Am I missing something obvious?
Hi All,
Just noticed yesterday a strange activity in the COMM. Upon closer examination, it seems he was continuously capturing a group of four portals with a rate of 5 times per minute per portal (a total of 20 captures per minute) for more than 20 minutes. At the same time, there was not a notice in either COMM or IITC about somebody destroying the resonators on these portals.
Any idea how is that possible? I thought that even if there was an agent of the opposite faction destroying the portals, that should have been visible in IITC at least.
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There's another account of the opposing faction destroying. The actions are too fast to all register. Scroll up and see, you might catch it
Still shifty
Not denying that.
We've seen this before. It's definitely not legit, and should be reported.
@az32612 The destroy messages still register in that situation even if not every one of them. You get at least one every 3 or for destroys.
Indeed. I also did an experiment today and tried capturing as fast as possible a cluster of neutral portals. Managed to single-deploy 6 in about 30 seconds, on a high-end device with excellent connectivity. This gives me even more confidence that 20 captures per minute are not possibl, let alone sustainable for almost half an hour without some kind of trickery. And the lack of destroy messages smells on foul play as well.
The agent in question is currently lvl 15 with, with a single Onyx (recharge) and a platinum liberator - I guess he's trying to use itas a the second required for lvl.16. Will file a report today and I hope(but with NIA there's almost no hope) an action will be taken. There are quite a few of us left and such unsanctioned behaviour only drives away even the most persistent ones.
was there nothing on comm about another agent that did actions on the portals in picture? that seems impossible otherwise.. either he is win trading with someone or he has another account of opposite team either way this needs to be reported.
There was initially. That's a clear indication of the automated nature of the actions. You see their first destroy and everything else after that is so close together that it's amalgamated. Scroll to the time where the first attacks on that set of portals happened.
Thanks for the information! Indeed that's the case, 4 destroys from an agent from the opposing faction, not known to our community, did register in the COMM:
I got the default reply from NIA that "action has been taken". Both reported accounts are still active.
And just yesterday our friend did it again, clocking in ~1100 captures on 4 portals in two hours. Not a single minute in that period without at least 7 captures. With all bots/automation not working after Prime🙄, I'm somewhat concerned about his health, did he manage to simultaneously capture and keep himself hydrated? Besides, tendovaginitis is a real danger and these same fingers and palms are supposed to last you for life.
or he is using a bot, that doesnt sound very normal to do that by yourself.....
Is there a chance this is multiple people playing under the same agent at the same time in the same place?
Is such scenario controlled by the system?