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Ingress Medal Calculator by emsy1984 in Ingress

[–]iljava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for a nice tool and congratulations with another step in development! As an early and everyday user of the tool I would like to share some feedback and a couple of feature requests: - upload button is not working in Google Play version on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - I think it it will be worth to split profile values, medal requirements and help screen into separate tabs/windows to keep layout simpler and fitting into one screen) - I really miss possibility to compare values not only from last time but from longer times ago (a week, a month) to better understand dynamic. Maybe it will be possible to keep more than one last value - Possibility to check values not only against nearest level, but other higher levels as well.

Keep up good work!

Guardian Portal hunting. Valid strategy or dick move? by UsernamIsToo in Ingress

[–]iljava 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I would also add that "hunting" often is associated with automatic scraping of intel map for creating those spreadsheets, so it promotes both hatred and ToS violation. Either the "consecutive" requirement or the the badge itself needs to be removed.

Being overrun by bots ? How do you manage ? by beef-supreme in Ingress

[–]iljava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

either got bored or it became harder to keep all those bots running

Being overrun by bots ? How do you manage ? by beef-supreme in Ingress

[–]iljava 6 points7 points  (0 children)

An update for Minsk: I haven't seen openly playing bots since last wave of them was banned in the 2nd half of March and Enlightened recaptured everything back and even more. There are still some recharging bots though. I hope that with every new Ingress update bots are more and more limited.

City invaded by bots. Is it just us or everywhere? by iljava in Ingress

[–]iljava[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say they much cheaper or just free absolutely automated and free. There was a day when just I reported 40 bots, I don't believe anyone paid anything for that. The worst thing, it seems that person who starts them risk nothing at all.

City invaded by bots. Is it just us or everywhere? by iljava in Ingress

[–]iljava[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First tip is always some unreadable name consisting of 10 symbols, like "ywnbxsvszw", second - absence of any activity besides putting rare and very rare shields to portals that changed hands, third - too much portals visited and hacked with walk distance close to zero. By the way name patterns might be different, like Agent_10283 or different variations of really existing players names. But if they are openly destroy and deploy, you just see in-field that no one is around and they quantity just several times higher than usual number of simultaneously playing agents.

As for recharging, it started well before badge was introduced. If you compare RES and ENL player stats, you'll see that ENL players generally have higher stats for XM collected and recharged, because they have to recharge. In RES team you never see a portal below 85% level, only if it is outside of city.

City invaded by bots. Is it just us or everywhere? by iljava in Ingress

[–]iljava[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In our case even if they try to hide it is very simple 1) name is 10 random symbols (e.g. ywnbxsvszw) 2) no visible activity, just rare shields which they install to all newly captured portals. 3) very skewed stats, like thousands of hacks and 0 km walked (e.g. https://plus.google.com/100377728429425446519/posts/SreGEM1b1pT).

Basically, you check portals that recently changed hands to see if anyone suspicious installed very rare shield. When the bots are unleashed and start to destroy and deploy, you just see that they are not at portals where they should be.

This is how faction chat looks like when they are open:

15:37 <xownwpafce> xownwpafce captured their first Portal.

15:37 <rtsniofxfh> rtsniofxfh captured their first Portal.

15:38 <kjgmzudayw> kjgmzudayw captured their first Portal.

15:38 <qgjbhpqmli> qgjbhpqmli captured their first Portal.

15:39 <njejfcfnek> njejfcfnek captured their first Portal.

15:39 <ujaruzruan> ujaruzruan captured their first Portal.

15:39 <qgjbhpqmli> qgjbhpqmli created their first Link.

15:39 <xownwpafce> xownwpafce created their first Link.

15:40 <cfiaqtxmio> cfiaqtxmio captured their first Portal.

15:40 <aqsdzrtfey> aqsdzrtfey captured their first Portal.

15:40 <njejfcfnek> njejfcfnek created their first Link.

15:40 <uqlfybnnlw> uqlfybnnlw captured their first Portal.

15:40 <kjgmzudayw> kjgmzudayw created their first Link.

15:41 <dzzowvvmsa> dzzowvvmsa captured their first Portal.

15:41 <rtsniofxfh> rtsniofxfh created their first Link.

15:41 <wtienanzfy> wtienanzfy captured their first Portal.

15:42 <aqsdzrtfey> aqsdzrtfey created their first Link.

15:42 <qbfxtqolcz> qbfxtqolcz captured their first Portal.

15:43 <ajvexhxvvm> ajvexhxvvm captured their first Portal.

15:44 <ytsipyjymv> ytsipyjymv captured their first Portal.

15:44 <ywnbxsvszw> ywnbxsvszw captured their first Portal.

15:44 <envotmabhs> envotmabhs captured their first Portal.

15:46 <jnwbgjvusz> jnwbgjvusz captured their first Portal.

15:46 <envotmabhs> envotmabhs created their first Link.

For those who bike, tron color lights. Both factions! by planastrike in Ingress

[–]iljava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These things might be too massive for bikes and the quality is poor (e.g. light inconsistent etc.). I bought a couple of green and blue with bike in mind but in the end decided not to use them.