Ingress AMA Archive

A1: As long as they meet the criteria for being portals I don't see why not.

A2: There is no pattern. Whenever I finish my Monday duties that take precedence, that is when I post the AMAs. I gotta pay the bills first.

A3: My personal favorite is something that we all know is coming, one finger screen interactions.

A4: The short answer is that, per our Privacy Policy https://nianticlabs...., we use it to make the game better and improve the services.

A5: <insert Goodfellas movie quote> I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? </end quote> So Peanut's mom...

A6: Hell yes!

A7: Initially, probably not as initially we'll want to make sure there is feature parity between 1.0 and 2.0. But after things are stable I presume there will be a lot of cool thing introduced.

A8: 18%

A9: I've been known to walk around town with my volume up to 11 so people can hear the Resonator destroyed sound. Yeah... I'm that guy. So destroying probably if was forced to pick and it didn't include operating or strategic planning.

A10: Because you are both looking in the same direction.

A11: I can't promise a specific outcome but send me a HO or TG message with the details and I'll see what can be done.

A12: Variety is the spice of life.

A13:

A14: The short answer is yes, but I can't comment on it publicly. But a few new things have been implemented.

A15: Portal keys disappear when a portal is deactivated.

A16: You mean besides the fact you have to spin a portal to hack items, throw your resonators to place them, and try to catch XM in a ball? /s

A17: I'm going to get myself in trouble... but what the hell... there will be some very cool things to come to key management. I am excited for it at least based on what I've seen. At what point will it get implemented for 2.0 I do not know.

A18: That's a really cool idea actually.

A19: This was not a decision made by Niantic unilaterally. Many people had input including locals who lived there and our own employee who traveled to Macau. They were relaying to us what the real situation was. The POCs agreed to adjust the Anomaly Zone and to continue with the event. Even the people at the registration venue told us to come and continue as planned. At the end of the day, people were able to travel to Macau, play safely without impacting any of the clean up efforts, and have fun giving a needed boost to the economy when they needed it most. The event occurred without any incidents and therefore I personally think it was the right call. There are some inflammatory and hyperbolic posts on social media about the topic. However, the truth speaks for itself.

A20: Here are the Phase 1 start times for September: Seoul: 3pm Bali: 2pm Galle: 11:30am Stockholm/Ljubljana/Turin: 2pm Belo Horizonte: 2pm DC: 1pm Kansas City: Noon

A21: Just provide NIA OPS the date/time (in UTC) and link to the portal in question. If you need things escalated just shoot me a message.

A22: That is the way it is currently designed.

A23: We are waiting on final confirmation on a couple of things before we can announce the cities.

A24: They are part to the series in name and the winners received Intel about the Anomaly. However, the Anomaly score is not impacted by Navarro or the Olympiad.

A25: Well... there is an Anomaly there in quarter four.

A26: Tell her she can pick the opposite team as you battle you for resources and if she gets good enough she can make you join her faction because she has become the better Agent.

A27: Probably not.

A28: It is hard to make a blanket statement about something that is subjective. I will say that they should be considered though, in my opinion.

A29: As soon as my schedule frees up a little more.

A30: Not at this time.

A31: I really want to do something but just need a little more free time.

A32: There were, regrettably, some errors this weekend that impacted events in a negative way. We are in the process of determining what the root cause of the issues was. In most, if not all cases, we have figured out the root cause out. We are making some adjustments to the execution of certain tasks and ensuring proper lines of communication are open and processes followed. We will do our best to mitigate these issues from occurring in the future.

A33: We are not talking about state secrets or anything really important. If someone wants to know about my mother's lasagna reciepe they can have it.

A34: I have no idea. I don't work for them and don't know when it was shared.

A35: The goal is to still get something out by the end of the year. As I've been saying for a while, what that looks like is still to be determined.

A36: Accessing another agent’s profile is energy intensive. Cool-down periods ensure that a scanner does not destabilize while querying multiple agent profiles.

A37: Stay tuned and follow youtube.com/ingress.

A38: Well 1) I like lists. 2) They are part of a G+ collection. 3) I could do both so if people just miss one they don't have to comb through a collection to find the one they missed. 4) See #1.

A39: I think what exists is what exists.

A40: No. The reality is, every time someone asks I get another gray hair in my beard.

A41: What you describe sounds a lot like instancing. Basically creating another instance of the portal network that only a select group of people can join and play in. As a long time gamer I am a fan of instancing for many reasons. However, I don't think we should limit participation to only those people physically present. Going by the current game mechanics there is a lot of support that can be performed by remote participants who cannot attend. We don't know exactly what the future holds for future game mechanics. There may very well be a remote competitive aspect. So I think we should keep the door open on that.

A42: I think John Oliver would reply, "Because f@@k safety."

A43: Yes.

A44: Does it "have to be"? No. It is not required.

A45: Fan-flipping-tastic!

A46: I don't think playgrounds in general are allowed. Someone can correct me if I am wrong. If there was a work of art in the common area it would be allowed because it is not a single family private residence. Edit: I am wrong

A47: Send me a HO or TG message with the information.

A48: I honored to be asked and to perform the wedding ceremony of two Agents at a Resistance after party. That's the second time for me.

A49: Maybe, because it has less characters so it is cheaper to print. I have no idea.

A50: They are clearly a TOS violation.

A51: In my opinion, yes it does violate the TOS.

A52: This has been discussed. I don't think it'll change for September. But for Q4 in November and December we will look at all of the feedback.

A53: For general play, I think this could be interesting. For Anomalies, it takes the team element away from the event I think.

A54: Contact me.

A55: Yes. But that's all I can say for now.

A56: Last.

A57: They will be a separate series.

A58: I believe there is always room for improvement and we should never stop reviewing and questioning ourselves.

A59: Great question. I think the overall format went really well. There are a few tweaks I would advocate for. But I think we are getting really close to a excellent event format. The registration portals also worked well. It allowed faster pushing of on-site badges. I think having the POCs review the rules prior to them being widely released was a great thing.

A60: Sure... hold on there is a knock at my door though...