Trespassing Reporting

I'm aware Niantic is trying to stop trespassing but is there an express to report this behavior. A field was taken down tonight after 3 agents from the other faction went into a FEDERAL Wildlife Refuge after hours and took down the portal.


Obviously these agents have no respect for the game, the rules, the laws and obviously could care less that there is potential for fines and possible imprisonment for entering after hours that were posted at the entrance it's over 1.5 KM to the nearest accessible road during the hours that they trespassed. The hours that agents put in is simply ruined by some cheaters.

How can we stop this behavior?

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  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019

    How did they enter the area ? those portals should maybe get removed then? any portal that is hard reached there will always be people who will tresspass in order to take down fields.. maybe try finding other portals ? Because niantic cant know if someone has access to an private area or not so how report those people if u can enter it ?

  • @1valdis There is no special permission and I inquired about this pre-op with a US Fish and Wildlife Officer. I guess I should have tipped him off to wait for them last night. Another agent was legit and drove the 3+ hours to get to the other anchors, that was fair IMHO.

    @mortuus My guess is they parked in a parking lot and then hiked around the the gates. The portals are accessible during daylight hours (with some exclusions). They are legit portals, no different than portals in other parks or like on military bases. There are several portals that are not only closed during certain hours but also require admission to get access, and those are legit as well. For example portals at Six Flags are legit and they are closed for days/weeks at a time and require admission.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    okay i see.. but then they arent cheating if they are at the portals.. cheating is when u are not at the portal and spoot from home or something.. it doesnt sound like they cheat to me ..

  • EvilSuperHerosEvilSuperHeros ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can report them as much as you want, but Niantic won't do anything about it. That's up to the cops or rangers or whatnot. Niantic doesn't govern the open/closing times of places with portals. That's up to the agents themselves. Usually local groups will help manage it with their local agents. Then again, if local agents aren't in their groups, not much can be done.


    Do you know for sure the agents in question did not have a guide or park ranger with them? It's happened before. It will happen again.


    What you can do, is be better than those who trespassed and play by the rules. At least you know you played correctly and within the law.

  • The agents that arrived on site to take down field talked to the park ranger and got the ok.

  • Well, my account (I have only ever had one) never got banned. Strange though when I try to look at your profile in ingress it says "agent no longer in system"

  • Yeah. I got a temp ban for calling out a known spoofer in comm. After my couch was spoofed. Classic Niantic.


  • The federal laws for trespass are obscure but they are significant. I have a massive problem with agents jumping over gates at night.


    Too bad law enforcement staff can't have access to google map data so they can see if someone is wandering around where they should not be at. And at the times they should not be there.

    The wildlife need sleep too. Without human lights scaring them.

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