SUBJECT: Unscheduled NL-1331 meetup
DATETIME: Sat Dec 7 from 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Hennessey's Tavern - Laguna Beach, California
RSVP: https://lu.ma/9l0mh30q

#Ingress #IngressMissionDay #IngressShards #NL1331

For the first time ever, the Klue 2016 medal is now freely available to purchase in the Scanner store for 30,800 CMU.

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#ErasedMemories Skirmish on 30 Nov concluded with ENL 80.0 : 112.6 RES.
Congratulations to the Resistance!
Thank you Agents.

For further breakdown: https://ingress.com/news/2024-erasedmem-results
C.O.R.E Subscribers may download Shard Jump record via Intel Map

Share your SITREP with #Ingress

A note from Brian looking back at 2024 and teasing some new stuff.

https://note.com/brianrose/n/nd12cc6deb942

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The Events tab on Intel is now active. If it doesn't work for you, use this link.

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The Shard game in Meiji Park has begun! You can follow the action with a remote link.

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Quote from an Agent on ground:

SHARDS HELL!!!!

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With the latest Ingress update, the "Native Frame Rate" toggle in the settings was removed. Instead, the setting is now enabled by default and cannot be turned off.

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The Drone apparently got upgraded with an afterburner! The animation for moving the Drone has been sped up, drastically reducing the waiting time before hacking the new Portal.

(GIF not sped up)

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Dev Diary about the new Scanner Rendering has been posted!

https://ingress.com/news/2024dev-scannerrenderingupdate

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Some interesting stuff:

- Greatly reduced post-processing, which might fix the bug some people experienced when OCing that causes thin Glyph lines to appear
--> If you updated and still experience this bug, please open a bug report in the app

- Average Scanner app startup time from cold start is 2.3 seconds faster
- Average Drone move time is 1.0 second faster
- Average Agent Profile open time is 0.5 seconds faster

- Native Refresh Rate is the standard of the new rendering system Unity uses, as the native refresh rate of a device is generally best for the battery life as it reduces extra work to "throttle" Ingress

- Niantic mentiones once again that Ingress is intended to "stay long-term", even though the team working on it is quite small

Do read through the full article, it is quite interesting anyway: https://ingress.com/news/2024dev-scannerrenderingupdate

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We are aware of a login issue affecting Facebook login for all Niantic apps. We are working with Facebook to address this issue. In the meantime, please try another login method if one is available.

If you are unable to access Niantic Apps after upgrading from Android 14 to Android 15, please double check that location services are enabled for each application.
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The latest update changed a lot of code related to rendering in the game which also came with a few bugs. Some of them have been confirmed by Niantic via various Social Media comments from Brian and Alex, the technical designer that has worked on the update. We have compiled a small list below.

🔸No colors when scanning
When recording a Portal Scan, the camera feed does not reflect the color of the Portal and you cannot see which area you have already scanned.
NIA comment (Brian): "This is a known issue [...]. We're still investigating different options here."

🔸Thin glyph lines during Overclock
Even though Niantic hoped that it was fixed with the latest update, it sadly still appears from time to time.
NIA comment (Alex): "Ah, thats a shame. It seems to be the most elusive bug."

🔸Visibility issues under multi-layered fields
In an area with multiple layered fields, other Links, Portals and roads are hard to see.
NIA comment (Alex): "Signal received. I am investigating this issue now. [...] We will definitely fix this in the next update."

(Note that these comments come from the personal Social Media accounts of Brian and Alex and are therefore not written 'professionally'. Don't mind the more casual wording.)

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Attending an Anomaly today and hacking Covert Caches? Make sure to upload your Media to ingress.plus/media after the Anomaly is over to help in the preservation efforts of Media!

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A new Campaign awaits every day from 22 Dec to 31 Dec!
Unlock special rewards and get ready for the "New Year 2025" medal, coming to the store on 1 Jan.

Read more: https://ingress.com/news/2024-newyearcountdown2025

#Ingress #NewYear2025

🤖 ML AUTO DECISION ISSUE

NianticTintino has shared a post that the ML system had an issue causing some incorrect auto-accepts and incorrect auto-rejects.

It has now had it’s auto-reject feature re-enabled but the auto-accept of ML is still being investigated so you won’t see any quick accepts now.

In the meantime, all nominations and edits that are not automatically rejected will continue to be reviewed by the community.

Niantic is sending out their annual survey asking Agents for feedback and opinions on some questions. This year the survey includes some interesting "What if" questions such as what would need to be included in a higher tier of C.O.R.E. for you to subscribe to it or how you feel about some ideas regarding new features.

Check your emails and make sure to fill out the survey! We will post interesting questions here once we get access to it as well.

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