We are entering the last month of our picture and video competition. The theme of this month is:

10 years of Ingress

We want to see the best picture, video or screenshot you took while playing Ingress over the last 10 years! Landscapes, agents, drawings in the sand, celebrating an anomaly win, screenshots of a starburst, it doesn't matter. The only thing imporant is that it has to do with Ingress and is either a picture or a video.

Once again as a reminder, you can win a passcode which can be redeemed by 10 agents which includes:

🔸40x L8 XMPs
🔸40x L8 Resonators
🔸8x Hypercubes
🔸3x VR Multi-Hacks
🔸3x VR Heat Sinks
🔸3x ITO EN (-)
🔸3x ITO EN (+)
🔸3x SoftBank Ultra Links
🔸4x Toast Beacons

Please make sure you read through the rules before you submit your entry!

Rules: https://telegra.ph/IUENG-Year-10-Photo-Competition--Rules-08-21

Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/K6Nmz3qBmKeuvCBc8

We will be announcing the winners of last week shortly as well!

@IUENG

🇺🇸 Ingress Mission Day Tampa, FL, USA - November 6th, 2022

Tampa is a multicultural city, rich in vibrant history, heritage and deep family roots.
Home of Cigars, Pirates, Parades, and the Cuban sandwich.

There is so much to enjoy and explore, watch cigar rollers in action or catch a ride on the pirate water taxi. Tampa is a colorful city with lots of art installations, statues and sculptures with lots of photo opportunities.

The local community is looking forward to exploring Downtown, the Riverwalk, & Ybor City with you during their official Mission Day on November 6th, 2022!

We also invite you to participate in the IFS Jacksonville, FL which will be held on the day before, November 5th!
An in-person meetup will be held in Tampa to participate in the Jacksonville IFS virtually, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM local time!

See you there!!

POCs
🟢 @guidogirl_1
🔵 @EYLDS

XFAC Telegram Chat
Swag Shop
Mission Day Map

Meeting Location:
Sparkman Wharf

@IUENG

Agents are once again running the Ingress World Wide Competition in 2022! This November, from the 1st to the 30th and during the 10th anniversary of Ingress, participants will engage in a friendly competition among agents to find out who will be the best in one of 20 statistics!

Niantic has once again sponsored codes to give to the best players in each of the 20 choosen stats. These will be tracked by using the Agent Stats website and app.

To keep up to date, join the dedicated Telegram channel, from which you can also join the discussion group to socialise with other agents, discuss strategies and keep up-to-date with the scores during the month:

@IWWC2022

For more information, head to the Ingress Community Forum, and keep an eye out for a passcode: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20381/prepare-for-ingress-worldwide-stats-competition-2022

@IUENG

ofer2, developer for Ingress, has commented under an old Forum post regarding the high latency the game has been experiencing for quite a while now.

In their intervention, they firstly acknowledge that experiencing this latency in-game makes it much harder and unpleasant to play, they say that the development team has been working on solving this issue "for... god know how much time" and that the issue is not solvable just by having more people working to fix it.
ofer2 states that, so far, the development team has discovered at least three completely separate issues which have all contributed to the increased latency experienced by Agents - some are client-side and some are server-side - and the problem likely won't be fixed until all these issues are taken care of.
The developer has assured that the team is still working on the issue and has mentioned to have taken a meeting regarding it just yesterday but, being the cause so complex, they don't have a timeframe for when it will be solved. They apologize for the situation being difficult as it is.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/179279/#Comment_179279

@IUENG

Recently, the cooldown on hacks has been modified by Niantic to return to the pre-COVID values on enemy and neutral Portals and a reduced rate on same-faction Portals.
The community immediately got to work updating their tools for calculating these new cooldowns with the various combinations of Portal Mods and we would love to present to you a handy website that does just that!

This tool was created by @filecc based on an idea by @Danynad and using it is easy as 1-2-3!

1) Select the faction owning the Portal
2) Select the combination of installed mods
3) Let the application calculate the cooldown time between hacks, the maximum number of hacks before burnout and the minimum time to burnout!

