I started playing Google's ARG phone game, Ingress late last year. If you aren't familiar with it, you use your phone's GPS to walk around and interact with virtual objects that are overlayed on a map around your location. There are two factions (Enlightened and Resistance) fighting to control the objects (portals) which are typically found on landmarks, public parks, famous buildings, etc. You level up through performing almost any interactions in the game, the only requirement is that there are portals near you. Even if there aren't any in your area, you can submit your own, but there's currently quite a big queue of submissions so they take a while.
A map of the game world in Utrecht. So much green T.T
It's pretty fun, it's a great way to get out of the house and play a game at the same time, and a good way to meet new people. It used to be invite only but it's now available without an invite on both iPhone and Android.
Because TL's logo is blue I naturally joined the Resistance. I just reached Level 8 today (maximum level requirement for some items) so I'm excited to see what's in store now that I'm part of the "big boys" club . I try to keep the territory around TLHQ nice and blue, it's pretty active here in the Netherlands with things switching sides quite often.
If you're interested in playing I can also send you an invite link, they recently added an achievement category for invites so this will help me in the game . Just PM me your email if you'd like one.
Haha yeah, I've definitely noticed my battery drains quickly while playing since the screen and GPS are on a lot of the time. I have an external battery pack that I'm sure I'll need to use at some point once I get more into it!
I tried this when I got an invite from my friend. I lived in a small town and while the portals and landmarks existed, there was probably only about 5 or so people who played and it quickly died. Now I spend a lot of time in a tourist trap so maybe I can kill some time
If you're interested in playing I can also send you an invite link, they recently added an achievement category for invites so this will help me in the game . Just PM me your email if you'd like one.
Any other players here on TL?
HA!!! so those are your true intentions! haha.
I played ingress a while ago, but i didn't really get it. I never really understood the "story", since even when it was invite only, it seemed to have progressed very far so i didn't know what was really happening, so i just did a few missions, and then uninstalled. I'm still on some g+ and facebook communities about the game though, maybe i'll check it out again, any tips?
A15 Resistance from Ontario Canada reporting in... awesome game. Anomalies are great to participate in and I've met some pretty awesome people during my play time. Being a part of massive field operations is an absolute blast.
Also... battery packs are almost essential if you enjoy playing a lot .
Glad you're having fun with it! Around my area, the roving Ingress bands make it much less enjoyable. It's impossible to maintain local walking distance routes because there are multiple groups of people who spend hours every night driving around the area clearing faction spots. I don't love the game enough to waste time and gas in a caravan with strangers.
I joined it a few years ago when it was just "stand next to existing node and press buttons". However, I live in an area where not much was going on and I seemed to join the side that already had total dominance over the area, so levelling up was slow.
Then my phone's GPS decided not to work properly and that was it.
On February 26 2015 11:42 Kronen wrote: Glad you're having fun with it! Around my area, the roving Ingress bands make it much less enjoyable. It's impossible to maintain local walking distance routes because there are multiple groups of people who spend hours every night driving around the area clearing faction spots. I don't love the game enough to waste time and gas in a caravan with strangers.
To some degree having stuff destroyed is good since you get the most AP from building things. It can be disheartening seeing the fields you spent a couple of hours building get destroyed in under a day. Around me there are several areas inaccessible by car so I try to put my stronger portals there.
I know a couple of people who played this game way before they even got acquired by Google, considered getting into it but never actually. Maybe I should? R1CH seal of approval~
Hah I've been playing so much in the last 24 hours, finally took over my office building! It's quite nice here since I'm in a big, tech-friendly city, so there's a lot going on. Going to keep poking around until I get bored.
Just d/l'd it. Looks good on my big ass galaxy mega. Will get out tomorrow during errands and see what I can do with it (resistance btw). Thanks for the recommendation R1CH, looks like a lot of fun. ^_-
Apparently I had this installed on my last phone. DIdn't even know.
Sadly my phone's screen is too busted up for me to play it now, with much of the screen missing, and since I can't rotate it I can't read most of the messages displayed
On March 01 2015 02:39 Dagobert wrote: Voluntarily sending Google your GPS in realtime, along with a lot of other data presumably.
What could possibly go wrong?
