanner all you want for a very long time but that doesn't help when overclock portals in your neighbourhood are very rare to non-existant or located in really out of the way locations where you would only really stumble upon them by happenstance.
You may find this of some use
https://oc-map.ingress.wiki
Nobody wants AR.
NOBODY WANTS AR.
That said, AR ingress loot boxes when?
I actually can do OC from WC, bio it's quite a bad idea))) also it's limited OC due to new AR model.. It's kinda boring to waste time for such small number, and If I understand correct OC is counted only if all glyphs are ok.. So now approximately 3200/5000 (thanks to spoofer bugging me each night) without any overclock hacks..