The web application is available at https://filecc.github.io/cooldown-calculator-ingress/

A big thank you to @filecc and @Danynad for this useful tool!

@IUENG

The first week of our final month of our photo competition is over, and we have chosen the first two winners!

The theme for this month is:

10 years of Ingress (best picture/video/screenshot of the last 10 years)

Congratulations to Agent Flottaise75 and GenghisAloe! You'll receive your passcode in just a bit. Each passcode can be redeemed up to 10 times, so you can share it with others!

Post from Flottaise75: https://www.instagram.com/p/BwktvKWAf1Q

Post from GenghisAloe: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/y7gd1o/ingress_actualgameplayfootage/

As a reminder, here is what's included in the passcodes:

🔸40x L8 XMPs
🔸40x L8 Resonators
🔸8x Hypercubes
🔸3x VR Multi-Hacks
🔸3x VR Heat Sinks
🔸3x ITO EN (-)
🔸3x ITO EN (+)
🔸3x SoftBank Ultra Links
🔸4x Toast Beacons

Once again, thanks to Niantic for sponsoring the passcodes!

Interested in competing as well? Read through this post for the rules and the link to the submission form: https://t.me/IUENG/6084

@IUENG

The sixth kit of the X Series kits is online! This kit is all about the host of the Ingress Report: Susanna Moyer! The following is included in the kits:

🔸 An X Series medal card: Susanna Moyer (new medal!).
🔸 3 mystery medal cards
🔸 One VR loadout card
🔸 Portal shield patch
🔸 Portal shield pin
🔸 Yellow Ingress Sticker
🔸 Yellow envelope

A kit costs $30 plus shipping.

The kit is available here: https://nianticsupply.com/products/ingress-series-x-kit-06-susana-moyer

@IUENG

The Niantic Supply Shop has introduced a new item! The Epiphany Dawn LA Edition t-shirt is now available for purchase!

The new t-shirt is available in sizes ranging from XS to 4-XL and in 7 colors: Black, Baby Blue, Light Blue, Kelly, Leaf, Mint and True Royal! Note that this is not the same t-shirt you'll be able to buy at the Los Angeles anomaly only.

The price is set at $25, plus shipping and handling fees.

For all lore enjoyers, the shirt has the following text printed on:
"If the Enlightened capture the Epiphany Dawn XM Anomaly Series, then K (or "KDA") will share their knowledge of who or what the Shapers are, as well as their intentions. If the Resistance will be victorious, then K will keep this knowledge to themselves, as the Resistance continues to defend humanity from an unknown Shaper ingression. Kureze Effect, Kythera, Superposition, Epiphany Dawn - The cycle must end to begin again"

You can buy the shirt here: https://nianticsupply.com/products/ingress-epiphany-dawn-la-version-tee-pod

@IUENG

Ingress' Halloween Celebration has begun! On the in-app store you will be able to purchase the 2020 and 2021 Halloween Medals for 2500 CMU each!

Note: the medals are available only for Agents who haven't already purchased them.

Ph: @toolegittoexist

@IUENG

Niantic has added additional Swag for pickup on the anomaly site for Los Angeles! You can now buy more merchandise which you'll need to pick up during the anomaly. Shipping is not available! The following items were added:

🔸Epiphany Dawn LA Challenge Coin
Commemorative LA specific anomaly challenge coin
Price: $20

🔸Ingress 10 Year Anniversary Hat
Embroidered Low profile black on black Ingress 10 year anniversary hat
Price: $30

🔸Ingress 10 Year Lapel Pin
Commemorative Ingress logo lapel pin
Price: $7.50

We can also see the design of the Tshirt that will be available for sale exclusivly during the LA anomaly. You will not be able to buy it beforehand, it needs to be bought on ground.

You can buy the Swag here: https://epiphanydawnla.splashthat.com/

@IUENG

Niantic announced that the Epiphany Dawn Anomaly in LA will have 10 Connected Cells!

