Why am I here?

So, why do you play Ingress?

I started because I got into Pokemon Go before it was officially released. My daughter downloaded a cracked copy. She quit shortly thereafter. I did a search and found out about Niantic and their "other" game.

I joined the Greens, it's my favorite colour (still is, sorry teammates).

I got to level 9, very exciting. I still didn't know about glyph hacking.

I was trying to learn but my teammates weren't very helpful. The other team were very helpful......

So I switched. My former teammates decided to punish me and made my nearby portals stronger and weaponized them.

My new teammates taught me strategy and I got good. Too good. I took it too seriously. I burned out and made enemies of former friends.

Now, I play because I have portals that need keeping alive.

The constant bickering and rivalry, between people that IRL might be friends, sickens me and Niantic just doesnt listen. I've removed myself from all the chats, but the game just isn't what it was. I'd be perfectly happy paying for it if it was like Harry Potter or Pokemon, but for some reason Niantic doesn't want to emulate their success.

Despite hearing how retention figures are so much better now, I have seen multiple people start, and disappear.

We are a dying breed in my area. There is approximately 1 agent for every 30 thousand people here. And we only have 150k or so in my region....

I'm just waiting for the day I just can't be bothered to farm for cubes and let everything die and that will be it for me. Ingress will be something I did. I'm fed up of bad attitudes, being ignored and it just simply not being fun anymore. Agent Muddymuppet, over and very soon to be out.

Comments

  • How can Niantic fix toxic people in your community?

  • i play to get my black sojourner.

  • I had the game on my phone, didn't really know how to play but managed to submit a portal and get it approved. Was about five years ago. Realized a friend of mine (older then me by at least 2 decades) was playing it and had many many points. I figured if he could figure the game out I could too. 5 years later still playing. It geniunely gets me out of my house doing things and socializing with people I would have never met if I didn't actually try to learn how to walk.

  • ExploderiExploderi ✭✭✭
    edited September 2019

    A former colleague of mine got me to try a strange-sounding game about five years ago. I played causally by myself for a couple of months, until he managed to get me to try the social aspect too and join the local community. That turned out to be surprisingly fun and even though I'm using the scanner maybe a dozen minutes on a typical day instead of hours these days, I have no intention to quit anytime soon.

  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    I started because LARP had burned me out. In a lot of respects Ingress is a LARP with virtual geocaching thrown on. Putting fields together that make bafs a non-starter is great, taking down fields satisfying having someone else's back when things go nutso, puts a smile on my face.

  • I came into Ingress recently. I arrived because I saw the Ingress anime on Netflix. I thought that the concept was impossibly cool. The thought of making my mark on the world while helping unseen forces fight the forces of evil was exciting. So I installed Ingress Prime onto my phone. I figured that regardless of whether I liked it or not, It would motivate me to exercise more. I could take a day that I have off and play Ingress. So, that's what I've been doing.

    The community where I am is super friendly. In fact, someone tried to recruit me as soon as I made my first XM field. I like to play solo, so I declined the offer. But, it made me feel welcome to the game.

    Personally, I really like to play a support roll in Ingress. For instance, I love to enter territory full of Enlightened portals and turn them all blue at the end of the day. (Although, once I learned that higher level enemy portals give out high level rewards, my desire to knock down every opposing portal has waned greatly.)

    I love to take out that central hub where all those opposing fields meet.

    I love attaching my resos to a friendly portal to boost that portal's strength (I'm Landeleren, and I'm helping!) I love it when I see higher level Resistance agents use my portals as the basis for their own XM fields. I love utilizing my equipment as efficiently and strategically as possible. For instance, if I'm making a level 4 portal farm, I'll try to deploy my resonators so that the portal level exactly equals (8 * 4 = 32,) with 4 weak slots so another high level agent can capitalize on upgrading my portal. Or, I'll capture a portal for my faction and use level 1 resos configured so it's a pain to take them off. (Although, now that I'm always hitting the inventory cap I've been burning through my inventory a little faster.) I love doing impossible things, like taking out an unshielded level 7 resonator with 50 or so level 1 xmp pea shooters.

    I also love the story aspect of the game. I love the idea that there are forces at work, and the players are fighting them. I love watching the media fragments that drop from portals. It feels like I'm participating in a worldwide D&D campaign (although I never played D&D, I imagine this is what it would feel like.) Although, looking at the Dunraven videos, the storytelling a times is... eh. Although I didn't watch all the Dunraven videos yet. And I think that the storytelling is getting better with nemesis introduced.

    Not to mention, I love to enter a new area and make my mark there. I'll take down some opposing portals and leave my name in their place. Or, I'll upgrade some friendly portals, or make a new portal from a gray portal. I can imagine locals asking "Landeleren? Who's that?" Plus, I'll gain some keys that proved I was in the area. That encourages me to visit new areas.

    Oh, and, I'm getting some exercise in too, so that's good.

    So yeah, I'm enjoying Ingress so far. My guess is I'll eventually tire of it soon like I've gotten tired of every other game I played. But, I may as well enjoy it while I'm playing it.

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