Niantic has announced details for the upcoming #MeetYouOutThere Challenge.
From Friday, August 20 @ 1600 UTC to Monday, August 30 @ 1600 UTC, you will have the opportunity to earn a special medal. You must earn a certain amount of AP within the event for the Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels:
Bronze: 88 888 AP
Silver: 888 888 AP
Gold: 2 888 888 AP
Also, for new portals that you have never visited before, 888 AP will be awarded when you visit them. You can find them with the layer button in the scanner.
There is also a free Apex, a one-time special offer for 8 Apex for 8 000 CMU, and special media that can be hacked during the event.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16450/coming-soon-courier-meet-you-out-there-challenge
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From Friday, August 20 @ 1600 UTC to Monday, August 30 @ 1600 UTC, you will have the opportunity to earn a special medal. You must earn a certain amount of AP within the event for the Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels:
Bronze: 88 888 AP
Silver: 888 888 AP
Gold: 2 888 888 AP
Also, for new portals that you have never visited before, 888 AP will be awarded when you visit them. You can find them with the layer button in the scanner.
There is also a free Apex, a one-time special offer for 8 Apex for 8 000 CMU, and special media that can be hacked during the event.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16450/coming-soon-courier-meet-you-out-there-challenge
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Ingress Updates [ENG]
Niantic has announced details for the upcoming #MeetYouOutThere Challenge. From Friday, August 20 @ 1600 UTC to Monday, August 30 @ 1600 UTC, you will have the opportunity to earn a special medal. You must earn a certain amount of AP within the event for…
After hearing feedback from the Agents, Niantic has decided to reduce the Drone cooldown to 15 minutes for the duration of the event as an additional bonus on top of the 888AP for every all-time unique Portal visit.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16450/coming-soon-courier-meet-you-out-there-challenge
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Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16450/coming-soon-courier-meet-you-out-there-challenge
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Another announcement from Niantic!
For the upcoming September Second Sunday Mission Day, Niantic stated that any 6 missions created by any mission author, including previously-completed missions, completed during the Event timespan, will earn you a point on your Mission Day Medal!
⚠️ Note, feedback from this SSMD Event will be analyzed and this rule may change in future Events.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16458/ingress-second-sunday-update-for-september/
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For the upcoming September Second Sunday Mission Day, Niantic stated that any 6 missions created by any mission author, including previously-completed missions, completed during the Event timespan, will earn you a point on your Mission Day Medal!
⚠️ Note, feedback from this SSMD Event will be analyzed and this rule may change in future Events.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16458/ingress-second-sunday-update-for-september/
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🔧 Ultimate Mission Maker
Enlightened Agent @Vashiru, with the help of Agents @j00rtje and @DanielOnDiordna has created an IITC plugin to speed up the (banner) mission creation process for everyone to use: Ultimate Mission Maker!
UMM is an IITC plugin to streamline the (banner/mosaic) mission creation process. UMM allows you to draw your entire banner in IITC in a drawtools like fashion. You can then export it as a JSON file, import that JSON into Niantic's Mission Authoring Tool and it will automatically pre-fill the title, description and, most importantly: all portals. If you've ever created a mission, you probably know how annoying it is to hunt down all those portals in those orange blobs on the map. This will no longer be required as all portals will just be loaded from your import.
The code is not obfuscated or minified so anyone with basic programming knowledge can see that the plugin is safe to use!
The plugin can be found at https://umm.8bitnoise.rocks along with its (work in progress) documentation and a telegram group exists for support on usage.
Please note that, as this is the first release, the plugin is still limited in functionality. The team is already working to add new and useful features!
Many thanks to this group of Agents for providing yet another useful tool to the whole Ingress Community!
@IUENG
Enlightened Agent @Vashiru, with the help of Agents @j00rtje and @DanielOnDiordna has created an IITC plugin to speed up the (banner) mission creation process for everyone to use: Ultimate Mission Maker!
UMM is an IITC plugin to streamline the (banner/mosaic) mission creation process. UMM allows you to draw your entire banner in IITC in a drawtools like fashion. You can then export it as a JSON file, import that JSON into Niantic's Mission Authoring Tool and it will automatically pre-fill the title, description and, most importantly: all portals. If you've ever created a mission, you probably know how annoying it is to hunt down all those portals in those orange blobs on the map. This will no longer be required as all portals will just be loaded from your import.
The code is not obfuscated or minified so anyone with basic programming knowledge can see that the plugin is safe to use!
The plugin can be found at https://umm.8bitnoise.rocks along with its (work in progress) documentation and a telegram group exists for support on usage.
Please note that, as this is the first release, the plugin is still limited in functionality. The team is already working to add new and useful features!