The selected Scoring Cells are:

🇳🇿 PA07-SIERRA-08 (Christchurch, NZ)
🇯🇵 AS16-SIERRA-00 (Fukuoka, JP)
🇸🇬 AS09-LIMA-13 (Singapore, SG)
🇵🇱 NR02-FOXTROT-11 (Krakow, PL)
🇩🇪 NR02-GOLF-12 (Essen/Dusseldorf, DE)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NR03-JULIET-04 (Glasgow, UK)
🇵🇹 AF07-ROMEO-12 (Lisbon, PT)
🇺🇸 AM01-LIMA-01 (New York, US)
🇧🇷 AM12-SIERRA-13 (Brasilia, BR)
🇨🇴 AM08-LIMA-15 (Bogota, CO)

For each of these scoring regions, the Regional Score will be measured on the last Checkpoint of Septicycle 2022.43 (08:00 on November 12th UTC).
10 points will be divided between the Factions based on the proportion of the scores for Septicycle 2022.43.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/395

@IUENG

Are you in Los Angeles on the 4th of November, a week before the Epiphany Dawn anomaly? Niantic will hold a NL-1331X Meetup at the Stone Brewing Tap Room! ​Come hang out with the Ingress team's Brian Rose and Chris Collins after Day One of Hackaday Supercon.

​Hacking the NL-1331 Portal during the meetup will earn 1 increment towards the "NL-1331 Meetups" medal (awarded within 1 week after the event).

The NL-1331X van will also be available during the anomaly a week after! This is your chance to gain two points for the NL-1331 Meetups medal.

Register for the event here: https://lu.ma/nl1331xpas

@IUENG

The newest Series X Kits, Number 06 with Susanna Moyer, may come with Biocards among the three random ones that don't have a passcode for a badge on their back.

Niantic Supply has advised agents to take a picture of these cards and send these to them for a replacement. While the Email that was sent out only mentions Klue and Stein Lightman, we have seen other cards without codes as well.

If you are affected, please read through this support page that explains what to include in the Email together with the pictures: https://nianticsupply.gorgias.help/en-US/who-can-i-contact-108653

@IUENG

The second week of our final month of our photo competition is over, and we have chosen the next two winners!

The theme for this month is:

10 years of Ingress (best picture/video/screenshot of the last 10 years)

Congratulations to Agent uIvi and MayaTheSiren! You'll receive your passcode in just a bit. Each passcode can be redeemed up to 10 times, so you can share it with others!

Post from uIvi: https://twitter.com/VESEMlR/status/1585223371070971904

Post from MayaTheSiren: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjydVyMgqPU/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

As a reminder, here is what's included in the passcodes:

🔸40x L8 XMPs
🔸40x L8 Resonators
🔸8x Hypercubes
🔸3x VR Multi-Hacks
🔸3x VR Heat Sinks
🔸3x ITO EN (-)
🔸3x ITO EN (+)
🔸3x SoftBank Ultra Links
🔸4x Toast Beacons

Once again, thanks to Niantic for sponsoring the passcodes!

Interested in competing as well? Read through this post for the rules and the link to the submission form: https://t.me/IUENG/6084

@IUENG

🇪🇸 The Ingress Mission Day in Valencia was a success!

The organisers would like to thank the participants from both Factions for the fun day shared together!

@IUENG

We have a new update and a potential fix for the latency issue regarding Ingress.
Ofer2, developer for the game, has posted a comment on the Community Forums explaining the process behind this complicated fix.

He states that due to this particular issue being not reproducible except at scale and under heavy server load, they are using a different process than usual to identify the cause.
They have been sampling network requests randomly and filtering them based on their length, which essentially returned a list of the most probable sources of this latency.
After continued work on the issue, they discovered a hole in their infrastructure.

Their infrastructure, much like the majority of online services today, is designed to scale up and down based on its load. Google seems to be assigning requests to services that have been scaled up, but are not ready yet causing them to be not be responded to in a timely fashion.

