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janestarzAfter some light peer pressure I finally installed Ingress on my phone today. It's an augmented reality game that allows users to discover the world around them in a different way.
I've moved to Eindhoven a few months ago and I barely know my way around the city, so Ingress will be a great tool in this. Walking or cycling around the city, you can find portals which you can claim for your faction. The Resistance (blue) believes the portals are bad, and the Enlightened (green) believe they are good.
Claiming portals gives you XP and goods, allowing you to level up, to make easier or better claims on portals and more firepower.
So far, so good! I spent some time in Veldhoven today, which isn't so big on the Ingress yet, and claimed six portals close to one another, linking them together for extra points. My phone ran out of juice pretty quickly (it needs a GPS location to play the game) but I had great fun and moved around more than I have in recent weeks.
There are player initiatives to hook up with several players to effectively claim the other faction's portals and the portals themselves are usually historical sites, so you learn some history as well as navigation and something about your city/surroundings. I plan to claim nearby industry site De Hurk as my home turf, alongside another player of my faction, and branch out from there.
In short: go, Enlightened, go!
I've moved to Eindhoven a few months ago and I barely know my way around the city, so Ingress will be a great tool in this. Walking or cycling around the city, you can find portals which you can claim for your faction. The Resistance (blue) believes the portals are bad, and the Enlightened (green) believe they are good.
Claiming portals gives you XP and goods, allowing you to level up, to make easier or better claims on portals and more firepower.
So far, so good! I spent some time in Veldhoven today, which isn't so big on the Ingress yet, and claimed six portals close to one another, linking them together for extra points. My phone ran out of juice pretty quickly (it needs a GPS location to play the game) but I had great fun and moved around more than I have in recent weeks.
There are player initiatives to hook up with several players to effectively claim the other faction's portals and the portals themselves are usually historical sites, so you learn some history as well as navigation and something about your city/surroundings. I plan to claim nearby industry site De Hurk as my home turf, alongside another player of my faction, and branch out from there.
In short: go, Enlightened, go!
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