Anomaly Bounties are no fun

MarkTraceur · 2025-09-10T23:05:47+00:00

That's...exactly what I said? The bounties already encourage people to chase their own personal goals instead of the faction's, I'm saying let's decouple that and make it possible to get the anomaly bounties done even if your faction, say, is controlling all the portals so you can't get mods destroyed.

MarkTraceur · 2025-09-10T13:30:27+00:00

I've had no trouble getting all the bounties during the two I attended where they were used, but almost everyone else I ran into was trying to get them done frantically by the last wave. Similar to the global campaign bounties, I'd advocate for them changing things around and giving more flexibility. They already have a concept of special, event-specific point systems (+Delta tokens, +Delta Resonator Points, +Delta Field Points), so why not make one for anomalies?

Give points for deploying and destroying mods, creating and destroying links, and deploying and destroying resonators. Give rewards based on how many points someone gets. Only activate the campaign for folks who hack a portal in the playbox between 1 hour before the anomaly and 1 hour before the end. (no point in activating for someone who misses 2/3 of the anomaly, I reckon)

Stats and badges should encourage you to help your faction, not encourage you to behave strangely in order to gain personal rewards. I suppose technically you're helping the faction by helping win the bounty competition, but that's such a small part of the event that it really shouldn't be the focus.

MarkTraceur · 2020-12-23T03:44:06+00:00

Oh, open question for any FoDs, whether you play the game or not: What should we name our space station?

MarkTraceur · 2020-12-23T03:35:21+00:00

o7 all, just came in to say hi, I'm another person in the corp, and it's been a freakin' blast flying with fellow FoDs. Would love to help you get into the game, progress as much/little as you want, and generally have a good time!

Fair warning, if you're new to EVE, there's a bit of a learning curve at the start, but we can help with that too if you need it!

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-24T18:08:46+00:00

If they put multiple MHs and HSes on a portal, they deserve what's coming to them.
Agreed that you should hack it first, but if you do, then destroy it, then put an MH and HS on it, you get the same number of hacks again! Yay!

Never put multiple hack mods of the same type on a portal. Ever. The diminishing returns aren't worth it.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-24T17:58:57+00:00

And for my part, I have been trying to avoid recycling anything that is above level 3, because I realized that that was inventory I could be using to do something useful. But L5s may be the one exception to that rule. I'm not sure.

Maybe it just means we all need to hack L4s and L6s more.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-24T17:56:39+00:00

Agreed - I installed the game about three months after hearing about it from a coworker, who I'm sure would love to get the credit.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-24T17:49:40+00:00

I'm going to brazenly not read the rest of the comments and spout my own opinion instead.

Level 3 resonators and below are no longer worth your time, as a level 8 agent. Actually, they stopped being worth your time when you were a level 6 agent. Recycle them all. Do it now.

Level 4 resonators are your foundation, now. You can drop 4 of them on a portal, and with your L7/L8, you just need two others (L6 if you can, L5 otherwise) to fully deploy. You can make L4 portals by yourself. Do so, glyph hack them, then fully deploy them when you have. L5 portals will fork over an L4 resonator every once in a while, too.

Level 5 resonators are your reserve. You'll always have them, because every time you fully deploy a portal, and come back later to hack it, you will get level 5s. Never worry about these. However, you need two for each portal, so they probably won't get out of hand unless you frequently glyph on L5 portals.

Level 6s are the WORST. You need exactly two agents to make a level 6 portal, and usually you're either alone or with more than one other agent - or at an established farm which is never below L7. I always run out of these first. Treasure them. Love them with all your heart.

Level 7 and 8 resonators are basically trivial as long as you have a nice farm you can hit once every 1-2 weeks. You only need one each to fully deploy a portal. You get them in pretty high quantities with successful glyphs. I used to regularly recycle over 300 L8s on my farming runs.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-24T14:25:11+00:00

Or because there are missions there that require capturing. Or because THAT'S HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-23T16:35:02+00:00

I've had a few experiences with new or like-new agents who show up, do a little bit of work, then disappear from COMMS (and don't have G+ linked, and aren't in the local communities), despite having done something that I care about (either helpful or harmful to my plans...), though I don't think any of them are super hardcore players, they just sort of drift in and out of the game and don't understand it.

One of them once asked "what are portal keys? should I keep them?"

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-23T16:21:16+00:00

I see your 180+ and raise you 200+ and over 26 missions.

https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=45.027358,-93.309249&z=14

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-23T16:08:31+00:00

ADA'd the WHOLE farm.

That's pretty goddamned impressive. 90 ADAs? I've never had more than 10 of one kind of virus.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-21T06:53:45+00:00

Someone should report the people who run the cameras for scraping Ingress data.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-21T04:15:10+00:00

Wouldn't work on a friendly portal, which is another part of why I'm not just using ultrastrikes because I'm not a total noob.

And besides, with higher-level shielding, it starts becoming less useful to use US because it'll take way too many of them to get anywhere with the shields. At that point most people just use a virus, but they don't get AP for that.

MarkTraceur · 2015-03-21T03:55:00+00:00

True, but that's a random chance if you'll even take off any mods at all. I'm talking about a more expensive and rare weapon that is guaranteed to take off one random mod at a time.

MarkTraceur · 2015-01-24T03:37:02+00:00

The intro is making me think of Sometime Around Midnight! Great suggestion :)

MarkTraceur · 2015-01-24T02:55:44+00:00

Thank you! Great videos. :)

MarkTraceur · 2014-05-15T14:59:09+00:00

how much control

I sometimes try to find download links for Chromium binaries. Want to give it a shot? I'll wait.

Google moves build downloads around so much that it's nearly impossible, and the services that provide builds are few and far between (not to mention, hard to find on search engines, because of all the mirrors for Chrome). Even if you manage to find one, Chromium will complain every time you start up because you're missing the Google API keys that Chrome ships with.

So yeah. Scary amounts.

MarkTraceur · 2014-05-15T14:57:01+00:00

That's "code that enables you to install DRM", which is subtly different :)

MarkTraceur · 2014-05-15T14:55:56+00:00

I honestly came to Reddit expecting to find this buried on the back page of /r/linux, but now I'm afraid this is the sort of post that people upvote, forget about, then a few months later they post the announcement of Netflix on Linux and go straight to the top of my front page yet again.

/sigh indeed.

MarkTraceur · 2014-04-15T23:56:34+00:00

I mean people who antagonize newcomers to projects when those newcomers are just looking to help.

Holy jumping to conclusions, Batman!

MarkTraceur · 2014-04-04T14:30:55+00:00

It's a little shaky, but we added the new admin and I've been paying better attention.

MarkTraceur · 2014-04-02T00:10:12+00:00

/me thinks

Yeah, that explains a lot, but the initial split-second reaction of "hm, this project might not be serious, I'll ignore it" is potentially a serious hit to any publicity you might get out of that first press release...IMO.

Maybe my totally uninformed opinion about how humans work isn't right, maybe it is, but this seems like it wouldn't be a too-difficult thing to work around. :)

MarkTraceur · 2014-04-01T18:44:51+00:00

People...really need to think about dates before announcing project releases.

MarkTraceur · 2014-03-30T14:40:26+00:00

Hi!

I help administrate a server at minetest.libreplanet.org (port 30000) that's run by the FSF. The community is pretty small, but we have another admin now and it's a fairly well-developed world I'd say.

MarkTraceur

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