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As some of you may know, on Dec 29th, Croatia and in particular the cities of Petrinja, Glina and Sisak were struck by a strong earthquake that killed and injured people and destroyed buildings. Help is needed for volunteers from Croatian Red Cross to keep providing services to people that lost their homes.
Many of the destroyed houses belong to small family farms, so now they are living in housing containers.

The Ingress Community immediately mobilized to help, organizing the Petrinja Virtual IFS on February 6th 2021. During this event, donations will be collected using the croatian crowdfunding website Čini pravu stvar ("Do the right thing", which covers any charge or fee on donations!) to support the Croatian Red Cross in this tragic period.

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Donations will be in Croatian Kuna, the local currency, so keep the currency exchange rate in mind when submitting your donation (7,5 Kuna = 1 Euro, 6 Kuna = 1 US Dollar)

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Ingress Updates [ENG]
Agents, the French Enlightened channel @gazettedesgrenouilles has organised an exchange of ideas with some Vanguards of both factions that will be guided by some of your questions! You have one week to submit questions using this form, the channel staff will…
The long awaited interview to the Vanguards was completed by the staff of @gazettedesgrenouilles (which we thank immensely for sharing this interview with our members)! They answered some questions on the following topics:

• Vanguard Program Status
• Wintrading
• Wayfarer
• Missions
• Events, medals
• Inside the scanner
• Spoofing, multi-account

Read the full interview both in English and French on their website!

@IUENG
Drone Hack Weekend event!

This weekend will start this new event!
From Friday, January 15th 17:00 UTC to Tuesday, January 19th 17:00 UTC, the cooldown time of Drone Mark I will be reduced from 60 minutes to 15 minutes.

During this event, you will need to reach 400,000 drone hacks to unlock a 2X drop rate of Power Cubes following the event, from Tuesday, January 19th 17:00 UTC to Tuesday, January 26th 17:00 UTC.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13257/coming-soon-drone-hack-weekend-event/p1?new=1

@IUENG
A new update for Ingress has been released: v2.63.1!

In this version, the unique Portal Visit action has been changed to include the following actions: hack (not with the drone), deploy/upgrade a Resonator, deploy a Mod, create a Link, deploy Beacon/Fireworks, recharge locally, submit a scan, submit a picture.

Fixed bugs include the identification and solution of the top crash cause on Android devices, the ability to close confirmation prompts with Android's back button, and the addition of Norwegian and Korean translations.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13273/ingress-2-63-1-release-notes

@IUENG
Today, the accounts of Vanguards VAIN and bobdefee were spotted sporting the Subscription Flairs! We can speculate that Vanguards having access to the Subscription must be another step towards release of this feature to the public!

Stay tuned for more updates!

@IUENG
Agent @FMotaBra also spotted the new Monthly Subscriptions stat on the Profile of Agents (Vanguards, for now) who activated one.

We'll deliver you more updates on the matter as soon as we'll know about them!

@IUENG
Did you know that Ingress Updates is linked to a discussion group?

If you would like to discuss the latest Ingress news and much more with players from all around the world, click the button you can find in the channel's profile! (Chat is English only)

@IUENG
Earlier today, Agents found Play Store listings for a Dogfood (internal use only) and a Beta version of Ingress Prime, which have since been hidden. We recorded only minimal and irrelevant difference between those apps and the public Ingress Prime version, which only regarded in-app store listings.

One interesting thing to notice about those two Applications is this screenshot, which was visible among the example images, depicting the Ingress Prime scanner in a very early stage of development, with no UI and an initial Portal design.
We are posting this to remind you how much Prime has improved since the early betas or even the initial release, hoping to spark some excitement for future improvements and new features that will be added going forward!

Ingress is more than just a game!

@IUENG
During the European night, Niantic has announced monthly special events, each with their own special features active, starting this January.

From January 29th, 5PM UTC to February 8th, 5PM UTC, the following boni will be active:

• Reduced Drone cooldown of 15 minutes
• Double AP for Glyph hacking
• 2x L8 Resonator deployment
• Kinetic Capsule requirements reduced to 2km for new programs
• XM color will change to white

The following bundles will also be available on the store:

• Kinetic Starter Bundle (0 CMU): 3x Rare Link Amp, 3 L4 XMP, and 3 L4 Resonator
• BOGO Kinetic Program Bundle (2,000 CMU): 6x Rare Shield, 6x Rare Multi Hack, 6x Rare Heat Sink, and 6x Rare Link Amp
• Wintergreen and Winterblue medals (2,500 CMU each). Both medals can be bought regardless of faction

As with the last event, no medal can be earned, nor will a new personal stat be added to the scanner.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13354/coming-soon-january-special-event

Thanks @InvestigateXM!

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Ingress Updates [ENG]
During the European night, Niantic has announced monthly special events, each with their own special features active, starting this January. From January 29th, 5PM UTC to February 8th, 5PM UTC, the following boni will be active: • Reduced Drone cooldown…
They're here! the new WinterGreen and WinterBlue medal!

You can find them for 2500 CMU in the in-game store.

They will be available for a limited time throughout the duration of the January special event.

Don't forget to pick up the Kinetic Starter Bundle and the BOGO Kinetic Program Bundle which will only be available for the duration of the event.

