So long, and thanks for all the AP
Last week I hit 500,000,000 lifetime AP and did my third recursion. I am now a 0 AP Level 1 agent, and retiring from Ingress. I started and end Enlightened.
My goals for retirement were the following:
* Achieve all onyx medals that weren't dependent on travel (done)
* 85% overal capture-to-visit ratio (only managed 83.83%. Would need roughly a thousand more new captures and no visits to meet 85%. Oh well.)
* Be in Top 100 Global Agents (in Top 100 since 2017, retired at #72)
* "Clear my orbit" - capture all portals in my vicinity. Of the nearest 10,000 portals, I have captured all but 22. Seventeen are on gov-only land, and some others unreachable except by boat. So 99.78% is good as I'm gonna get.
So I didn't quite hit them all, but the half billion AP mark was too good to pass up, and 2^29 (536870912) was too far away with my decreasing play availability.
Some stats:
Level 8: 2013-02-12
Recursions: 3
Total Lifetime AP: 500,000,000
Longest Hacking streak if I hadn't visited the networkless Amazon rainforest for 5 days: 2346 (6.4 years)
Number of Piranha eaten in Amazon rainforest: 4 - totally worth breaking my streak
MU assists: OrlandoGloom, ChrisMotus
Play style: heavily build vs destroy
Hardest medal: Illuminator (largest field: 22k MU, average field size 53 MU)
Ingress Google Plus communities moderated/owned: 9 (I miss you, G+)
Months maintaining the Top 100 AP Ingress sheet: 39 (3.25 years)
Original leveling-related badges:
Abstained: Recruiter
Platinum: Trekker, Pioneer
Onyx: All the rest
I've had a great time playing Ingress, and meeting folks of both factions online and IRL. Thanks for years of fun, Niantic.
And to all agents, Happy Hacking.
Comments
so long and thank you for your contributions to the game and to the elite AP list, who will maintain it now?
I'll commit to doing it next month, but now's the time to have other folks take it on. If anyone is interested, go read https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/1009/looking-for-top-100-ap-volunteers#latest
We've got one agent who's been gathering stats for a few rounds now, but no one has directly edited the sheet itself, so I'd want to go over how that works.
those bro-fist looks so cool, congrats
So long and thanks for the Piranha!
Well done. I can only hope to achieve such a feat in the long run. I just recently celebrated getting rid of all my gold badges.
Yeah, I made a rule that I would do missions in any random order I encountered them and not limit myself to making the scanner pretty. But I couldn't pass up the chance to do a Pride banner for my sign out...
Very cool way to retire!
I love your reference to the hitchikers guide!
Maybe another quotation would fit your gaming...
"The first 5 billions years was boring, but the rest...." Marvin.
Extremely impressive, we'll miss you for sure! Out of curiosity, is it for a game-related reason or personal?
Thanks daethnir! You and your daughters once dropped me a huge amount of gear when I was a lowly L7 agent in Twin Lakes, WI. Was great meeting you then, happy trails!
I've done what I wanted to do. Been harder to find the time, of late, and if I'm playing I want to do it properly. So seemed to be the right time.
We remember! And you taught us we could drop keys and hack to pick up extras, back before glyph hacking 'more' was a thing! Hope you're still keeping things green out that way.
I will miss the pings from you each month for the top AP list. I can definitely respect your decision. Nice job on the even 500M stopping point!
If only two farewell addresses would deserve a drop the
scannermic at the end it would be definitely Obama's WHC speech and your post here. Thanks for your contributions to the game, the community and enjoy your well earned digital retirement plan.Congratulations! Your hard work and journey for so many years is a true challenge.