Agent Academy - An Ingress Podcast

It's Unknown what we will be talking about tonight. Tune in to hear us possibly discussing Ingress.

Discussing Ingress and Current News and Events

SitRep: First Saturday changes  Choice of virtual or in person First Saturday is coming  Kythera Phase FINAL Niantic has updated the score of Kythera Phase 3 as of Jun 26 9:00 UTC: Agent-deployed Battle Beacon: ENL 42,958 RES 37,812 Projected score: ENL 138 - RES 122 NIA-deployed Rare Battle Beacon: ENL 36,371 RES 29,356 Final score ENL 700.5 - RES 599.5 Shard: ENL 88 vs 34 RES  After two years, double L7 Resonators deploy is now officially over!  Niantic Social is now Niantic Campfire! Campfire will still be available in Ingress, but in addition, a separate app will be released soon.  Niantic would like to thank all the agents who have tested Niantic Campfire in the open beta so far. The ability to create new groups in Campfire will be temporarily disabled. Inactive Campfire groups has be removed? as of June 23, 2022. All active Ingress groups will remain on Campfire and owners/admins will continue to have full control over the groups. Your Campfire map will not display any Ingress groups or events until further notice. Regional chat will be temporarily removed. Finally, Niantic will be introducing a Choose Your Own Adventure experience in the near future, led by K... Stay tuned for more information and instructions on Campfire.  Niantic has announced that starting with Ingress 2.95 scheduled for mid-July, Ingress will require Android 8 and iOS 14 to run.  In a new statement about their gameplay policy enforcement, Niantic stated they have "invested in becoming better at observing cheating behaviors, and can now more reliably pinpoint these activities with higher speed and accuracy, preventing legitimate players from being punished incorrectly. As a result, we will be ramping up enforcement against these behaviors across our games, and rolling out our improved approach to anti-cheat." These changes will be implemented across all games, starting with Pokémon Go.  Munich “Anomaly” - Superposition (was Requiem?) The Superposition Anomaly medal will be awarded by interacting with 10 NIA-deployed or Agent-deployed Battle Beacons: During the July event weekend, and Munich will be the only city in which NIA deploys Rare Battle Beacons that weekend? Friday July 29 NIA TKO Stealth Ops (hosted by GORUCK) Saturday 30 Battle Beacon and City Shard battles NIA TKO Urban Ops (hosted by GORUCK) Cross-Faction after-event party! Expect: Agent Marketplace (apply here (https://forms.gle/GMvNSES1H6MPtB9W6) for a space by 3 July), stat games, food & beverages. Sunday 31 Operation Clear Field (hosted by GORUCK) Mission Day (in collaboration with local Agents) During the August event weekend, and the 10 selected impact zones will be the only areas in which NIA deploys Rare Battle Beacons that weekend Get in touch with your faction players before the event: 🟢 ENL: https://requiem-munich.rocks/ RES: https://munich.willbe.blue/ August Primary Sites: 10 preselected Impact Zones Want your location to be considered for hosting a Superposition anomaly on this day? (Day?) Apply by July 3rd: https://forms.gle/iA2V4jDcATzuvguS8 An enlightened and a resistance point of contact are requested. Sunday 28 Battle Beacon and City Shard battles  NEW WORLD RECORD - 456 layered fields On 26 June 2022, Resistance agents from Perth, Western Australia completed Operation KiloMAF. Operator was an agent we have had on before 57Cell!

Today on the show: Kythera Phase 1 What is the Kythera Mechanism and its purpose? https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/18786/kythera-phase-1 Ornaments showing up on the map! Phase 1 on 15-18th Apr – Rules: Worldwide: BOLO NIA-deployed Rare Battle Beacons on Sun 17 Apr Worldwide: 72-hour of Agent-deployed Battle Beacons Score weighted by Battle Category For more details: https://bit.ly/ING-Kyth-P1-39ND-EN SCORING … 93: Vainless in Kythera Read More »