87: Battle Beacons & the Kureze Effect

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Today on the show:

Jan 7th was Sojourner Day 2,500!
Kureze Effect – Phase 1 (January)
- https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/17846/kureze-effect-the-formation-phase-1
Kureze Effect Phase One Cities
- https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/17901/kureze-effect-the-formation-phase-1-locations/
  - Close to us – Chicago – Atlanta – Philly – Boston – Minneapolis?
- The XM Researchers may identify some of these Portals and ornament some of them in the Scanner during the 24-hour period ahead.
- An interaction on a Battle Beacon will be counted for any one of these actions: Resonator deploy/upgrade, Resonator attack/destroy, Mod destroy, Link destroy, Recharge.
- Scores will be published at this link. – https://bit.ly/AAKureze (Case Specific)
- Wins in NIA deployed Battle Beacons multiply beacon scores by 10. Agent deployed beacons scores X1.
Changes to the scanner / Ingress since the last show?
- Niantic Lightship AR in the scanner (Meshing)
- Niantic Social
- Battle Beacons – Rare and Very Rare
- Virtual First Saturdays
- Second Sunday Mission Days
- Epoch Medal (Hacking Streaks)
- 7 day hacking streaks
- Helloween, Christmas medals
- Level 8 Day Medal
- Meet you out there challenge (Courier) Medal
- Drones
  - Drone Hacks
  - Drone Recalls
- Maverick Medals – (Drone Hacks)
- C.O.R.E. subscription
- Niantic Achievements (Airship on Stats Page)
- Portal Scans
- Scout medal (submit portal scans)
- Scout Controler (Scout Controller on Unique Portals)
- Adventure Sync
- Kinetic Capsule
- Apex?
- Tessellation Ended? – Knight of Tessellation Medal
- Happy New Years from agents around the world! (Brian Rose – Bumpfuzzies) – might be good for preshow preroll?? 26 minutes – lots of Spanish. Most places across the globe are represented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq1kspdt7Y