Recent Bugs In the last week or so, some bugs have appeared t | Ingress Updates [ENG]

Recent Bugs

In the last week or so, some bugs have appeared that may impact gameplay and which leave Agents wondering if there is a way to resolve them. We want to list three of them together with their bug reports and share methods to mitigate their effects.

Problem: Cannot link to portals even though all requirements are fulfilled

Potential cause: A ton of Portals were recently moved by a few centimeters. As links do not get destroyed by small portal moves anymore and stay at the old portals location, these links act as block links for both outgoing and incoming links. Within the scanner or intel, it is almost impossible to see that the portal got moved, which gives the impression that the links still terminate at the portal.

Mitigation: Destroy and recapturing the Portals will destroy the links that acted as blocking links, allowing you to throw links again.

Bug Report: After Niantic tagged the Bug Report as "Investigating" over the weekend, they have now tagged it as "Working on a fix"

https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21532/mass-changes-to-portal-coordinates-by-tiny-increments

Problem: New "Nearby" feature notifies of portals that were already captured

Potential cause: The markers for uniques are saved as coordinates on the server. Due to the mass movement of portals as explained above, it is possible that the scanner therefore believes that the moved portals are new, prompting the notification. If that is the case, if the portals are reset to their prior position, this bug should fix itself.

Mitigation: None, although you can turn off the "Nearby" feature if it annoys you in the settings.

Bug report: Niantic tagged the Bug report as "Investigating"

https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/21528/adventure-sync-nearby-notifies-portal-that-i-have-already-captured

Problem: Scanner prompts to choose a faction and a new Agent name

Mitigation: Simply select your own faction and enter your current name. The Scanner will error out with the message "Your Level is to high to change faction" and you'll be returned to normal gameplay.

Bug report: none

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