Many thanks to this group of Agents for providing yet another useful tool to the whole Ingress Community!
@IUENG
Are you on track to reach the Courier Gold Medal? Agent @SpineyNorman has created a website with which you can check if you'll meet the requirements needed for the three badge tiers, if you continue at the same pace.
Check it out here: https://ingress.otheroom.com
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Check it out here: https://ingress.otheroom.com
@IUENG
Niantic has published release notes for Ingress Prime v2.79.1!
We have another attempt at a COMM fix!
In this update, the COMM will fill the full width of the screen, won't be shifted to the left or appear blank and the lack line on its side is gone!
Furthermore, a "Latest" button was added to quickly jump to the most recent COMM update.
In other fixes: the Agent header won't overlap the drone view any longer and Portal Scanning won't get darkened to avoid making scanning difficult.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16506/ingress-2-79-1-release-notes
@IUENG
We have another attempt at a COMM fix!
In this update, the COMM will fill the full width of the screen, won't be shifted to the left or appear blank and the lack line on its side is gone!
Furthermore, a "Latest" button was added to quickly jump to the most recent COMM update.
In other fixes: the Agent header won't overlap the drone view any longer and Portal Scanning won't get darkened to avoid making scanning difficult.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16506/ingress-2-79-1-release-notes
@IUENG
After Niantic announced their plan to move the Ingress Portal Network (the database for the portals) to Niantic Lightship, Thia has now announced that this move has been completed. All nominations and portal edits that were made during the preparation for the move will now be processed. If a portal is considered eligible for Ingress, it will also appear.
Thia clarified that a portal submission does not guarantee a inclusion in Ingress, rather, the nomination will be added to the Niantic Lightship database, after which all Niantic games can sync them from there to their own games. This means that it is possible that a submission might appear in Pokemon GO, but not necessarily in Ingress, as each game can decide how to use Lightship’s Wayspots to populate and shape their specific gameboard.
Thia also mentioned that the move to Niantic Lightship means that submissions which were previously only visible in other games can now populate Ingress as well. Niantic also acknowledged that "the number of new Portals on the gameboard is shockingly different from what you’re used to in some countries" and that they should have taken more time to test the impact of those portals. Thia closes with suggesting Agents to, if they come along a portal with no picture, submit a photo or, if the portal does not "meet Wayfarer standards", to report it.
With this, Niantic answers questions of Portals appearing in other Niantic games, but not in Ingress without any apparent explanation, as well as questions about thousands of portals, seemingly imported from FourSquare, appearing without any quality checks or pictures. Unsurprisingly, Agent are not thrilled with this statement and are asking for the current criteria for a portal to be imported into the game, as well as the removal of the low quality portals that were imported.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/152012/#Comment_152012
@IUENG
Thia clarified that a portal submission does not guarantee a inclusion in Ingress, rather, the nomination will be added to the Niantic Lightship database, after which all Niantic games can sync them from there to their own games. This means that it is possible that a submission might appear in Pokemon GO, but not necessarily in Ingress, as each game can decide how to use Lightship’s Wayspots to populate and shape their specific gameboard.
Thia also mentioned that the move to Niantic Lightship means that submissions which were previously only visible in other games can now populate Ingress as well. Niantic also acknowledged that "the number of new Portals on the gameboard is shockingly different from what you’re used to in some countries" and that they should have taken more time to test the impact of those portals. Thia closes with suggesting Agents to, if they come along a portal with no picture, submit a photo or, if the portal does not "meet Wayfarer standards", to report it.
With this, Niantic answers questions of Portals appearing in other Niantic games, but not in Ingress without any apparent explanation, as well as questions about thousands of portals, seemingly imported from FourSquare, appearing without any quality checks or pictures. Unsurprisingly, Agent are not thrilled with this statement and are asking for the current criteria for a portal to be imported into the game, as well as the removal of the low quality portals that were imported.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/152012/#Comment_152012
@IUENG
New to the back story of Ingress or need a refresher? Thia has posted a "Ingress Lore Primer" which Brian wrote on the forums to get you up to speed on the basics of the story.
You can read it here: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16569/ingress-lore-primer/p1
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You can read it here: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16569/ingress-lore-primer/p1
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We have a new candidate for a World Record! This massive amount of fields was established in Italy last weekend!
Enlightened Agents from the Abruzzo region managed to create the astonishing number of 302 nested fields!
At the moment, the record is being verified, meaning that we are looking into whether an OP with more fields exists, be it green or blue. Please reach out to us in our discussion group if that's the case!
Sitrep: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16563/new-world-record-302-layers
Thanks @donbreda for the report!
