70: An Ingress Christmas from the Agent Academy
Today on the show: Andrew Krug is leaving Niantic at the end of the month/year Scanners getting borked – Don’t freak when it asks you to choose a faction?! Shut down – move – wait – reboot New Decoding challenge Destroy / Deploy event https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/new-ingress-event-from-dec-20-2019-to-dec-30-2019-good-ol-destroy-deploy/ Clarifications: Deploys – not upgrades – will count towards to […]
New Ingress Event From Dec 20, 2019 to Dec 30, 2019 – Good ol’ Destroy / Deploy
Agents, From December 20th, 1800 UTC to December 30th, 1800 UTC, we need your help in defeating Umbra. A global challenge has been issued to all agents to deploy 30,000,000 unique resonator slots before the Global Challenge window ends on December 30th. For the duration of this special event, the following modifiers to resonator deployment […]
The History of Ingress
Tampa Ingress Agent Conner Tumbleson posted a history of Ingress way back in 2016 that has some interesting info on the early days of Ingress. If you were curious about how we got to here with Ingress this is a good read. READ PART 1 HERE.
Brian Rose blogs about Ingress Flashpoints and Anomaly opportunities in 2020
Brian Rose, Producer for Ingress at Niantic Labs has made a new post on the Ingress Community forums about upcoming 2020 Anomalies and events. The things we talked about on the show now make a bit more sense as the Hexathalons appear to be flashpoint events contributing to the overall anomaly score with the anomaly […]
69: Dreaming of Ingress
Today on the show: Operation Essex now has a badge on the Agent Academy. You can find out how to get it by going to the page: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/community-badges/operation-essex/ Decoders contest – new leaderboard to run alongside original leaderboard Problem was traced back to those Agents who entered the passcode via Intel Map. No Time Stamp […]
New Avatars Announced!
Let’s toast the new avatars coming in the 2.39 update to Ingress Prime! You will have the option to purchase a new avatar. The first 3 that will be made available are the original green and blue avatars as well as the toast avatar that was used in the April Fool’s event. We are […]
Update to 13 Archetypes Challenge. Are you missing from the leader board? Here’s why.
If you’re wondering why your name is missing from the leaderboard, Niantic has posted this information: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/51998#Comment_51998 NianticCase Hi Agents, Thanks for your participation in the Dreamer 1 decoding challenge. We’ve been watching the leaderboard and are aware that some of you have solved the challenge and entered the correct passcode but aren’t appearing there. […]
Hank Johnson Available in the Store
Niantic Labs announced on their twitter that you can now purchase the “Archives: Hank Johnson Bundle” and if it does well that they will start adding a new bundle each month. The bundle costs 30,800 Chaotic Matter and you can get 32,000 CMU for $19.99 US The bundle includes: Hank Johnson (2018) in-app medal XMP […]
13 Archetypes, 13 Weeks
Each week, Niantic Labs will be posting a new decoding challenge for agents to solve. This will last for 13 weeks. 1 for each Archetype. You can see the full information on the Ingress website: https://ingress.com/decoding/13archetypes As the weeks pass, we will post the information on how the solution was obtained for each decoding challenge. […]
68: 2 Frozen Hosts Who Learn, What’s In The Capsule
Today on the show: Swag from Krug/Niantic – Expect Give away Event – DEC 9 – Over the next 13 weeks (one per week) encoded challenges will be released on http://community.ingress.com , in the Decoding Challenges section. Who among you will solve these Archetype challenges? The first challenge will be posted at Dec 09 17:00 […]