Farewell Redacted - Hello Prime - Thank You NIA

MM207AMM207A ✭✭✭
edited October 2019 in General

I was going to start this post another way, and then this weekend happened.

This weekend the CA ENL decided to send redacted off the way we welcomed Ingress with a gigafield. We worked long and hard to find portals and a field that would take advantage of the last moments of Redacted. We sent people hours from home and managed to throw up a beautiful field that covered 95% of CA. Sadly, we all knew the field would only last until a spoofer hit it, but we still enjoyed this one last field on Redacted. Hell, we even named the field "Viking Funeral." As expected, our field was spoofed at 1:15 am, and the account was quickly banned.

Here is where I get to the unexpected part - thanks to the coordination with Res Vanguards (names redacted) NIA put the field back up 17 hours after it was torn down. It took many people - from @ATECH8700  and  @greenlantern64  for helping clean up links across the spoofed lane in the north to the hero of the day  @TMoneyistheOne  for completing a 5-hour drive to Tecopa, CA to drop the last links crossing the tainted lane. At 6:47 pm PT NIA Gamemaster re-established the field and to me signaled a win for all players.

I have been a vanguard for two years, a player advocate for longer and today more than any other day I was struck by the changes NIA has made for the better. This isn't just about a field; this is a moment that NIA threw up a **** against spoofers. A moment the player in the field realized that their hard work and effort meant something and that NIA recognized the effort they put in.

I get the game isn't perfect - I see it every day and the loss of redacted is hard but moments like this show that  @RedSoloCup  as our community rep and Brian Rose as the new producer are continuing to make improvements and listen to players. Tonight, I watched local communities light up out of shock and joy to see NIA restore a field. This is an excellent welcome to prime - a moment to start fresh and make this game the way it should be; competitive but with a way to neutralize cheating.

Thanks, NIA for doing the right thing, Thank you Resistance VG's for working with and supporting this. Thank you, agents, for your never say die attitude. I sleep under a green field tonight, and I am content.

#ScrewSpoofers #CheatersNeverWin

Comments

  • Unfortunately, we have spoofers plaguing the game. Unfortunately, we have real players that knowingly take advantage of spoofer's work, and refuse to do the right thing, even when asked nicely. It takes both factions to keep the game on track. What I like about today is that the community game together and NIA was responsive - together. Hopefully, this is a continuing "threesome" for the growing future. Thank you all who play by the rules and the personal ethics. In this f

  • I’m a fan of Prime. As much as I miss the art style of Redacted, this is a step in the right direction. I like how much quicker I can do things on 2.0.

    I sent off redacted with me cleaning the green from most of Shawnee, Oklahoma.

  • KulerammeKuleramme ✭✭
    edited October 2019

    Although improved, anti-spoofing efforts are far from perfect. NIA needs to implement full transactional rollback for all activities taking advantage of spoofed lanes, including removing any gained AP and agent stats earned crossing those lanes. This need to be fully automated (including re-linking/fielding based on logs instead of having to rely on agent-submitted reinstatement requests) and executed quickly after spoof has been determined. Combine that with better spoof detection or smarter procedures to verify if something is spoof or not. Only when the effort and cost is too high compared to the gains of the spoof we can expect less spoofing. I don't really care if unknowing agents gets a few stats rolled back due to reinstatements like described - it is negligible in the big picture. Doing it this way would also remove the current need of gentleman's agreements about not crossing spoofed lanes and all the fighting involved with that.

  • Good times with redacted. Hard sacrifices where made what with long km links destroyed. Many a portal was flipped to bring us this 25M MU. CA ENL Strong-er together.

    Godspeed with Prime, to all!

  • True. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy. Fighting ghost is what factions do well together! 😆😁

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