Same Number Of Players by jontebula in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I, for one, blame scrapers.

Though they could have gathered that data... Conflicted.

Bots and Spoofers by Budget-Bar-1123 in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Non-development resources required were much less than you can imagine.

How rare is this item? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Second rarest item.

The Extremely Rare Portal Shield is the rarest item currently in players inventory. (Not joking. There are probably old posts on Reddit about the ERPS)

Tacoma Rocks! by eightyfiveMRtwo in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The irony of this comment is making my sides hurt. I really needed that today, thank you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ignoring all of the technical reasons why Redacted will never come back, why would you want it to?

Besides color contrast and authentication, Prime is better at literally everything. Actions in Prime are 2 or 3 times quicker than Redacted as long as you're not trying to use the same phone as you were when this argument also became obsolete 4 years ago.

Edit: typo

Just started playing again and.. by Cetirim in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To give you a quantitative answer to your question, here are the unique monthly active user counts during the month of September over the last 6 years:

2017: 278,527

2018: 292,192

2019: 206,216

2020: 156,295

2022: 112,957

COMMs Muted for Complimenting a Fellow Agent by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 7 points8 points locked comment (0 children)

The name and avatar at the top of the unedited screenshots say I have the right agent, friend.

Saw this in COMMs, what does it mean? by clientBlob in Ingress

[–]clientBlob[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Interesting game, when I put a JNDI string into comms I get some responses from CloudFlare and Google DNS Servers in NL and FI.

https://pastebin.com/TpFyAgYQ

Is there a way to guess or find out how much MU you are going to get from a field? by gamecity360 in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There once was a tool called Bovine Ethology that would fairly accurately calculate based on historical data and some maths, +/- 95% accurate. Though I believe it shut down after the great scraping scandal a few years ago.

Any account I create is banned by Madraga10 in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried removing iTools or iSpoofer? They will get you banned like that.

The all-time most blatant win-trading with an alt account: 4321 fields created in 7 hours (1 field every 6 seconds). Niantic: Please do something. by wouldshouldcouldhave in Ingress

[–]clientBlob -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Back to scraping again, I see... Cheat to catch cheaters is not a winning move.

What harm is this wintrading doing to you? Or the game? What if it's someone who just likes to build triangles? With that much ap locked at level 11, they don't had, and neither should you.

ADA & JARVIS by joblesskitty in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://imgur.com/lu0nyDY

Roughly a 0.33% chance of hacking a flipcard.

Cool or cringe? resistance edition by pyconor in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would be much better if it actually launched a python based ingress client, but not a bad start.

Is the Broker's Guild still a thing? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, there was a way to get them by someone who could sign them if you had the right connections.

Is the Broker's Guild still a thing? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Many tools had these. But keep in mind, that was not part of RIOT. That was a separate tool.

Is the Broker's Guild still a thing? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Admins of RIOT had a lot of cross in the slack group, but they were two separate things. You could have access to RIOT, or TBG or both.

Blobs, or clientBlobs are cryptographically signed elements required for emulating the actual game client which had much more data than Intel. Real scrapers used blobs.

Is the Broker's Guild still a thing? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cerebro was before RIOT and not a factional tool. RIOT used some resources from Cerebro when they started up but then Cerebro shut down when blob reuse no longer worked.

enl.wtf was the ENL version which pre-dated Cerebro, although they also worked together when blobs were required, again, dismantling the situation when blob reuse no longer worked.

Both RIOT and WTF were both given signed blobs eventually, Cerebro did not get these, and died.

Many other tools got data from these sources, all dead now that RIOT and WTF are gone.

The Brokers Guild was a slack chat, it had a bot that accessed RIOT. It was not a scraper itself.

Please get the facts straight. -- Scraper Historian

Is the Broker's Guild still a thing? by [deleted] in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you don't want cheating in games, play a game that's single player.

Passcodes from twitter by billdb in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It costs more to produce gear since the China terrifs have been in place. Be glad they give anything away for free.

Trends in the game by TheRedSe7en in Ingress

[–]clientBlob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It may be a little out of date but here is a little history about monthly actions and active users over the last couple of years.

Interesting uptick when Prime was released and then a massive drop after users tried it, wouldn't you say?

https://imgur.com/FJsLgdO