@IUENG
P.S. We also posted about the Linkstar World Record! Check the post out!
Enlightened Agents from the Abruzzo region managed to create the astonishing number of 302 nested fields!
At the moment, the record is being verified, meaning that we are looking into whether an OP with more fields exists, be it green or blue. Please reach out to us in our discussion group if that's the case!
Sitrep: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16563/new-world-record-302-layers
Thanks @donbreda for the report!
@IUENG
P.S. We also posted about the Linkstar World Record! Check the post out!
Niantic published release notes for Ingress Prime V2.80.1!
In this version, Ingress steps down from being the reference source for POIs in other Niantic games. From now, Ingress will get its Portals and updates from Wayfarer. (Server update, not client)
The only bug fix included regards the Android version of the game, which went back two screens instead of one when pressing the back button while on the Missions Medals and Manage Inventory screens.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16651/ingress-2-80-1-release-notes
@IUENG
In this version, Ingress steps down from being the reference source for POIs in other Niantic games. From now, Ingress will get its Portals and updates from Wayfarer. (Server update, not client)
The only bug fix included regards the Android version of the game, which went back two screens instead of one when pressing the back button while on the Missions Medals and Manage Inventory screens.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16651/ingress-2-80-1-release-notes
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After almost exactly a year, we finally got the answer to the mysterious fingerprint badge that was accidentally posted with the announcement of the Niantic profile: This medal was an early design or placeholder for the C.O.R.E. medal. Niantic decided against using that design, and instead created the design you see in the scanner today.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/152840/#Comment_152840
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Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/152840/#Comment_152840
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The Optima Kinetic Challenge returns from Friday, 17 September at 1600 UTC to Monday, 27 September 1600 UTC with new tiers!
Previous metric should go live at the beginning of the event, and a free and paid Kinetic bundles will be available!
Plus, the programs will be modified during the event:
- Reactivated Jarvis and L8 Resonator programs
- New ADA program
- Existing programs started during the event are reduced to 2km
Agents, are you ready?
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16676/coming-soon-optima-kinetic-challenge-ll/p1?new=1
@IUENG
Previous metric should go live at the beginning of the event, and a free and paid Kinetic bundles will be available!
Plus, the programs will be modified during the event:
- Reactivated Jarvis and L8 Resonator programs
- New ADA program
- Existing programs started during the event are reduced to 2km
Agents, are you ready?
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16676/coming-soon-optima-kinetic-challenge-ll/p1?new=1
@IUENG
The challenge is on! Niantic advises that, if you completed enough programs during the first round for silver or gold, you might need to complete an additional program for the badge to be awarded.
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Niantic has announced that the ADA program for Kinetic Capsules has been disabled until the Ingress team can fix its final output. The team is also looking into a solution for those who didn't receive the right output.
Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/207
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Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/207
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Ingress Updates [ENG]
Niantic has announced that the ADA program for Kinetic Capsules has been disabled until the Ingress team can fix its final output. The team is also looking into a solution for those who didn't receive the right output. Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/207…
The ADA program has been fixed and reactivated Agents!
For those who received the wrong output, the team is looking for a solution.
In addition, for those who are considering to do a run-day to obtain the medal, consider that there is a 40 km limit per-24 hours, starting at the redeem of your first program, as a rolling 24 hour period!
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16676/coming-soon-optima-kinetic-challenge-ll/p1?new=1
@IUENG
For those who received the wrong output, the team is looking for a solution.
In addition, for those who are considering to do a run-day to obtain the medal, consider that there is a 40 km limit per-24 hours, starting at the redeem of your first program, as a rolling 24 hour period!
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16676/coming-soon-optima-kinetic-challenge-ll/p1?new=1
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We have received exclusive intel regarding the Niantic Supply Shop!
The toast plushies are back in stock for one week only! After that, it'll be gone for good, so if you want one, now is your last chance.
Bite size: $25 (Size: 7.5”)
Family size: $35 (Size: 15”)
Combo pack (both sizes): $50
If you order over $50 worth of items, it'll come with free international shipping!
Get your toast here: https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-toast-plush-promo
In addition, more Ingress products will soon be available on the online store.
@IUENG
The toast plushies are back in stock for one week only! After that, it'll be gone for good, so if you want one, now is your last chance.
Bite size: $25 (Size: 7.5”)
Family size: $35 (Size: 15”)
Combo pack (both sizes): $50
If you order over $50 worth of items, it'll come with free international shipping!
Get your toast here: https://nianticsupply.com/pages/ingress-toast-plush-promo
In addition, more Ingress products will soon be available on the online store.
@IUENG
Niantic is working on the event calendar for the fourth quarter, but Thia can already confirm the following:
There will be another Second Sunday in October, and it still applies that it can be any six missions, completing NIA missions is not mandatory.
