Met up with a group of 10 L8-16 resistance on Saturday to clear a particularly green section of the city. It's pretty ridiculous how you don't even have to stop walking to tear down portals and make them all L8Ls in a larger group. Farmed over 300 L8 XMPs too that day.

Of course, this raid upset the local ENL, so by Sunday the entire city was cleared of any RES portal. They just killed every single one. It's gotten a little better but ENL is still more active by far where I live.

I have all my medals for L9 and the ones for L10 are already in sight. Game is still super fun

R1CH

Netherlands10341 Posts

April 13 2015 14:36 GMT

#84

Our local ENL turned all of Utrecht green last week. 1000+ L8 portals. Was great for dirty farming

Silvana

3713 Posts

April 13 2015 17:24 GMT

#85

I was single handedly taking care of my whole town, deploying/modding/linking at my pace... until some high level RES came and destroyed half of my work just when I'm outta town with little connectivity T_T I will have so much work to (re)do when I come back...

Talaris

Switzerland753 Posts

April 26 2015 09:21 GMT

#86

As I am abroad alot due to work, and walking around in foreign cities definitely beats playing couch-potato in a hotel, I decided to give it a try too.

Just finished the tutorial, did some capturing/firing/hacking, got to lvl 2.

Some question that popped up:
- Whats with that message when you reach lvl 2, that you have to register with Jarvic to become a "trusted agent". Is that ingame-fluff or what do u need to send ur phone number for ??
- Is there a way to zoom more out on the map ? I can see approx the next ~100-300m, which resulted in me standing around (and checking map) alot (instead of walking around).
- Is it normal that you have a concentration of portals sometimes, and then nothing at all? I covered 6 portals in like 1,5km walking distance, then tried to find more and walked straight for ~30mins (so 2-3 km) and did not find any new portals.
Bad luck ? Or perhaps better map settings would help ?

- In general: is there are beginners guide out there ?

zatic

Zurich15358 Posts

April 26 2015 14:50 GMT

#87

There is really no good beginners guide. The tutorial is crap and pretty much useless.

Use this to get a look at the portal situation around you before you head out: https://www.ingress.com/intel

This is your one stop for all things ingress: http://www.ingress.tv/

Other than those two links read the thread, I started as a complete noob earlier in the thread as well and I am now on my way to level 10

R1CH

Netherlands10341 Posts

April 28 2015 10:34 GMT

#88

This is one of the better tutorials / guides out there: http://www.ingressbootcamp.com/book.php

The phone registration thing is for account verification, probably to help stop botting.

salle

Sweden5554 Posts

April 28 2015 12:08 GMT

#89

Ohhh thanks, this means I won't have to ask you as many noob questions, hopefully.

Silvana

3713 Posts

May 13 2015 21:31 GMT

#90

Just got my first threats of violence over COMM. Such things cannot be taken lightly, specially in a country like mine. Unfortunately I can't go to the Police and expect them to do anything, even if I manage to make them understand how the game works. Now I don't feel like playing anymore

Why is people so crazy, violent and stupid? I haven't talked to anyone, never. I just play the game. And got insulted and threatened by a bunch of people because I own most of the city portals. Why????

/rant

R1CH

Netherlands10341 Posts

May 13 2015 21:53 GMT

#91

Sorry to hear that

. You can report this kind of thing to Niantic via https://support.google.com/ingress/answer/2808360?contact=1# (click Contact Us). There will always be a few bad people out there, usually it's all just talk but with Ingress there's a chance you could meet other players too. Maybe try to find someone on your team to go out with in the future.

salle

Sweden5554 Posts

May 14 2015 11:25 GMT

#92

I saw this on reddit the other day. It's scary how upset some people get over this game, I mean, just rebuilding stuff is easy enough.

Anyhow.... since I moved to the Netherlands the Wizard has taken me as an apprentice and I'm now level 7, there was 2 weeks with AP boost and it also helped me along a lot.

zatic

Zurich15358 Posts

May 14 2015 11:28 GMT

#93

The week with AP boost was insane, what a massacre. And I was out of town in an all blue city for half of it

Level 10 now just need AP .... Should have all medals secured all the way up to L16 but the AP keeps me back so much.

R1CH

Netherlands10341 Posts

May 21 2015 19:34 GMT

#94

First time arranging to meet up with someone to pick up some items... and it turns out he lives literally across the street in scanner range

zatic

Zurich15358 Posts

June 03 2015 12:54 GMT

#95

Got a little more into the grand scheme game. Tonight my local RES group will help with Lightman shard #38. The stories by now is really are close to secret agent movies haha.

Yesterday RES got the shard from where I live into a US army base not far which is firmly in RES hands. So it looked safe for the night. But of course last night 2am ENL agents somehow infiltrated the base and got the shard out, which is now in the middle of nowhere: https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=49.139422,7.763695&z=13&pll=49.138946,7.759824

Since tomorrow is a public holiday there is expected to be an epic fight over it tonight 2am. Not sure yet what I'll be assigned to, might just be clearing links around where I live. The hit squats going in for the shard are pretty hilarious, with dedicated deployers, shielders, bursters

salle

Sweden5554 Posts

June 03 2015 13:18 GMT

#96

Are you going to come to Utrecht for the Anomaly on the 19th, Zatic?
(EDIT: For reasons I'm not going to be here then)

zatic

Zurich15358 Posts

June 03 2015 13:21 GMT

#97

On June 03 2015 22:18 salle wrote:
Are you going to come to Utrecht for the Anomaly on the 19th, Zatic?
(EDIT: For reasons I'm not going to be here then)

Huh you know what I still have that weekend unplanned. Need to double check with the miss but this could happen actually.

R1CH

Netherlands10341 Posts

June 03 2015 13:57 GMT

#98

The Utrecht anomaly is on the 20th, if you decide to go there's registration at http://anomaly-utrecht.nl/

TerribleTrioJon

United States57 Posts

November 09 2015 07:04 GMT

#99

L16 Resistance from Virginia, US, reporting in. Sorry for bumping, but just ran a search and realized I missed this entirely. You guys still playing? How is everyone's progress? I have some friends who run ops over in the Netherlands who's IGNs might be recognized.

zatic

Zurich15358 Posts

November 09 2015 07:15 GMT

#100

Still playing, it's as much fun as ever. Just came back from a safari trip in Namibia/Botswana/Zimbabwe that allowed me to created some bigger fields: https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=-19.906219,19.654541&z=7
It's pretty awesome to have fields you can see from space

Now it's back to regular close quarter combat in my hometown. At least that gives more AP.