245 days redacted off-line
At least 245 is what my hacking streak says. I joined after Prime day - so redacted never was an option.
I gained nearly 20 million AP and work towards level 15
organised one FS and visited 4 more
been at an anomaly and took part in the Antwerp world record Starburst as UK South-East coast coordinator
have made many new friends since starting to play
Reading some other threads I get the feeling I shouldn’t even have started without redacted.
It would have been a shame if I didn’t.
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I like this post. I started playing Ingress a few months ago. Seemed like a fun game and ended up getting into it and reaching 10mil AP, all using Prime version. People keep trying to tell me how Prime is awful but I just don''t see it. It works fine for me and I can use all the in-game features just like everyone else.
Recently I discovered I actually had access to Redacted. I created my account several years ago even though I ended up never playing (0 AP) because there were no portals next to me. I decided to try Redacted to see what was so good about it and it honestly just felt like a downgrade. Linking is painfully slow, fields (especially layered) are super confusing to me (I like the clean lines and fields in Prime) and not having inventory count in the main screen just meant I kept having to open my inventory every few hacks.
Anyway just want to say that the type of toxicity that I have seen in forums about Prime is not healthy to the game, especially with exaggerations about it being unplayable when it clearly isn't.
Prime needs work, but I also agree that its not as bad as it has been made out to be. I flat out prefer prime for some activities over redacted. Yes, it does crash without reason sometimes and takes forever to load, but I think those things will improve. The original scanner improved over time, give Prime a chance.
I've seen comments along the lines of "I've tried Prime for a day and it is horrible". The problem with trying it for a day is that you are then still comparing it to Redacted. Prime is not Redacted, use it like Redacted and it will be frustrating.
Use Prime for 2-3 weeks to:
and Redacted will become the frustrating client.
Sure Prime needs to improve, especially the hangs are frustrating, but comparing the current version to the beta of about ten months ago... it has improved so much. Niantic has listened to the input of the beta testers and keeps improving it.
Wow, a thread dull of reasonable well thought out posts. Who knew it was possible?
I have started playing Ingress at its very beginning, in January 2013 when it was still in closed beta. I switched to Prime in December last year and with a few exceptions haven't used Redacted since. Some things still have to be fixed but overall, I currently enjoy gameplay in Prime more than when switching back to Redacted.