Ingress AMA Archive

A1: Like Perth and Darwin and Adelaide, etc...? Short. Answer is we're definitely coming back, can't tell you when but the only way for you to get the medal is for us to come back.

A2: Don't know the release date. I'll write that down and ask about it. I'm aware that it isn't working, because I had it but it stopped working.

A3: I don't think they'll allow me to come back if I told you because I'd be fired.

A4: There will be a time when both will work. 50 agents from Camp Navarro will get access in next two months.

A5: In Ingress Prime, probably not. What was your agent name again?

A6: Define anomaly... I would be surprised if there wasn't any sort of event. I can't tell you whether it's a traditional anomaly, or some other event.

A7: You'll know in the next couple weeks

A8: Pokemon Go definitely got inspiration for Community Day from FS, I have a goal of doubling down on FS and maybe a tiered. Medal, definitely amping them up, it's definitely a goal for me in making them bigger.

A9: I know there is a desire to update the bio card website with intl shipping and update it for the style and to give you a PDF version to take to printers. They're definitely in the works, I don't know when that's going to happen.

A10: I had a lager the other day. I'm shocked by the prices but we're being hosted by a bar so I won't say any more. No idea what the lager was called, though.

A11: No, but I was lucky enough to get one. I enjoyed a lot.

A12: Exo5 is definitely out.

A13: It should be released a day or two ahead of time. I don't know why it's not released before, I'll ask about it.

A14: The rule is that they're disallowed on private residential property, private corporate property is not part of that rule. Only personal property where one family has control.

A15: We now have a system for monitoring recharging for portals, next opportunity and we'll put it in. I'm a huge proponent for it, so if we can put checks and balances we will put it back in. We had some issues where the system was being abused.

A16: There's always a question of whether you give a different badge for off-site participation... Not sure about a tiered badge, there's already a recharge badge. There's definitely been conversations around a different medal for off-site, so you'd have the opportunity to earn two badges. Not an issue of whether we can do it, but whether it's the right thing to do.

A17: Interesting. [Unsure whether this was written down.]

A18: I've been advocating for it, I don't think we'll get it before 2.0. I'm a fan so I'll bring it up again. It's part of the spirit of the game. I wrote it down.

A19: Legally, I have no idea whether it is wintrading. Personally I think it's against the spirit of the game. If you're coordinating in advance with the other team, my personal opinion is that it's wintrading. If it's spontaneous it's different, but if it's planned it's wintrading.

A20: I've heard about this, there was an email sent by one of my colleagues out that stated that at least in Europe they've been put on paused until ingress 2. I need to look into that.

A21: It'll be in Ingress Prime

A22: If you're actively coordinating, that is wintrading. Unsure whether that is what NIA Ops considers wintrading.

A23: Direct all complaints to the gentleman in the back!

A24: I think it would be a really good thing, I'll write it down.

A25: I can't answer that. Again, I think everything will be answered in the next couple of weeks.

A26: I will bring that up.

A27: I don't know but I preface that with the fact that Ingress will be upgraded to the same back end as Pokemon Go, So I think in time yes, but I can't really say. I don't think it'll be there at launch. I can't say conclusively.

A28: good idea.

A29: Lots of key management changes coming in Ingres Prime, not sure how much will be there at launch but there's going to be changes coming.

A30: I'll write that down.

A31: Just had a conversation about this, I don't know that any things going to be there at launch, I recognise the importance. The other thing is we're looking at a licence or endorsement to tools that do not negatively impact the community. It is in the very early stages and we need to get lawyers to sign off on it, and look at how that might change liability.

A32: I'm not sure how NIA Ops defines it, my guess is that right now it is against the ToS. We also know it is not really something that hurts anyone. You'll notice that in our social media posts we use the words "negatively impact the community" because we recognise that some tools are benign. [Andrew qualified this by saying that the base tools are benign, but there's nothing to stop someone from making a malicious plugin that might be harmful.]

A33: Not to my knowledge.

A34: I have no idea. [They do.]

A35: I'll write it down, I've been asked about it at every stop so far. I've pinged devs about it, but I wouldn't hold my breath, just because the focus is on getting prime to launch.

A36: I've not heard anything personally but I'll write it down and bring it up.

A37: We've discussed creating an instance where only registered agents have access. I don't think we would want to remove the ability for people to interact with the play box just to make everything neutral, because it's a core game mechanic. It's something we've talked about.

A38: Mission days are a lot more sporadic and it's [NL-1331] not a badge we want people to get in twelve months. It's to promote us going out and people coming.

A39: No, we can't track attendance with accuracy as badges were distributed on cards.

A40: Ethan: Good question. The badge is high because it's meant to last forever. There won't be a new one, so it will need to last the life of Ingress. We recognise the need for us to increase the frequency of our visits so we're looking at coming yearly. We've discusaed where we go from where we are, coming back to Australia is a reality and so is having a larger presence in Asia. It's not meant to be attained in a week or a year or even two years. It's meant to motivate us and you to come back and do these events.

A41: I don't have an eta, but the OPR crew is working on it.

A42: Don't know the answer but I'll write it down. Reviewing edits in OPR is coming soon.

A43: Short term, no, long term I imagine they'll adjust it but I don't know.

A44: No I can't show you Ingress Prime, Japan had something special happen where the embargo was lifted and it was a very early beta. I have it on my phone but it doesn't work because they took me off the whitelist.

A45: We are definitely internally talking about what to do. Lots of conversations about what to do, remove, change it. For example, you could make it so that if you can hold 10 portals for a day that would count as a point. Nothing has been decided, I know they're going to try to come to a decision in the next month. We'll keep you informed.

A46: I'm really tired and dehydrated.

A47: Honestly I haven't heard of any personally.

A48: We're talking about it, we need to talk about how you can level and the benefits of it, and how it'll impact the economy of the game.

A49: I do.

A50: No, and I love meat pie. I had one before I left, does that count?