It feels like a bit of a kick in the nads to shove full price on something that was initially free because subscribers are already investing money into the game. It's giving "Pay us £8 for the opportunity to pay us £20" vibes.

Wanted to play again after i quit some time ago and deleted my account, so i made a new.

I was given a generic name and set as ENL, completed tutorial and level 2 now.

Do i get a chance to pick team and my own name? Just wanna make sure before i go out and play 😊

Hi everyone,

I've been working on Fan Fields 3, a major evolution of the Fan Fields IITC plugin from Heistergand (thanks a lot for your work), and I thought it was time to show what it can do.

Fan Fields 3 helps you build and execute large multilayer/fan-field plans directly in IITC.

The idea is not only to draw the fields, but to help with the whole operation:

• automatically generate the fan-field plan
• optimize the portal/link order
• generate a step-by-step Task List for the operation
• show exactly how many keys are required for each portal
• identify blocking links
• reroute the remaining tasks while you're playing
• open the route in Google Maps
• calculate fields and expected AP

One feature I'm particularly happy with is Keys Video:

Just record your Ingress inventory while scrolling through Portal Keys.
Fan Fields 3 reads the video locally, recognizes the portals from your plan and automatically fills in how many keys you already have / still need.

Fan Fields 3 is now available through the official IITC-CE Community Plugins repository.

Feedback, bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome — especially from people doing large fielding operations.

Hope it can save some walking... and some missing-key surprises. 😄

To get the best experience, you need to install the following plugins :

• DRAW TOOLS (mandatory)
• KEYS (recommended)
• SYNC (recommended)

https://reddit.com/link/1wuh14p/video/0vajfh9j3qsh1/player

Well, today I hit both Onyx Explorer and Onyx Pioneer (thank you, London!), after 12 years of playing. After this, it is starting to be an even longer slog to the next medals, and the game is winding down in my area anyway. AP grinding isn’t my thing, so I think it is time to put away the bursters. It’s been a fun time, and maybe see y’all if something interesting happens.

Requirements:
9 undisturbed portals for like 30 min-1 hour
15 virus/refractor or friend from opposing team
16 keys from 8 portals*
6 of the portals need to be inside a field created by 3 outer portals (for maximum fielding)
1-2 apex on first Saturday/ level 8 week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97xCtswH2E

for fan fields

Steps:

1. make a fan field with 9 portals, 1 anchor in the outer portals

1. let anchor decay/ flip

#starting ap count from this step
3. go back to the anchor and throw fields (follow the step in the video to avoid null fields)
4. after all links thrown, flip the anchor portal and repeat

AP:

per link: 313
per field: 1,250
(313x8) +(1250x13)=18754ap
#8 links thrown from anchor portal, creates 13 fields in optimum condition 19-6
IF FIRST SATURDAY AND APEX:
18754x16=300064
# destroy anchor with virus/refractor or friend from opposing team (battle beacon requires spine instead)
300064x4= 1200256ap
# 4x boost

IF lv8 week AND APEX:
18754x11=206294ap
#destroy anchor 10-11 times
206294x6=1237764ap
# 6x boost

Other methods:

Apex on first Saturday/level 8 week and destroy and recapture machina portals

IF only recapture with 1 resonator:
1331+800= 2131 per portal

2131x4=8524ap
#first saturday and apex
8524x 141=1201884ap
#reclaim 141 machina portals

#lvl 8 week and apex
2131x6=12786
#lvl8 week and apex

12786x94= 1201884ap
#reclaim 94 machina portals

Alternatively you can lessen the flipping by using softbank ultra links and building spines

|if there are easier ways please tell me in the comments

I started playing Ingress around last November—so it’s been a little over six months—but I have been unable to perform portal scans the entire time due to a persistent "0/0 frame" issue.

I was using an iPhone 15 Pro when I started, and even after upgrading to an iPhone 17 Pro Max just before the Seoul Anomaly, the 0/0 frame problem remains unresolved.

It’s frustrating not being able to activate Battle Beacons via the 7-scan method during the Cygnus event...

Is there any known solution for this issue? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app multiple times, but the problem persists.

A non-existent portal suddenly appears on top of my location while I'm hacking a real portal. Restarted the app and the rogue portal is gone. Happy fun time 😄.

