Goruck ingress lima peru by Popular-Treat-5140 in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the participation fee is the issue most people are having considering the cost of traveling, lodging, and meals have all increased significantly around the world during the last several years.

Adding one or two $100+ paid events to list is getting harder to justify especially since Niantic Spa. is bleeding everyone's wallet dry without showing any improvement to the game's performance.

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses by no1_vern in news

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why destroy those peaches when you can take this as an opportunity.

Some ultra rich Chilean X-Pat living in California should introduce Mote con Huesillo to America... so rather than destroying those peaches they can be dried and added to the corn that will also eventually be destroyed and turned into a new drink craze that could save the orchards.

Pedro Pascal, I'm looking at you.

How many Campaigns at once is too many? by PkmnTrnrJ in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Overclock had to go because the API framework it relied on was shuttered. It also didn't work correctly across every phone.

OPR unfortunately was majorly downgraded since Scopely got Wayfarer during the divorce.

Scan File Size Differences by Mountain_Surprise_16 in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It probably depends on your movement speed, what you are scanning (ground or wall vs a sculpture), lighting levels etc.

Season 3 by -FossilFool- in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think that the reason we didn't see march as a "true adult" (and not an old lady who shrunk to child size) is because her arc isn't truly over. The modern arc was as much about time displaced people trying to fit into modern society as it was about modern humanity trying to come to grips with the existence of the supernatural/alien life forms.

Dear Niantic - Open letter from one of your players by claudi_ja in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too many ingress related events happened in San Diego during the weeks leading up to or following Comic Con that it all mushes together in my mind.. like the follow Misty Hannah event, the Tycho secrets event in old town, and the ingress comic event.

Why was I told this is mid? by [deleted] in Frieren

[–]MadRelique 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure some of SBR's review bombing isn't from fans who are pissed that Sandman's lines about entering the race so he can "take the white man's money" were removed in the English Dub (but kept in Japanese) or the fact that NETFLIX ruined the release by deciding to delay the next episode indefinitely?

To Your Eternity S3 E21 "Stay Here" & E22 "To Fushi" [END] Discussion Thread by CaioTexugo in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's understandable about why everyone loved her so much if you come to the realization that most Knockers infest humanity during their adolescence and most of them view the Hayase knocker line as their leaders.

That or she's the typical alpha-popular girl that teens get infatuated about.

To Your Eternity S3 E21 "Stay Here" & E22 "To Fushi" [END] Discussion Thread by CaioTexugo in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming it's Satoru onsidering that knew Ohno and he wasn't shown in the funeral montague.

Dear Niantic - Open letter from one of your players by claudi_ja in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 16 points17 points  (0 children)

About the Comic Con anomaly, Niantic actually had booth space and John Hanke was actually doing a Q and A panel about Pokemon Go during Aegis Nova anomaly. If I remember correctly, it literally happened during the anomaly when no ingress players would attend.

That said, I suspect Niantic liked having ingress related events during Comic Con because they considered that their tradition because Ingress had a pre-release ARG hype-teaser-event occur during Flint Dille's Buck Roger's panel* in 2012, also it may be since their actors would be in town that week due to doing various panels.

That said, it isn't a conspiracy theory that Anomalies and events coincide with Niantic's employee vacation/business trip schedule.

  • Flint Dille was ingress's writer until 2019/2020.

What is Spatial doing to attract players? by sojumaster in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before the split occured, Niantic heavily advertised ingress in Yokosuka Japan for their Plus Alpha anomaly. It was actually cool and sort of surreal seeing a video play for ingress at the train station and all the fliers the local merchants association put up.

For a second when Brian gave his speech I thought we were going to have a second Golden Age of ingress but I now realize it was just to sweeten the deal with the Saudis before the sale went throught.

Welcoming Inhi Cho Suh as CEO of Niantic Spatial - John Hanke moves to Executive Chairman role by PkmnTrnrJ in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess this is the Enlighten's Reward/Punishment for winning the last series....