*shrugs* Nothing that the NSA wouldn't know anyways - well, unless you are as interesting to find as e.g. Boris Nemtsov; then I'd refrain from playing Ingress.
So I have been playing the last 2 days. A few questions: - In my area there is less than 10% resistance. I feel outgunned. Is that normal? - Just now someone destroyed all the stuff I did over the past 5 hours within 10 minutes. Bot? - How does fighting really work? I can fire XMP bursters, but they only do 1% damage. I managed to take down 3 portals but it took like 20 minutes just standing there firing XMP until they were down. Is that really what it takes?
On March 01 2015 03:20 zatic wrote: So I have been playing the last 2 days. A few questions: - In my area there is less than 10% resistance. I feel outgunned. Is that normal? - Just now someone destroyed all the stuff I did over the past 5 hours within 10 minutes. Bot? - How does fighting really work? I can fire XMP bursters, but they only do 1% damage. I managed to take down 3 portals but it took like 20 minutes just standing there firing XMP until they were down. Is that really what it takes?
some areas just have insane dominance, but this is good because you get AP (aka xp) from hacking enemy portals only and not friendly ones, friendly ones are only good for linking (which does give sick AP tho) and items.
some people do gps cheating by installing apps that can make them fake their location, this is just a dbag move tho but it's possible you faced one of those. if you're low level though, (basically anything below 8) all your portals are super weak and easily taken down. it really doesn't take much to take down a portal once you hit level 8, unless the portal is one of those godmode portals with 8 level8 resos, a ton of shields and a ton of LINKS, links make the portals even more buff.
fighting as low level also sux, you have to take forever if you want to bring down a portal that's above your level, once you get to level 5 the bursters start dealing at least a little bit of dmg. as low lvl you can increase your dmg a bit by standing on top of the resonators themselves (basically doing a walk around the portal) and not aiming to be perfectly in the center. even if being in the center seems like the most reasonable thing at first.
I tried this today for the first time and really liked it. Surprised there was so many portals in my area!
There's a level 8 enemy who controls a lot of portals, with only one resonator each. Unfortunately the resos are level 7 so I can't take them down for now The good news is that there were a lot of untaken portals close to each other and I was able to take and even link some of them :D
But I see the level 8 guy didn't link his portals at all. Is linking really needed? Or useful at all?
I also added some level 1 resos on another guy's portal to link it to mine, I hope he doesn't mind
I am still somewhat confused but it's super fun. My city is also covered in Portals everywhere I go so always something to do.
How can you team up with someone? Is it just attacking the same portal together or can you actually form a gang or something? I have something like an Ingress date tomorrow with a fellow L3.
I am still somewhat confused but it's super fun. My city is also covered in Portals everywhere I go so always something to do.
How can you team up with someone? Is it just attacking the same portal together or can you actually form a gang or something? I have something like an Ingress date tomorrow with a fellow L3.
yeah, you can attack together, and then upgrade portals together. once you start putting down higher level resos, there's a limit on how many you can put down by yourself on a single portal. for example, once you hit level 5 you can only put down 2x level 5 resos on a single portal by yourself. for level 8, you can only put down a single lvl8 reso on a portal (this can be circumvented with viruses, but that's a different story). so to have a super full level 8x8 portal, you'd need a large group of 8 people that all are level 8.
MODS aka portal shields etc. also have a limit of 2 slots per user, so if you move around with a friend you can put down all 4 shields for example as opposed to just 2.
one important thing that took me a while to learn is that the spacing of the resonators is quite important. if you stand close on top of the portal when deploying resos they don't space out and create a 'campfire'. but if you move away from the portal to the edge and put down resonators, they space perfectly. way harder to hit for the opposing faction. also try holding down the finger on stuff like HACK and XMP FIRE and cool things will happen!
Lots of good advice above from Snute. Some things I'll add for new players...
Don't get discouraged. One of the biggest things to overcome in the early levels is a feeling of hopelessness. You can't take down enemy portals, whatever you put up will fall super easy. You can spend a few hours fully capturing and linking up a cluster of portals, and an enemy agent can come along and blow it all up in 5 minutes. I hope everyone is picking resistance, but for either side, even if you are severely outnumbered, that just gives you more to do and you can level up faster. There are many ways to play the game and over time you will figure out your own play style. Some people are attackers, some people are builders, some just like to grind for medals. The game is really as deep as you want it to be.
