Nelkon

Dies ist mein SitRep über einen Foto- und Ingress-Ausflug an die Moselschleifen im November 2018. Etwas länger her, aber jetzt ich halt die OpSec-Frist abgelaufen ;-) Mit Klick auf die Bilder kommst Du in eine Galerie-Ansicht ohne meine störenden Kommentare und epischen Erzählungen Besuchte Orte: Prinzenkopfturm bei Alf Moselschleife bei Bremm und Calmont Bad Bertlich Reichsburg Cochem Burg Eltz Mertloch

It's gone. The [redacted] scanner is gone. Ingress stays. The Prime scanner is only a tool in a whole ecosystem around this Niantic game. This blogpost is about the things beyond the scanner and I'll tell you a big secret at the end. Ecosystems evolve through change. Some veteran agents used the shutdown of the old scanner as a breaking point to leave the game. The game and the vivid community were a huge part of their life in the past years but now they decided that it's time to move on and to seek out for new inspirations. That's absolutely legit and a sound decision. In order to give them and the [redacted] scanner a worthy goodbye we did a farewell event 09-29-2019 in Cologne (see my Instagram Highlight story for some impressions).

Information for the Ingress banner Wasserburgen-Route At Ingress Mosaik:  https://ingressmosaik.com/mosaic/Wasserburgen-Route Table of Contents Accessibility, Know restrictions /  Corona update About the banner Credits Video previews Cheat sheet/passphrase answers Picture credits Accessibility Not every place can by easily reached by physically impaired agents (barrierefrei), but most of them. Not every place is open 24/7 - but when you to the banner at normal daytime you should get in reach of every portal. Known restrictons Corona update April 2020: As a  general rule we as banner creators recommend to stay at home in these special times.   While most portals are still reachable, some might be not due to legal restrictions. We cannot confirm from remote whether the places just stopped their touristic program or locked out the public. And we all know that most castles are built to do this in an excellent way.  But if you still want to do a tour, you might wa

Hello #gamescom2019 ! Yesterday the world’s largest event for computer and video games opened its gates to gamers in #Cologne, Germany. Agents HakuinHu, NaAntok and @Nelkon  welcomed this event by anchoring two #ingress fields in the South of Cologne. Actually there weren’t just two of them but 24 layers which yielded 300.000 green mind units. Because its main fields got rebuilt after a RES takedown the next morning it summed up to a half Million MU.

I did another castle tour in the Rhineland. This time I had the privilege to be accompanied by agent 54m . Shortly after sunrise we climbed on the mountain Drachenfels (dragon‘s rock) . It is a renowed romantic destination. Several legends surround the Drachenfels, most famously that Siegfried – the hero of the Nibelungenlied – killed the dragon Fafnir, who lived in a cave in the hill, then bathed in its blood to become invulnerable. Hence, the hill is named the "Dragon's Rock". This poem made the place more famous: The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine. Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strewed a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me! —  Lord Byron ,  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Afte

We all had a lot of hope that Ingress 2.0 will give us new servers and awesome new features for the "old" scanner. What we got is Ingress Prime and the (old) [redacted] scanner. While usually people love what they know and are critical about changes the nerdy Ingress player base is usually very open for improvements and developments. This is a turkish street food restaurant that I recently stumbles upon in my hometown Berlin-Spandau. I had to memefy it instantly on location while waiting for their delicious Prime Kebap spezial dish. But when Niantic finally made their new Prime Scanner in 2018 public, the reactions were very mixed. While it had a modern looking user interface, brought one finger map rotation and a cool way to recharge xm with power cubes, it was slower than the old client, crashed a lot and had major bugs that prevented proper gameplay (e.g. not detecting every linkable portal).