67: Ingress subscriptions, Seven year event, Catan World Explorers and much more!

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Today on the show:

Ingress Update v2.35.2
- Agent Stats Group: https://www.agent-stats.com/groups.php?group=5a166782396828.47041194
- Added updated safety messages to app loading screen.
- Increased XM brightness on high-end devices
- Added portal names to long-press menu on map screen (Also key and no key hack)
- Added help text to indicate why a portal link cannot be created
- Some store items at the end of the items carousel slide
- Bugfix – speculative fix to address soft lock when returning from background
- https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/6552/ingress-2-35-2-release-notes

NianticBrian says they are working on subscription, but until they got that set up, wondered if agents would like a monthly bundle that comes with a medal that increments (but not up to an onyx medal) – https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/6413/subscriptions-in-ingress#latest
Andrew Krug opened up Nov. AMA: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/6495/november-2019-ingress-ama-question-thread/
Ingress Year Seven to start on Friday, November 15th. https://redd.it/doye9g
Trusted Reporter v2.0 has been in beta testing – Krug says it’s going well but need to work on an issue which means it will mostly likely be announced next week.
Agent Warning – Unlinking an account linked to Google & Facebook could cause issues – one account lost
World L6 HFC – 6 LAYER HOMOGENEOUS FIELD (An nth degree homogeneous field is a field that contains n layers in it, but – that’s the important part – across the whole of its surface. Not more or fewer layers in any given spot.) (http://bit.ly/WorldL6HFC )
Wayfarer (https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/) – open to Pokemon players soon? – Niantic Wayfarer review permissions were accidentally made globally available to Pokémon GO players during a maintenance update. This access has been reverted. Thanks for your understanding as we navigate this beta period. We look forward to bringing access to more Trainers soon. – Niantic Support Oct. 25th
Glyph Hacking Issue? – Reports of glyph hack – watch the sequence and it just exits you. Dewey experienced this a couple of times yesterday – chalked it up to cold fingers and low cell service – maybe not
Catan World Explorers – https://catanworldexplorers.com/ – Started as a German board game – world builder / strategy game – Sometimes just called settlers – NOTE – The Tesselation looks a lot like a Catan board