@GorillaSapiens At a few of the Feb. 29th Hexathlons, some of the sites had an extra challenge to get a Tessera (or multiple in some places). The Tesserae are part of the Nemesis storyline that is part of the storyline side of Ingress. The code with the Link Amp was part of that challenge and I believe was only available to the few people who completed the challenge.
The site is a tight six-portal frack farm, one that gets used regularly. Everyone's an old pro who's done this a million times before. Everyone knows the routine and it's always the same, sometimes a bit too much so.
"OK, everything's bumped. Everything's modded except there's one slot left on the center portal. What should we do with it?"
"Ito-?"
"Rare multihack?"
"We could..." "What about..." It's the same discussion every time. Even the hardest of hardcore players will cap out and optimize their inventory before they burn out the farm. And yet the conversation is always the same.
Hosette pokes at her phone while everybody else discusses the ideal strategy for scribbling in the margins, then rejoins the conversation. "We're good. I handled it."
VRLA were never designed to be a regularly used item.
Back in 2013, they were specifically introduced for one purpose only. Linking to Hawaii. They could be renamed "Pacific Ocean Link Amps" and they'd be more accurate in their description of use.
SBUL's are good, and yeah, might be stronger than their 5x link range multiplier (not 6x) needs to be, but they definitely play a key role in offshore links. They unfortunately won't get you to Hawaii from New Zealand or Japan.
EDIT: At the time it was "Hawaii from any direction". SBUL coming out later meant that you could link to Hawaii from the US coast then.
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@GorillaSapiens At a few of the Feb. 29th Hexathlons, some of the sites had an extra challenge to get a Tessera (or multiple in some places). The Tesserae are part of the Nemesis storyline that is part of the storyline side of Ingress. The code with the Link Amp was part of that challenge and I believe was only available to the few people who completed the challenge.
It's a good sign though. I had feared that, with the nerfing of the Quantums, they would be gone forever.
Another passcode from last saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Resistance decoded and secured the Buenos Aires live drop Tessera!
TESSERA Round 7 - Yuri Alaric Nagassa
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/9226/tessera-round-7-yuri-alaric-nagassa#latest
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I had feared that, with the nerfing of the Quantums, they would be gone forever.
I can't even get rid of the pile I have right now 🤣
I am sure someone from the resistance would be glad to take those off your hands. 😂
Well, you could get rid of them... it wouldn't be hard... to just use them up... for no reason at all...
The site is a tight six-portal frack farm, one that gets used regularly. Everyone's an old pro who's done this a million times before. Everyone knows the routine and it's always the same, sometimes a bit too much so.
"OK, everything's bumped. Everything's modded except there's one slot left on the center portal. What should we do with it?"
"Ito-?"
"Rare multihack?"
"We could..." "What about..." It's the same discussion every time. Even the hardest of hardcore players will cap out and optimize their inventory before they burn out the farm. And yet the conversation is always the same.
Hosette pokes at her phone while everybody else discusses the ideal strategy for scribbling in the margins, then rejoins the conversation. "We're good. I handled it."
Given that they're non-replaceable, I'll only place them when needed at purpose, but they're rarely needed.
And that's why it is my believe that SBUL should get a nerf, like a x4 distance instead of x6, just to get al VRLA back into the game.
Right now they lost most of their value.
It might be an interesting C.O.R.E. feature to give one out with their loadout once per year on the anniversary of their subscription.
VRLA were never designed to be a regularly used item.
Back in 2013, they were specifically introduced for one purpose only. Linking to Hawaii. They could be renamed "Pacific Ocean Link Amps" and they'd be more accurate in their description of use.
SBUL's are good, and yeah, might be stronger than their 5x link range multiplier (not 6x) needs to be, but they definitely play a key role in offshore links. They unfortunately won't get you to Hawaii from New Zealand or Japan.
EDIT: At the time it was "Hawaii from any direction". SBUL coming out later meant that you could link to Hawaii from the US coast then.