The Niantic team has contacted Google about the issue, and have implemented a tentative fix but they are not sure this will solve the problem.
Ofer2 says: "Since this is a weird startup thing which only happens under a lot of load, its hard to test internally. We've done our best, but the final test is what happens with real players. [...] All of that being said, we know that its a long journey in fixing this, so thanks for bearing with us."

The tentative fix should be online by today or tomorrow (Pacific Time, ed.).
Should this fix not work as expected, ofer2 told us that the team has a few other ideas that they'll try out afterwards.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/179843#Comment_179843

P.S. Our discussion group is open again after the special Halloween troll event. Feel free to join!

@IUENG

Niantic has posted the Release Notes for version 2.103.3!

As well as various bug fixes which haven't been listed, Niantic has tweaked the visibility of certain elements further. For example, XM is now larger and easier to see, shading behind the XM meter and Map Screen text have been polished and Inventory items are now more stable and no longer glitch or jitter in the Inventory carousel.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2-103-3-release-notes/?hl=en

You can discuss the new update on the forums here: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20456/discussion-ingress-2-103-3-release-notes/

@IUENG

With 10 days to the start of the Epiphany Dawn Anomaly in LA, Niantic still hasn't published the Anomaly rules, as well as fundamental details about how the Anomaly Medal will be obtained.

10 weeks have passed since the event was first announced, but Agents are confused as to what they will have to do during the event which, thanks to the only information spread by Niantic together with the general area where the Event will take place (Chinatown), we know will take place from 1300 to 1700 local time.

Agent @worldchicken expressed their disappointment and that of many Agents around the world on a post in the community forum, which we invite you to direct your attention to and to engage with.

It's time to move... But where?

@worldchicken's post: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20477/anomaly-planning-or-complete-lack-thereof/

@IUENG

Niantic has finally released the rules for the Epiphany Dawn Anomaly!

The whole Epiphany Dawn Series will be divided in 3 phases
1 - Los Angeles, California, USA - November 12th, 2022
2- Global Impact - November 18th-28th, 2022
3- Yokohama, Japan - December 10th, 2022

1000 points total will be available across all three phases.

As previously reported, if the Enlightened capture the Series, then we will learn who or what the Shapers really are with the help of K and the opening of their Power Cube.
If the Resistance capture the Series, the Power Cube will be closed and K will keep this knowledge to themselves forever.

For Phase I, in LA, three challenges will be carried out, for a total of 400 points:
- Anomaly Zone Battle Beacons - 170 points
- Anomaly Zone Flash Shards - 130 points
- 10 Connected Cells - 100 points

Anomaly Zone Battle Beacons
From 13:00 to ~16:45, every 25 minutes (9 phases), a new wave of Battle Beacons will be spawned by NIA in the Anomaly Zone.
Portals where the Beacons will spawn will be highlighted in the Intel Map.
Some Portals will be marked as Volatiles, score will be multiplied by 3.
170 points to be divided between the Factions based on the sum of all Beacons' scores.

Anomaly Zone Flash Shards
65 Shards and 12 Target Portals (6 ENL and 6 RES) will spawn in waves in the Anomaly Zone. They will jump between linked L4+ Portals every 10 minutes starting at 13:40 until 16:40.
Shards won't jump to Portals they've already visited in the previous 25 minutes. After 25 minutes with no move, they'll teleport to another Portal nearby at the following jump.
Only the first 6 shards in each of the Targets will score 2 points for the relative Faction, additional shards won't count.
130 points to be divided between the two Factions based on the score at the end of the challenge.

Connected Cells
Refer to https://t.me/IUENG/6097.
100 points to be divided between the two Factions
⚠ From November 11th 2022 @ 1700 UTC to November 14th 2022 @ 1700 UTC, links shorter than 8km in length can be created under Fields.


In the next posts, we'll illustrate how the Epiphany Dawn Medal can be obtained, as well as the Add-On Events for Los Angeles!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/epiphany-dawn-rules/?hl=en

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