June 25--seven years
Jun. 25th, 2016 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyI went out early today to plan out an Ingress field. I wanted to practice on a small scale so I could start to figure out larger fields down the line. I spent a couple hours yesterday clearing potential blocks and stuff like that.
It was a straightforward field--right up the main street of our town. I have made layered fields before, but generally only three or four layers. This one would be 9 or 10 layers.
I got up early and walked up and down the street collecting portal keys. You need a key to link to the portal, and two keys if you want to make a field. It was a nice morning, and I took time to look around at the scenery.
I had a phone conference with my fellow doctoral students at 8 am, so got home in time for that. We are all progressing in our projects, and chatted about them and stuff unrelated to school. I am glad we have bonded as a group and can use each other for support.
Something I came across as I was walking through town.
In Ingress, there are these checkpoints throughout the day where scores are tallied, so if you are going to do something, you do it right before a checkpoint. The checkpoint I was aiming for was at 10 am. I ran into a couple of snags, but figured them out and was able to make my field before the checkpoint. Then I took it down and did it again.
It stayed up until just before the next checkpoint at 3 pm, when my nemeses from the south came up and took it down.
After all that I read a book for a while.
It was a straightforward field--right up the main street of our town. I have made layered fields before, but generally only three or four layers. This one would be 9 or 10 layers.
I got up early and walked up and down the street collecting portal keys. You need a key to link to the portal, and two keys if you want to make a field. It was a nice morning, and I took time to look around at the scenery.
I had a phone conference with my fellow doctoral students at 8 am, so got home in time for that. We are all progressing in our projects, and chatted about them and stuff unrelated to school. I am glad we have bonded as a group and can use each other for support.
Something I came across as I was walking through town.
In Ingress, there are these checkpoints throughout the day where scores are tallied, so if you are going to do something, you do it right before a checkpoint. The checkpoint I was aiming for was at 10 am. I ran into a couple of snags, but figured them out and was able to make my field before the checkpoint. Then I took it down and did it again.
It stayed up until just before the next checkpoint at 3 pm, when my nemeses from the south came up and took it down.
After all that I read a book for a while.
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Date: 2016-06-26 11:55 am (UTC)Interesting find, wonder where the horse head came from. it looks like it fell off of a fountain or and ornate cornice or something.
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Date: 2016-06-29 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-06-26 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-06-29 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-06-26 07:27 pm (UTC)So once you make a field outside/over a previous field, why not also throw a link to the apex of the previous field and get an extra two fields? You already have the fields layered.
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Date: 2016-06-29 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-06-29 05:13 am (UTC)You can either collect a buttload of keys to either base, or collect 3 keys to each of the spine portals and throw everything from the bases. If you want to layer-and-double-link, having a buttload of keys to each base is definitely easier, as you can backthrow base-base-previous-apex as you walk down the spine.