• Kinetic Starter Bundle (0 CMU):
3x Rare Link Amp, 3 L4 XMP, and 3 L4 Resonator
• BOGO Kinetic Program Bundle (2,000 CMU):
6x Rare Shield, 6x Rare Multi Hack, 6x Rare Heat Sink, and 6x Rare Link Amp

Source: https://twitter.com/ingress/status/1355206535627083777?s=19

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Niantic announced the release of a new Ingress Prime update for Android. Version v2.63.2 is a hotfix to address an issue which caused a black screen on some 32-bit Android devices.

This version will be visible on the Play Store only and will become the minimum version required. Android users with previous versions will be required to update.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13384/ingress-2-63-2-on-android-only

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Today, Brian Rose commented under a pretty critical forum post about the state of Ingress.

In this message he once again expressed his commitment to "iterating and improving the game", and explained how he tries to have a more direct connection with the players by reading as many forum threads and Play Store reviews as possible, and joining First Saturday Zoom calls whenever possible.

He addressed the issues regarding communication, saying that not hearing from him that often may have sparked in some players a sensation of conflict between Niantic and them, which is not how him or any of the Ingress team members feel. Additionally, Brian stated that the team is "working to hire" a new community manager to improve on this front!

We would like to join Brian in calling all agents to action and help this small team understand what, in our opinion, works well and what needs to be improved.
To do this, follow these simple steps:

• Collect your thoughts and try to think of a fair rating for Ingress based on its current state. (Are you absolutely certain that Ingress deserves only 1 star? Absolutely nothing works?)
• Open the Play Store or the App Store, and leave a review of Ingress Prime. Don't stop after clicking the amount of stars you think is fair, but explain what you like the most about the app and what you think needs to be improved.
• Consider adding one or two stars to your review, if you feel like Ingress improves over time. Keep it updated, let the team know that you love and care about the game just like we do.
N.B. Google tends to not count old reviews, so if you already reviewed Ingress, consider updating and reposting your review.

The dev team really seems committed to keeping this game alive and to returning Ingress to its previous glory, but we need to help. Ingress is the community around it: we are all still here complaining about it because we love it and want to see it thrive, even if some of us don't like to admit it openly. Let's show that the Ingress community is still very much alive!

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We are proud to present to you the design of the C.O.R.E subscription medal! It has been pushed to the Vanguards who we previously reported to have the Subscription flair on their profile!

The C.O.R.E subscription will come to our scanners soon, its content is still unknown.

@IUENG
The intel map has been updated with filters for Captured portals, Visited portals and Scout Controlled portals!

This is the first time that agents can check up which portals they have visited, captured or scanned, and has been backfilled for all agents above L3.

A unique portal indicator will be added to the scanner in the next update!

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13451/portal-history-now-available-on-intel-map#latest

Thanks @InvestigateXM for the report!

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@IUENG
Additionally, Agent @fisher01 reported about an "Inventory" feature on the Intel Map which appears to be reserved to C.O.R.E. subscribers only!
(The C.O.R.E. subscription is not yet available, but it will be in the coming days).

@IUENG
Agents, subscriptions are almost here!

C.O.R.E., which stands for Community, Offers, Recognition, and Expansion, is an optional monthly subscription service for Ingress Agents, for $4.99 USD per month! (or your local currency equivalent)

As a C.O.R.E. subscription member, you will get access to the following benefits:

* 500 capacity expansion to Inventory
* C.O.R.E. Agent Profile Medal
* C.O.R.E. Agent Codename Flair
* Monthly 2,500 CMU grant*
* 1 C.O.R.E. Loadout Kit every month
* View Inventory and acquired Portal Keys on Intel Map

*Agents who subscribe within the first 30 days from launch date will receive a one time bonus grant of 7,000 CMU total, and resume the monthly 2,500 CMU grant from the second month.

@IUENG
Today, the details for the C.O.R.E. subscription were released. While reminding that the subscription is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and it's not require to be able to play Ingress, we would like to offer some clarifications from Brian Rose, who answered questions from the Agents on the Community Forum with regard to both the subscription and the new Portal History feature on the Intel Map.

- If you subscribe on either Android or iOS, your subscription will be valid even if you migrate to the other OS. Source
- The C.O.R.E. Profile Medal and any rewarded C.O.R.E. Loadout Kit will be kept even if you cancel your C.O.R.E. subscription. You will need to return to below 2000 items in your inventory to hack any Portal again. Source
- The Portal History feature will come to the Ingress Prime app in the next update. Source
- Requested features of an "Invert" button and a "Drone Activity" layer for the new Portal History filter on Intel is being worked on. Source
- If the layer dropdown is not displaying correctly, try hard-refreshing your browser page (Shift+reload). For any other (reproducible) issue, open a bug report here. Source

P.S. The C.O.R.E. subscription trailer, contained the following passcode: COMMUNITYOFFERSRECOGNITION (1x ITO EN (-), 1x ITO EN (+), 10x Hypercube, 1x SBUL).

@IUENG
Brian Rose confirmed that the XM will remain white - after the end of the Winter Event - at least until the Portal History feature is released, as it improves visibility for Visited Portal indicators.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/128882/#Comment_128882

@IUENG
The C.O.R.E. subscription is finally here!

Check the in-app store of your Scanner to purchase it!

@IUENG