How it looks with the Second Sunday after October, Niantic will not reveal at this time.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16757/second-sunday-for-october
@IUENG
There will be another Second Sunday in October, and it still applies that it can be any six missions, completing NIA missions is not mandatory.
How it looks with the Second Sunday after October, Niantic will not reveal at this time.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16757/second-sunday-for-october
@IUENG
The release notes for version 2.81.1 have been published. Among other things, the problem that only the last few COMM notifications were displayed until the game was restarted has been fixed, as well as the problem that no fireworks could be used on a portal with a battle beacon. Attempting to move a drone to a portal with a maximum of 8 drones now also reopens the option to choose a different portal.
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16784/ingress-2-81-1-release-notes
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Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16784/ingress-2-81-1-release-notes
@IUENG
Less than 24 hours left to the end of the Optima Kinetic Challenge!
Did you already reach the gold target? Agents, it's time to move!
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Did you already reach the gold target? Agents, it's time to move!
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Niantic has announced changes for submitting portal edits as well as portal suggestions.
Niantic will change the old contribution limit mechanism from a 14-day waiting period to a daily contribution system, with the maximum daily quota increasing depending on the contribution type. This will apply to Wayspot nominations, edits, and AR scans. This will be reflected in the info text in your settings and in the nomination or edit screens.
🔸New nominations - 1 daily increase / 40 maximum.
🔸Title edits - 2 daily increase / 40 maximum.
🔸Description edits - 2 daily increase / 40 maximum
🔸Location edits - 1 daily increment / 40 maximum
🔸Photo submissions - 2 daily increments / 40 maximum
🔸Notification of invalid portals - 2 daily increments / 40 maximum
🔸AR scanning* - 10 daily accrual / 200 maximum.
This change will be applied to Ingress once some outstanding code changes are made.
Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/23652/update-in-game-contribution-limit
*Note: The data for AR Scanning is based on the Pokemon GO limit. Ingress is expected to get different values, but they are still listed here for completeness.
@IUENG
Niantic will change the old contribution limit mechanism from a 14-day waiting period to a daily contribution system, with the maximum daily quota increasing depending on the contribution type. This will apply to Wayspot nominations, edits, and AR scans. This will be reflected in the info text in your settings and in the nomination or edit screens.
🔸New nominations - 1 daily increase / 40 maximum.
🔸Title edits - 2 daily increase / 40 maximum.
🔸Description edits - 2 daily increase / 40 maximum
🔸Location edits - 1 daily increment / 40 maximum
🔸Photo submissions - 2 daily increments / 40 maximum
🔸Notification of invalid portals - 2 daily increments / 40 maximum
🔸AR scanning* - 10 daily accrual / 200 maximum.
This change will be applied to Ingress once some outstanding code changes are made.
Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/23652/update-in-game-contribution-limit
*Note: The data for AR Scanning is based on the Pokemon GO limit. Ingress is expected to get different values, but they are still listed here for completeness.
@IUENG
Niantic announced their schedule of events for Q4 2021!
October
2nd - First Saturday
10th - Second Sunday (complete any 6 missions for Mission Day badge point)
21st -> November 1st - #IngressHalloween2021, with 4 Mods per Agent on Portals, AP bonuses and a Limited-time "Halloween 2021" medal for 2500 CMU
November
6th - First Saturday
14th - Second Sunday
15th -> 29th - #IngressYear9 (will expand on this in the next post)
December
4th - First Saturday
12th - Second Sunday
20th -> January 3th - #IngressNewYear2022, with 4km distance on all Kinetic Capsule Programs, 22 mins Drone Cooldown, +220 AP per Unique visited (all-time unique, see the Visits Layer) and 2x AP for deploying Beacons, Frackers, Fireworks and battle Beacons!
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16877/october-december-2021-events-schedule
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October
2nd - First Saturday
10th - Second Sunday (complete any 6 missions for Mission Day badge point)
21st -> November 1st - #IngressHalloween2021, with 4 Mods per Agent on Portals, AP bonuses and a Limited-time "Halloween 2021" medal for 2500 CMU
November
6th - First Saturday
14th - Second Sunday
15th -> 29th - #IngressYear9 (will expand on this in the next post)
December
4th - First Saturday
12th - Second Sunday
20th -> January 3th - #IngressNewYear2022, with 4km distance on all Kinetic Capsule Programs, 22 mins Drone Cooldown, +220 AP per Unique visited (all-time unique, see the Visits Layer) and 2x AP for deploying Beacons, Frackers, Fireworks and battle Beacons!
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/16877/october-december-2021-events-schedule
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