Use the intel map www.ingress.com/intel to look at any area in the world. It's a great way to see whats in your area that you'll never see on the scanner. You can also filter by portal level so you can find high density areas of low level portals to take out to get AP faster. Also look for portals without shields. The lower level you are, if you come across a high level shielded portal the most you'll ever do is tickle it.
Alright I am L4 now and attacking actually does something now. Took down a few today.
I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields.
On March 02 2015 06:21 zatic wrote: Alright I am L4 now and attacking actually does something now. Took down a few today.
I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields.
Few things to consider:
- Portals must be fully deployed (all resonators out) and sufficiently charged - Must have the key to the target portal - Key is consumed when creating a link (this confused me for the longest time) - Hacking a portal doesn't always guarantee you getting a key - Links cannot be created under a control field - Links cannot cross existing links
On March 02 2015 05:59 Ghostcom wrote: Can someone please explain to me why I can hack portals of my own faction? I'm so confused by this game.
You won't get any XP for doing that, but you will get items. "Hacking" is basically like interacting with the portal. Enemy portals will zap you when you hack them, at higher portal levels you want to be hacking your own faction portals so you can get lots of items without losing all your XM.
On March 02 2015 06:21 zatic wrote: Alright I am L4 now and attacking actually does something now. Took down a few today.
I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields.
Few things to consider:
- Portals must be fully deployed (all resonators out) and sufficiently charged - Must have the key to the target portal - Key is consumed when creating a link (this confused me for the longest time) - Hacking a portal doesn't always guarantee you getting a key - Links cannot be created under a control field - Links cannot cross existing links
Aaaaaah didn't know keys are consumed by linking! This explains it.
Also today I found a stack of 20 portal keys just lying on the street. Did someone just drop them there? Why would someone do that?
On March 02 2015 08:06 Ghostcom wrote: So it is fine to hack my own faction portals? It doesn't come with any drawback?
Yep that's totally fine! The main thing you can do to "hurt" your own faction is make long links which block other links from being formed. When building and linking try to make the shortest links possible as this gets more links and thus stronger portals.
On March 02 2015 08:12 zatic wrote: Also today I found a stack of 20 portal keys just lying on the street. Did someone just drop them there? Why would someone do that?
Yes, you can drop any item and anyone else around can pick it up. There's an inventory cap of 2k items and keys can take up valuable slots, most likely someone visited your area and discarded the keys they picked up. Also if someone destroys a link, there's a chance that a key for one of the portals appears at either end of the link.
I would encourage newer players to take a look at the second list on this page https://www.ingress.com/events and see if there is a first saturday event near you. It's a good chance to meet local agents and they can pair you up with higher levels who can show you the ropes.
On March 02 2015 06:21 zatic wrote: Alright I am L4 now and attacking actually does something now. Took down a few today.
I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields.
Few things to consider:
- Portals must be fully deployed (all resonators out) and sufficiently charged - Must have the key to the target portal - Key is consumed when creating a link (this confused me for the longest time) - Hacking a portal doesn't always guarantee you getting a key - Links cannot be created under a control field - Links cannot cross existing links
Aaaaaah didn't know keys are consumed by linking! This explains it.
Hmm this still doesn't make sense to me. Today I captured a portal, got the key from it. There is another one about 100m off, I also got the key from that. There is nothing in the way between both. Both are fully deployed and charged, they have 0 and 1 existing links. Yet still it says "No linkable portals".
Another thing: Can I somehow permanently team up with people? I have been roaming around with friends but I would like to get notifications and stuff like that from them even when they are out hacking somewhere completely different.
I'm guessing there's a field over your area, you should definitely be able to link by the sounds of it. If there's a really big field, it's possible the client won't display it properly. Checking https://ingress.com/intel will give you a better idea, you can also simulate links between portals to check nothing is blocking it.
