65: New Ingress Vanguards chosen, Ingress Prime Updates, Field Test Hexathlon and MORE!

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Today on the show:

Website – we haven’t had time to add news lately. Not sure that will change till after september.
New Vanguards have been notified. There are 19 new ones to round out those who have been retired. We’ll hear about who they are later.
Big UI overhaul coming in 2.31 – Portal Edits, navigation
- Fields back at ground level? To improve visibility?
- Andrew said they are working on the dialog box and visibility stuff for the next update.
Stat sharing will be in before Oct. 1st
2.30 has started to rollout so people can go download it: http://bit.ly/prime-2-30-2
- Noticeable speed improvement to logging in (just d/l and logged in to see events feature and i had to close it down and restart because i was shocked at the speed. ~10 seconds, down from 16-20 for me)
- Events button located at the bottom of the side bar buttons (settings, scores, nominations, missions, store, events)
- Fixed hanging animation when recharging or in remote view on a contested portal
- XM is now purplish
- Chat messages now save if you cancel and reopen chat
Redacted retired on Sep. 30.
- Ingress version 2.31 will be the last before Redacted is retired
- Player rebellion? TG names with (retired 9-30) on the end of them.
Aurora Glyph Hack Challenge FAIL
- The final result is 17,806,465 Target was 36,000,000
- Until September 4 you get 33 % less Hackoutput during Glyphhacks.
Mudia drops – Stein Lightman Dispatch – cut into 6 parts. All together they say?
Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts (The Register)
- 4 plaintifs get $1,000 each – Lawyers get $4 Million total!
- Niantic has agreed to set up a website and online reporting system for people annoyed by blundering gamers on their land and has said it will resolve 95 per cent of complaints within 15 days.
- NIA removed “Pokestops” close to single-family houses, and has said it will not place new ones close to such houses.
- It will also add warnings to the game telling players to be aware of their surroundings, and will follow the hours of public parks.
AMA answers are out: http://bit.ly/AUGAMA2019
- Next AMA OCT 7th
Field Tests: Hexathlon – http://bit.ly/Hexathlon
- “Unofficial” badges were released – Fake News!
- Individual Challenges
- 30 mins to check in
- 90 mins to complete six individual challenges
- Agents who complete all six challenges will get a badge
- Top 10% for their city for ANY CHALLENGE will receive the elite version of the Hexathlon medal
- You will need to register, and registration pages will be coming soon(possibly in scanner?)
GORUCK announces they will be a part of the Umbra anomalies (stealth ops, operation: clear field and ruck the box events)
Lighting Dynamics setting was added in 2.29.2. You can find it under the main menu settings.