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 30M threshold
- The 30M threshold is cumulative and not unique deploys
- Upgrading reso that you already deployed will not count towards medal, upgrading another agents reso, will. (Not sure how continuous leapfrogging would be counted)
- Dec 20 – Dec 30
More info on 2020 Events – Anomalies and flashpoints https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/brian-rose-blogs-about-ingress-flashpoints-and-anomaly-opportunities-in-2020/
Events Update w/ locations: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/7916/2020-event-update/
Ingress – Look back at 2019 https://t.co/TeZTXn4u4i
Ingress Update 2.38.3
- Feature: Agent Avatars
- Hypercubes now take over for Lawsons and Circle K cubes
Wayfarer checkin https://nianticlabs.com/blog/wayfarer-checkin/
Niantic 2019 Social impact report: https://nianticlabs.com/blog/sireport19/
Next First Saturday – Jan. 4 2020
MDAS II: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/website/8588/