Must have been a temporary glitch, same link worked later. Yeah I used the Intel map to cross check. My area is pretty cool, there is basically a super strong Enlightened ring controlling most of the city and then a small pocket of Resistance in the center. I live right in the contested zone where no portal is up for more than a few hours. Great for leveling. Last night I managed to carve out a nice blue section with the help of some higher level Resistance who destroyed the stronger portals. Let's see if that lives until tonight. + Show Spoiler +
On March 03 2015 17:25 zatic wrote: Must have been a temporary glitch, same link worked later. Yeah I used the Intel map to cross check. My area is pretty cool, there is basically a super strong Enlightened ring controlling most of the city and then a small pocket of Resistance in the center. I live right in the contested zone where no portal is up for more than a few hours. Great for leveling. Last night I managed to carve out a nice blue section with the help of some higher level Resistance who destroyed the stronger portals. Let's see if that lives until tonight. + Show Spoiler +
We had a quite smiilar situation in Bergen when I started, with the town being mostly dominated by toads. It's completely switched around the last couple months however, with the downtown centre being coated in blue with l7 and l8 portals everywhere, and regional portal numbers for l8 staying around 140 for RES and 1-5 for ENL. Portals and fields usually stay for a while, unless it's along the light rail or bus lines. Those go down a few times a day.
If the toads are dominating your area though, i wouldn't expect any fields or lines to stay up for more than hours at most.
Question about ultra strikes: So from what I gather they can be used to drop shields from a portal when you stand right on top of the portal. I have tried this but it didn't do anything. Of course, my highest ultra is L5 and all the online demonstration are with L8 ultras. Does this only work with the highest level or is there some use for lower level ultras as well?
They have a very high chance at destroying mods, but it isn't guaranteed. Even L1s should work, positioning is very important though since there isn't much room for error with lower level ultrastrikes.
Man this game is amazing, thanks so much for introducing me R1CH!
Yesterday I raided a small village that had a big cluster of portals in the center. I used my ultras to take down the central church portal which connected 8 fields and a couple of additional links. Instant 10k AP. Then the owner of the portals actually came running across town to save his church. Too late, but he was super friendly about it, and we had a fun little chat about the game.
If you have high portal density areas near you it's very easy to level quickly. I hit level 8 in 12 days and I may be able to get my friend there just as fast, got him to 6 in 3 days.
On March 05 2015 11:50 CarltonBeener wrote: If you have high portal density areas near you it's very easy to level quickly. I hit level 8 in 12 days and I may be able to get my friend there just as fast, got him to 6 in 3 days.
Yeah, I am living right in the middle of the contested zone with hundreds of portals in walking distance. I am estimating I get up to 40k AP per hour of dedicated playing here. Now that I am actually able to combat that rate might even go up further.
I am still having trouble keeping my neighborhood blue though because there are too many L15 enlighteneds walking through tearing everything apart.
On March 05 2015 11:50 CarltonBeener wrote: If you have high portal density areas near you it's very easy to level quickly. I hit level 8 in 12 days and I may be able to get my friend there just as fast, got him to 6 in 3 days.
Yeah, I am living right in the middle of the contested zone with hundreds of portals in walking distance. I am estimating I get up to 40k AP per hour of dedicated playing here. Now that I am actually able to combat that rate might even go up further.
I am still having trouble keeping my neighborhood blue though because there are too many L15 enlighteneds walking through tearing everything apart.
If you haven't already, you should get in touch with the local Resistance. Working together with others will at least let you fight back more efficiently, and, given time, you might flip the situation like has happened here. :D
On March 05 2015 15:46 alukarD wrote: I totally don't get the game. A friendly explanation?
The game is played via an app on your mobile, using GPS location. Walking around in your town, keep your eyes open for street art, public ornamentation and areas of cultural or historical significance - these are usually portals in the game, which you can hack and capture if you're near enough. While hacking yields resources such as resonators for capturing and bursters for attacking, capturing a portal will let you link the portal to other portals also controlled by your team. Linking portals lets you create fields, which results in mind control fields giving Mind Units, or MU. MU is, more or less, the point system for the game score board.
And that's the short of it, really. You go around capturing portals and linking them to others, and attempt to capture the portals of the opposing team. It's an endless game of area control, more or less, and to me, at least, it's very appealing.
The long of it is that there's a lot more to the game than just capturing portals, but you'll get to that eventually if the basic concept intrigues you.
