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Systemically = the solution works effectively for everyone and doesn't require ad hoc manual intervention. It's not Thia's job to manage people's inventory and people shouldn't have to reach out to her (through a mechanism that doesn't exist, AFAIK) to ask her for favors whenever they want to do so.

Well, as with @starwort's example above, if I had to guess (my memory is a bit fuzzy), those "punishments" impacted RES in the exact same way. So, my two cents, they're not in the same category as the Osiris RES medal and glyph sequence, which are an aberration in a game that's otherwise treated the in-scanner experience of the two factions equally.

Edit: To clarify, as I recall it, part of the problem with that Osiris medal is that it was announced so late into the series that there was a fair argument to be made that Agents might have done things differently had it been announced earlier — like, if you knew that that was what was at stake, you might have played differently.

I miss Joe

I miss Krug

Then I was provided bad intel, sorry folks.

I edited my original post to prevent any more confusion.

As part of the tessellation event, forums badges such as tracker, discoverer and first discoverer were given out during the event.

With the closure of the forums, will there be any chance if this will be migrated to reddit or into the scanner someway for those agent contribution?

Time travel back with me a little bit to pre-Machina Ingress

Imagine that you are the only player within 100 miles. Ingress would not be very interesting for you because there's rarely going to be any competition. There have always been a few people in this situation and over the last couple of years a lot more have found themselves without opposition. Ingress really isn't a very good game in those circumstances.

Now, imagine the opposite extreme and every single person on the planet plays Ingress. That wouldn't be a very fun game either because everything would be a highly-contested area with no ability to ever build up high level portals or control an area. Ingress isn't a very good game at this extreme either.

Somewhere between those two extremes there's a sweet spot for Ingress where there's enough competition to make the game interesting but not enough for the playfield to become perpetual chaos. I don't know how to quantify that sweet spot but it's obvious to me that it exists and that getting too far outside of it makes the game less interesting.

Machina has been introduced to help players out in areas that have very little competition, and it does help some but it's not a replacement. Machina can't throw an annoying field over you, and it won't care if you throw one over it. It's never going to (deliberately) throw a strategic blocking link, it's not going to smash up your farm, and it's never going to rent a 15-passenger van and roll hundreds of P8s through a city. It's an interesting chaos agent but it's not active opposition.

Competing as a team against another team is what makes Ingress great, IMO. Unfortunately it is likely to be its downfall as well since it needs to retain a minimum player base but there's also a cap on how big the game can get and still be fun. That makes me sad, but unless the game radically adapts it will be the eventual outcome.

Well, if you never respond to posts or interact with the community...it won't work. Not sure why it wasn't someone's first 15-30 minutes of their day to check the forums and actually respond to posts other than a few bug threads.

For the record, greenvam is not one of my backpacks.