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Ingress Operation Apache, Covering Geneva in Blue.

May 3, 2015

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in ingress, Switzerland, team work, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesOperation Apache Ingress is a selfless game when you play as a team. The driver gets no AP. Other operators get a few AP for breaking portals. Three individuals gets hundreds of thousands of Mind Units (MU). Rather than feel a sense of achievement I feel fatigue. The first reason is to…

Ingress and it’s barrier to entry

Mar 12, 2015

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richard

in ingress

Reading Time: 3 minutesGoogle has an excellent reputation for server uptime and reliability. They pride themselves on making processes so efficient that hundredths of seconds after a request is sent the answer. As a result of their very high work ethic and desire to excel logic would indicate that Niantic labs would follow the same…

The Best of Ingressed Obsessed

Feb 11, 2015

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richard

in ingress, social media living room, Video, youtube

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INGRESS REPORT – Translator, Bucketlist, Unight16 – Raw Feed

Jan 30, 2015

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richard

in ingress

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are around 220 countries around the world and 150 countries will participate in Ingress Saturday next week. That leaves out about seventy countries.

A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.

Jan 16, 2015

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richard

in ingress, social media, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople love to submit portals and portals add excitement to Ingress. The more portals there are the busier you are. Cities are fantastic places for ingress players for this reason. Geneva, Barcelona, Neuchatel and other cities already have hundreds if not thousands of portals but go to the swiss countryside, the…

INGRESS REPORT – Agents Welcome 2015 – Raw Feed Jan 08 2015

Jan 9, 2015

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richard

in ingress

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOf course it’s geeky but as a result of playing this game I have decided to walk 3650 km this year. That’s an average of ten per day. I know that some days I can walk a greater distance. We will see by how much I overshoot this goal at the…

Gimel’s Ingress Mission

Jan 6, 2015

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richard

in ingress, Swiss walks, Switzerland

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe views as I drove up to this ingress mission were beautiful. I could clearly see the Jet D’eau in Geneva and the streets of Lausanne on the other side. I could see how light was playing with clouds to provide enjoyable views. Gimel is a village/town in the Jura surrounded…

Rolle’s Ingress mission

Jan 5, 2015

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richard

in ingress, Swiss walks

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Rolle Ingress mission starts at the castle and has you walk towards the centre. You then walk along the main street and through an arch back towards the lake side. From here you walk along the lake for a short distance before heading back in to town and the last…

Staring at phones in the rain once again…

Jan 3, 2015

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richard

in fun, social media, social media living room, social networking, travel

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again I was out in the rain walking around a city. Once again I was looking downwards and then up. I was also looking around and navigating through a city I have been to before but only for a meal and on my way to another place. I went there for…

Ingress and the Sony Xperia Z3

Dec 14, 2014

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richard

in ingress, mobile, tech related, Uncategorized

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIngress is a game that requires a data connection, GPS data and the screen to be on. As a result of this battery consumption is high. Earlier today I took the Sony Xperia Z3 out in the rain and played for two solid hours non stop walking from portal to portal…

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