So I started on Thursday, after creating about 100 fields for a total of only 350 MU until yesterday, I finally made my first bunch of bigger fields, with 5 fields covering about 4,5k MU. That was awesome ^.^
RICH, I blame you for my lost spare time. But at the same time I'm probably losing some weight, in those 5 days I walked more then I usually do during a month :D
I started playing back in Beta..hit L15 a little while ago but i think I'm getting to the point where I'm getting bored. I am simply not a fan of the way check points work and while I realize doing an average over the course of the time might be a bit taxing on the servers its really the only thing that make sense. I really despise losing an entire cycle to one BAF over my city that I have to drive 1 hour to take down.
I did go Green though way back when...I MIGHT try to get the Obsidian Purifier badge to hit L16 before quitting but I still need something like 20000 resonator kills to manage this.
I did meet a bunch of cool people through this game though and going to the anomalies has always been a blast. I'll probably still play just for the anomalies because those really make the game for me.
On March 10 2015 20:10 Cascade wrote: Wait, you DRIVE an hour for this game!? I thought it should promote exercise, not carbon emissions... >_>
Linking fields over several hundreds of kilometers is somewhat challenging on foot....
Anyway, the game doesn't really promote any particular way to play. There is an achievement in the game for kilometers walked, but that's about it. It's just that in high density urban areas walking or cycling is the most efficient way to play.
On March 10 2015 20:10 Cascade wrote: Wait, you DRIVE an hour for this game!? I thought it should promote exercise, not carbon emissions... >_>
Linking fields over several hundreds of kilometers is somewhat challenging on foot....
Anyway, the game doesn't really promote any particular way to play. There is an achievement in the game for kilometers walked, but that's about it. It's just that in high density urban areas walking or cycling is the most efficient way to play.
most efficient way to play depends on your goal... To gain AP, yes... graveyards, and main attraction points with tons of portals are probably your target. But if you care about your cell, linking those 1-10 MU fields won't matter at all but suddenly those longer links, which are usually are anchored in much less dense areas are the important thing.
After a two week break I starting playing again this week. I should hit level 8 this weekend, and have the badges for level 9 pretty much all secured. My previous Guardian was destroyed just 2 days before Gold I have another one going now in a more remote location, that will hopefully survive the next week to get me the gold Guardian.
Recharger, Sojourner and Tracker make an easy 3 additional silvers for level 9.
I am studying the intel map all the time for opportunities to create a larger field, but my area is just soooo dense. In every direction there are friendly links blocking larger fields. Biggest one I got so far was 3440MU.
There are some people who go out of their way to destroy guardians so always be ready to recharge in the days leading up to a medal. My biggest field is only 56MU, I guess I need to go further outside of the city .
Have you been following any of the in game events like anomalies and shards? There's an anomaly in Hanover this weekend - https://plus.google.com/events/c6c6nppn0c7b88iot3gil50r2f4 but I don't think I'm at the point where I will travel to another country for the game .
One of the shards passed through Utrecht quite near to me, so I cycled to Maarsen to help fight for control over it. There were probably about 50 other people all in this tiny street surrounding a piece of playground equipment, desperately trying to take it over. I burned through all my AXA and VR shields (they pop off awfully fast when you have L8 XMPs going off constantly) and a lot of R8s / X8s. We managed to hold control of it and prevent them from taking the shard further towards Rotterdam, and after a few more jumps finally shot the shard out of the country so it's no longer as risky.
Can't get there without skis and some climbing. At least for another few weeks until the snow melts. I've already scoped out more Guardian candidates even further up that would require some real climbing.
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
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...
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 ?
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????
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sadly a few of the local res players in our area went inactive so it's up to me and salle to keep a small pocket of blue in the neighborhood. Seems every few weeks another green name shows up so it's been pretty difficult. Haven't participated in any ops yet as I mostly just play locally, only have 1k as my biggest field .
And gone is my attempt at a 90 day Guardian. An ADA said no. Suppose it was to be expected as it got slowly upgraded by other Enlightened and eventually got to L8 with my two AXA shields holding firm. I had defended it successfully more than once with those two AXA shields on but there is sadly no defense against an ADA. 85 days is where it ended. Le sad.
I feel ADA / Jarvis need to be even more rare with the addition of MUFG capsules. I've gotten into flip wars over L8 portals where it's easier to flip it than destroy and everyone has enough viruses to keep at it for days..
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. I try to keep the territory around TLHQ nice and blue, it's pretty active here in the Netherlands with things switching sides quite often.
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