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Sooooo..... The town I go to school in finally got their shit together and we actually have a pretty active Ingress community now. I've gone through 4 ranks in the past 3 days. I've had the game since this time last year.
I have this shitty Samsung Transfix, and I have no idea what to do with it. Any ideas?
[QUOTE=Killowatt;42173090]I have this shitty Samsung Transfix, and I have no idea what to do with it. Any ideas?[/QUOTE]
Load up some emulators and classic games on it. Anything NES/SNES/GBA should work fine, and the physical keyboard makes a nice controller.
Or let me give you a few bucks for it :v:
My Chromecast from Amazon is finally shipped, ordered in a window where they delivered to Australia. So cool to see it in GNow, didn't think that card worked here.
[QUOTE=sdwise;42172002]Sooooo..... The town I go to school in finally got their shit together and we actually have a pretty active Ingress community now. I've gone through 4 ranks in the past 3 days. I've had the game since this time last year.[/QUOTE]
Wrong thread?
Is there a real Ingress thread? I thought people talked about it here since it's only on Android.
[QUOTE=Leestons;42173406]Wrong thread?[/QUOTE]
Naw, just saying. It's android related, and we haven't talked about it in a while. Is there a thread?
Not that I have seen around here. And speaking of Ingress, having an L8 portal hackable from the loungeroom is awesome.
[QUOTE=Del91;42173625][url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.ingress&hl=en[/url]
oh[/QUOTE]
Were you unaware?
Never heard of it.
It's the shit, as long as you've got players in your community.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;42171586]The compression could at least be not shitty looking. It's like a bad content aware scale.[/QUOTE]
Lower the picture resolutions deastically is your only option.
[QUOTE=Van-man;42174625]Lower the picture resolutions deastically is your only option.[/QUOTE]
but muh 8 megapixels
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Who here has been actively playing Ingress?
[QUOTE=garychencool;42177017]Who here has been actively playing Ingress?[/QUOTE]
I've been trying to make an effort but when you're level 1 and have literally no effect on anything it wears out quickly.
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42177074]I've been trying to make an effort but when you're level 1 and have literally no effect on anything it wears out quickly.[/QUOTE]
field, field, field. Little triangles. Find a good place to farm fields. You'll rank up so fast.
[editline]13th September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=garychencool;42177017]Who here has been actively playing Ingress?[/QUOTE]
Just started. My community was dead, then I went home from school for the summer, then I got back and it's crazy active. I'm having a blast now, a over a year after I've started playing the game.
[QUOTE=sdwise;42177260]field, field, field. Little triangles. Find a good place to farm fields. You'll rank up so fast.
[editline]13th September 2013[/editline]
Just started. My community was dead, then I went home from school for the summer, then I got back and it's crazy active. I'm having a blast now, a over a year after I've started playing the game.[/QUOTE]
My entire house is covered in a field. The portals creating it are like, a kilometer apart though. No thanks
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42177337]My entire house is covered in a field. The portals creating it are like, a kilometer apart though. No thanks[/QUOTE]
It's literally the only way to do it. Look on the Intel map online, make sure you go all the way down to see L0 portals, and find a farm you can go to. If you live near a university or another big public thing, it should have some. Is there an active community where you are?
[QUOTE=sdwise;42177415]It's literally the only way to do it. Look on the Intel map online, make sure you go all the way down to see L0 portals, and find a farm you can go to. If you live near a university or another big public thing, it should have some. Is there an active community where you are?[/QUOTE]
I assume on my university there is, but I haven't actually went to see one. I spend most of my time on campus actually doing schoolwork anyway, but I know there are a bunch of portals there.
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42177447]I assume on my university there is, but I haven't actually went to see one. I spend most of my time on campus actually doing schoolwork anyway, but I know there are a bunch of portals there.[/QUOTE]
Take a saturday or something. Once you have the portals claimed, it's not too hard to start fielding up. You'll be so happy with the speed of the ranking.