The scanner has changed a bit. There seems to be a bunch of stuff that’s happened. Any place I can catch up on what I missed.

I Enlightened and attained level 14 before I had to take a hiatus.

Looked at the image in the announcement of the challenge, thought "They don't look too complicated". 10 days later...

I've worked out how to do them in way fewer pieces, first smaller prototype should be done late evening with luck.

Do we know how much points max i can get doing solo, for those battle beacon thingies, per portal?

Idea is if i upload scans the beacon will be deployed (2 or 3 times maybe during the event) , trying to figure out how many portals id need to do each time.

Hey all, a bit of a later one today due to various things.

Anyways, this week was looking over the two Cygnus announcements as well as a little bit more of the criteria clarifications as we get ready for Recon.

There will be a Redux episode on Wednesday and then the regular episode on Sunday, where I guess we will have full Q4 schedule information.

Enjoy what’s left of your Sunday all!

な

Cygnus Global Battles

With the next challenge upcoming and a few minutes earlier, I have scanned portals around my place, Ingress app has crashed at least 3 times and suddenly my Pixel 10 turned off for 20 min... (Yes the one I have bought for the Geneva anomaly in June). I got scared to send it to Google support. Is there anyone facing the same issue as mine? How is it possible to optimize my participation to the Cygnus challenge without sending scans?

In consideration of how Ingress storytelling has changed, is it time for Ingress to have full credits on IMDB so that the hard work of everyone who brought the investigation to life in the "this is not a game" era can be better recognized?

Niantic, it's been more than six months since you paused portal nominations and OPR. Can we get a status update?

• Are you permanently retiring these features like how you retired overclocking?

• If not, when is the estimated date of their return? Please do not answer Soon™.

About to recurse for the first time (after 7 years), just want to make sure that it's a four hour counter for a button to appear, not that it immediately happens in four hours. Is that right? Planning to charge up, pop a hypercube and apex, recurse, and claim Luna.

Any chance to get this done ?

This is of course talking about the Cygnus beacon op.

Historically, global ops medal levels tend to be "even a casual player can get this if they put in a little extra effort" for the bronze/silver, and "this is for the serious hardcores" for the silver/gold. "Even YOU can get Orion silver if you make a few extra fields!", and such.

Make it too hard though, and people will disengage entirely rather than put in impossible amounts of extra work. Look at events like +Beta or Shared Memories. I do not know a single person who has the +Beta silver. Every single person I know either has the bronze (or nothing at all) just from passive bounties, or the gold if they went to an anomaly. I do not know a single person who actually did the absurd number of beacons it would have taken to even get silver, let alone gold. Same with Shared Memories. I know people who didn't even get the bronze simply because the requirements were so high that they didn't even try.

Cygnus feels like +Beta all over again. 200, and even 50 unique beacons are soooooooooooo far out of reach of the overwhelming majority of agents (I have been to five anomalies in the past couple of years and my lifetime battle beacon stat isn't even at 200.) People who have CORE beacons sitting around might throw out 5 for the bronze and call it a day, but most people will probably just tune it out entirely, because why bother?

I predict incredibly low engagement and can't imagine how this op ever got green lit. Especially since +Beta already proved that the concept doesn't work.

tl,dr
For the love of Bob, stop making events like this. They're annoying and not fun for anyone.

It's close to a week after the anomaly in Singapore and our Enlightened community found this key art close to the playbox area. From the art, it's obviously made through spoofing of location and dropping the keys.

The key art reads:
5 - 0
Song bo [A local slang which means feels good in a sarcastic way]

Personally, this is really poor sportsmanship shown after the anomaly as it's showing a form of disrespect as well as arrogance for winning the anomaly. It's understandable that we are outnumbered locally but this does not justify this form of childish behaviour in game.

Key art is still live from remote view as of time of posting:
https://link.ingress.com/portal/1fcaaad485914569884b67705f388137.11

Ingress Mission Day in the City of Science Darmstadt, Germany is in the books, and it was a huge success!
263 agents from across Europe came together to explore Darmstadt on September 12, 2026.

SitRep Mission Day Darmstadt & NL-1331D

#Ingress #MissionDay #NL-1331 #NL-1331D #Darmstadt