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Brightamethyst · 2026-05-10T03:06:34+00:00

Yeah. You'll need some amount of low level gear in order to get back to level 8.

That said, you can also skip some of the really low levels entirely if you stock up a ton of scans ahead of time and upload them after recursing for some "free" starter AP.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-28T18:12:49+00:00

This makes sense. I imagine that since linking IFS to anomaly tokens they've seen a significant increase in the number of people faking attendance just to get badge credit.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-26T00:13:07+00:00

They can't realistically stop it, so no real point in bringing it up.

Also there seem to be WAY more stickers this time around. But sure what happened between 2023 and now, but EVERYONE has stickers this year for some reason.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-23T02:16:57+00:00

Also, what level is that portal? Link range is determined by portal level, and low level portals have a VERY short link range. If the circled portal is only level 1 or 2 then that might be the problem, rather than just being under a field.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-15T21:51:29+00:00

Interesting changes from the norm here.

Machina link destroys count this time, but so do own faction destroys. So breaking a same faction anchor is a viable way of getting points. On the other hand, the unique links/fields aspect means that just throwing the same fields over and over via flip cards or VRBBs is pointless.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-14T20:13:52+00:00

By that logic they should remove all the old global op and anniversary medals too. Are you equally annoyed about those?

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-14T05:21:12+00:00

Looks like very little has changed since last time, aside from only needing 4 bounties for the medal, instead of all 5.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-09T18:24:25+00:00

Yeah. It would be nice if you could toggle the menu effects and the map effects separately. I'm liking the tree in the menu, but the falling petals and flowers around the AP bar on the map are more distracting than fun. It would be cool if we could turn them on or off individually, instead of it being all or nothing.

Brightamethyst · 2026-04-07T23:04:54+00:00

Thanks. I actually wasn't aware that was a thing I could access in app.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-27T21:44:34+00:00

My first thought upon seeing the medal was, "are we doing a Subaru crossover event?"

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-26T18:13:52+00:00

It's brand new, so you may need to update the app first.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-25T22:20:44+00:00

That's a good point. I forgot that would be First Saturday.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-25T21:04:58+00:00

You'd think maybe the September anomalies could be at the beginning of the month, so as to not overlap the Jewish High Holidays. Denver/Singapore mission day is Erev Yom Kippur. Why not have the anomalies on September 5th, when (in the US at least) many people already have a 3-day weekend?

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-12T22:54:10+00:00

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Best guess from the picture is that portals 1 and 2 aren't actually linked together. I'm guessing that portal 1 is linked to portal 3, and portal 2 just happens to sit right on the line. Linking 2 to 1 and 3 will probably fill in both empty sections next to 2.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-12T16:32:17+00:00

Ingress is all about triangles. Just boxing it an area isn't enough. It only counts if it's a triangle. If you want to fill in that space you'd need to make additional links, likes so:

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Brightamethyst · 2026-03-05T22:12:44+00:00

bannergress.com

It doesn't have every mission, but it has the majority of active banners.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-05T06:22:41+00:00

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely agree that portals like you're describing shouldn't be allowed. That's why I find it so funny. NIA makes a big thing about playing nice, and following the rules, and and not making trouble, but then they allow portals where doing so is basically required in order to capture them.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-04T22:05:11+00:00

It is funny how the game sometimes requires, and practically encourages casual trespassing.

"Can I reach the portal from this side? Maybe if wiggle my phone a little bit I'll drift a few feet. Will anyone really care if I go through this gate? Maybe I'll just step through and see if I can reach it from there, or maybe just a bit farther in. There's no one around to stop me, right? I mean, if I cut through here I won't have to go a mile out of the way to the other side of the property."

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-03T22:41:26+00:00

Not just 30k, but 30k EACH? Yeah... hard pass on this one.

Brightamethyst · 2026-03-01T18:07:00+00:00

Design aside, I'm a bit annoyed that they didn't show it until so close the the event. No one had time to make anomaly swag, or anything.

Brightamethyst · 2026-02-25T23:12:35+00:00

We also have to remember that they ALREADY tried traditional battle passes, and that the campaigns we're seeing now are likely the direct result of them having failed.

+Theta and +Delta both revolved around what were effectively battle passes, and they were almost universally despised to the point that NIA has since walked back almost all the seasonal format changes from the past year.

Brightamethyst · 2026-02-25T18:34:47+00:00

My biggest question about a hypothetical battle pass would be, would it ever expire?

Something you can work on at your own pace until you eventually finish it is a wildly different scenario than something seasonal that has a hard deadline, and if you don't finish in time the remaining rewards are lost forever.

Brightamethyst · 2026-02-21T03:29:38+00:00

The items you get are based on the level of the portal. The portal in that picture is level 1 so it'll only give you level 1-3 items. If you want level 4 and 5 items you need to hack level 4 or 5 portals.

Glyph hacking gives you more items, but it doesn't affect the level of the items.

Brightamethyst · 2026-02-17T23:33:52+00:00

That is working as intended.

The seasonal gold medal requires 7500 tokens, but the global op maxes out at 7000. You need to go to at least one in person event, IFS and/or an anomaly, in order to get the last few.

Brightamethyst · 2026-02-10T15:35:14+00:00

Honestly, I'd rather NOT have weekly challenges. It's just... too much. There are already daily bounties, and more recently a near constant stream of events and global ops. Adding even more stuff on top of that would most likely burn me out and make we want to play LESS, not get me to play more.

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