I don't have the items or anything to even touch the portals on campus. I can hack 'em, but my XMP bursters or whatever they're called do 1% damage to resonators a pop. I feel like a fly in a world of mega death wasps.
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42177563]I don't have the items or anything to even touch the portals on campus. I can hack 'em, but my XMP bursters or whatever they're called do 1% damage to resonators a pop. I feel like a fly in a world of mega death wasps.[/QUOTE]
Well, if you're an R1, your bursters won't touch a L3 or more portal that's filled and charged 100%. Let alone clearing mods.
Have you used the comm? Introduce yourself, say where you are (you'll probably be getting chatter from other cities), and see if there's an organized group on your side. If you see portals in your area changing hands, there's definitely someone on your side near you. Go to the "all" side of the comm, tap the name of the person on your team in your town, and ask them to team up with you (make sure it's public and preferably with a group).
Farm for items, then see if there are any L0 (unclaimed) portals you can go get. If not, find some portals your team owns, hack them, try to build some fields.
It really is a game of cooperation. Being anti-social will get you nowhere. Being pretty anti-social myself, I know how hard it can be to talk to people and get something going, but the gratification of [i]finally[/i] seeing your AP fill up and ranks blow by will make it totally worth it. If there's absolutely no one playing in your area (if your house is under a field, then there probably is someone there, even if the field isn't on your side) take matters into your own hands. Submit churches, public works of art, important buildings at your uni and try to get some more portals up. If you build it, they will come (eventually). Then you get to be the ring leader of your group!
MMy group here uses a private group hangout to chat and we have a private google+ page. You get ahold of local people on the comm, tell them the link to the private G+ page, when they request to join the group, send them a hangout message asking for a screnshot of their scanner (to insure they're on your team), then admit them and invite them to the private chat. All of this is dependent upon your community not being organized yet, though.
I imagine there's a very active group on campus because I just went and looked on the map and the entire thing is a Resistance field. I'm Resistance so I can't do much but hack the portals for items (which isn't a bad thing I guess, just slow for progress.)
I was going to play with my buddy but he's a retard who got an iPhone 4 6 months ago (Who would even get an iPhone 4 in 2013, he constantly complains about how slow it is) but that's obviously out the window.
I bet a lot of the people in my comp sci classes play it.
Yeah, see who owns the portals on campus and @mention them in the comm. I bet they're at least sort of organized.
Pfffft finally nuked this portal next to work, only took 8 hacks and like a dozen xmp bursters.
now I own my first portal!
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42178754]Pfffft finally nuked this portal next to work, only took 8 hacks and like a dozen xmp bursters.
now I own my first portal![/QUOTE]
Excellent! Can you hack it from your workstation? If so, put a multi-hack on that sucker and go crazy!
I already burned the portal out :C
Good game, game. Good game indeed.
Thought I'd get in on Ingress and see what my area is like. A couple of level 1 portals only 300m away and a resistance member just around the corner from me. More than I expected for where I am.
Also, what are peoples opinions on Apex Launcher? I replaced the default one on my Nexus 4 so I could change things around a tiny bit more. It seems to be a lot better than the default. I assume if I uninstall it the default Launcher will automatically take its place though?
[QUOTE=hexpunK;42179008]Thought I'd get in on Ingress and see what my area is like. A couple of level 1 portals only 300m away and a resistance member just around the corner from me. More than I expected for where I am.
Also, what are peoples opinions on Apex Launcher? I replaced the default one on my Nexus 4 so I could change things around a tiny bit more. It seems to be a lot better than the default. I assume if I uninstall it the default Launcher will automatically take its place though?[/QUOTE]
Don't uninstall the original, it's a system app. Just set apex as the default launcher. And I prefer Nova, but apex is a close second and others like it more.
[editline]13th September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Protocol7_2;42178959]I already burned the portal out :C
Good game, game. Good game indeed.[/QUOTE]
Also, don't get upset when some fucking toad rolls through and levels everything you've built. It happens (happened to me last night). Just look at it as an opportunity to get more AP.
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