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Category: ingress

  • Ingress Walks – A 12km path to Level 13

    Reading Time: 4 minutes I stopped playing Ingress a few years ago because of how much time it requires. I have started going on Ingress walks again – a 12km path to level 13 in yesterday’s case, because I’m combining the daily walk that I would do anyway, with listening to podcasts and audiobooks, anyway.…

  • Playing Ingress and Pokemon Go in parallel

    Reading Time: 2 minutes People are playing Ingress and Pokemon Go in Parallel. Both games use the same geo-located points and walk the same routes. They have the same places to farm and combat. I started playing Ingress again, but only a few minutes here and there. As I play I see new faces and…

  • Ingress no more

    Reading Time: < 1 minute For months I was passionate about Ingress. I was passionate about the game until fuel costs, parking costs, device costs and time costs were too high. When you play from level one to eight the game is fun. You progress quickly and you meet new people. You discover new places…

  • Fribourg was liberated by Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Ingress resistance fighters

    Reading Time: < 1 minute This weekend teams of Resistance Ingress agents from Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva met in Fribourg to neutralise and capture all Enlightened portals. Some teams were on foot to liberate portals from the centre of the city. I was with the bike team and we took care of liberating all of…

  • Ingress Operation Apache, Covering Geneva in Blue.

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Operation Apache Ingress is a selfless game when you play as a team. The driver gets no AP. Other operators get a few AP for breaking portals. Three individuals gets hundreds of thousands of Mind Units (MU). Rather than feel a sense of achievement I feel fatigue. The first reason is…

  • Ingress and it’s barrier to entry

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Google has an excellent reputation for server uptime and reliability. They pride themselves on making processes so efficient that hundredths of seconds after a request is sent the answer. As a result of their very high work ethic and desire to excel logic would indicate that Niantic labs would follow the…

  • The Best of Ingressed Obsessed

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  • INGRESS REPORT – Translator, Bucketlist, Unight16 – Raw Feed

    Reading Time: < 1 minute There are around 220 countries around the world and 150 countries will participate in Ingress Saturday next week. That leaves out about seventy countries.

  • A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute People love to submit portals and portals add excitement to Ingress. The more portals there are the busier you are. Cities are fantastic places for ingress players for this reason. Geneva, Barcelona, Neuchatel and other cities already have hundreds if not thousands of portals but go to the swiss countryside,…

  • INGRESS REPORT – Agents Welcome 2015 – Raw Feed Jan 08 2015

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Of course it’s geeky but as a result of playing this game I have decided to walk 3650 km this year. That’s an average of ten per day. I know that some days I can walk a greater distance. We will see by how much I overshoot this goal at…