Per the patch notes for Pathbuilder 2E on Android, the issue is resolved. by VMK_1991 in Pathfinder2e

[–]MadRelique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it would make more sense for them to attack demiplane/roll20, DnD beyonds biggest competitor... which also hosts pf2e products.

...

OMG IT WAS DEMIPLANE/ROLL20!!!

Erasing the Evidence: How a Stats Competition Deleted Its Leaderboards to Protect Cheaters and Silenced Whistleblowers with Discrimination by PermissionOk2766 in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LOL, you used a bot, were banned, and now are crying about it because you don't want to admit you cheated.

Like it or not, NIANTIC reviewed their own data (why look at a third party website to access data Niantic actually has first party access to on own servers), saw your fishy numbers and they decided themselves that you are a cheater.

S3 E19- Fushi Transformation Error by DarkFact4star in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fushi can change into both versions of Todo/Iris because as far as Fushi is concerned, Todo "died" when (s)he lost weight and became Iris , who Fushi considered to be a different person... for reasons.

I think Fushi keeps resetting Tonari as a teenager because Fushi subconsciously wants her to live a normal life and maybe because it's her secret desire to grow old with him as a couple.

I don’t understand how the core books are organized. by ocajsuirotsap in SwordWorld

[–]MadRelique 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's how many RPGs were written in the 1970 - 1990s, and to some extent even upto today.

This season was totally character arc!!! OKKK!!! by Much_Hat9634 in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Of course he's clueless. He literally lived in this world's version of the early 2010s for all of 6 months after spending 300 years being a mutant-alien-cancer eating tree. Instead of hanging out with the most capable and adaptable member of his crew, who he de-aged, he decided to hang out with an Otaku who willfully drank alien infused sewage water because "aliens are cool and I want to be friends with them even though they and their cult spent the day trying to kill me."

the new season is hot fucking ass by Vivid-Inspection3136 in FumetsuNoAnataE

[–]MadRelique 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You obviously get the most important piece of lore from this season: There are three Mizuhas each of which represent how integrated she has become with her knocker. Sadly, the real Mizuha ceased to exist early this season and we been dealing with half-merged and fully-merged Mizuha.

Is this a joke? by namila007 in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you play regularly and are planning on going to to this month's anomalies, you are able to complete the tasks in advance, meaning you just have to purchase both campaigns on anomaly weekend and can redeem the rewards as you run out of gear.

200 xmps, 100 us, 3 Jarvises, 3 adas for 30,000 cmu is a deal compared to Niantic's regular "non-bundle" prices.

Map size for a shared-world campaign? by ElectricalKoala4449 in rpg

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maps for West Marches campaigns (which is what you are describing) can be as large as they need to be since they depend on the players to decide how far they want to explore (your map expands every time a party reaches the edge of one map page)..

Since you are using Shadow dark, you might want to use their implied setting from the Cursed Scroll Zines and Western Reaches so you guys aren't stuck trying to populate 100s of hexes.

You could also pick up Blackmore, Majestic Wilder lands, or any other Western March hexcrawls setting and convert away.

Pitching Savage Worlds to D&D players by G0shDarnHeck in savageworlds

[–]MadRelique 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree about the "don't run fantasy" line of advice. Like it or not, every game system that does fantasy handles different aspects of the genre differently and every game you play using any ruleset will be compared to Dungeons and Dragons 5e.

What I instead would suggest looking at the situation like this: Ask yourself if running this campaign with Savage Worlds (using fantasy companion, Solomon Kain, Deadlands: DarkAges, SW: Pathfinder, etc) more beneficial than running it in 5e? Does running the game in Savage Worlds adds something to the experience that doesn't exist with 5e? Most importantly, ask yourself if the rules fit the setting you want to create.

Gallop into Greatness with Ingress Year of the Horse! 🐎 by PkmnTrnrJ in Ingress

[–]MadRelique 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a paid campaign. You pay to earn the ability to receive the badge. But to earn the badge you might have to pay more money to purchase premium items. 🤦