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My first thought: Could I put my phone in a radio-proof room, and externally synthesize the GPS signal to put my phone wherever I wanted, complete with robo-play as necessary? My second thought: If it's possible at all, I have to assume this is already being done.
A friend and I have really been enjoying this game. There is a good bit of strategy in active cities with how links are made and blocked for other teams. The community is certainly a huge portion, because you really do have to coordinate with people around the city. Many portals are too strong to take out alone, so it is great to bring a buddy or group along. I have discovered so many cool things around the city that…
At the city center, on the other hand there are at least 5 portals based on pictures of the cathedral from different perspectives...
A friend and I have really been enjoying this game. There is a good bit of strategy in active cities with how links are made and blocked for other teams. The community is certainly a huge portion, because you really do have to coordinate with people around the city. Many portals are too strong to take out alone, so it is great to bring a buddy or group along. I have discovered so many cool things around the city that…
Conversely, I have been pretty disappointed by portal locations. Near me, there is one sports store, one tyre store, one butt-ugly highrise apartment bulding, a view from the top of that highrise, and a featureless sunset. At the city center, on the other hand there are at least 5 portals based on pictures of the cathedral from different perspectives...
The glasses will be running Android according to the Wikipedia page, and I'm pretty sure they'd work to make the game run will on them.
Sometimes the future is so close to being here! :)
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Conversely, I have been pretty disappointed by portal locations. Near me, there is one sports store, one tyre store, one butt-ugly highrise apartment bulding, a view from the top of that highrise, and a featureless sunset. At the city center, on the other hand there are at least 5 portals based on pictures of the cathedral from different perspectives...
Is that because of the city you live in? I'm not familiar with Ingress, but can't players also create portals?
I like the idea of games that involve getting out of the house and meeting new people. That said, how do the makers of games like this prevent location spoofing?
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Yes, there's already some people cheating. I'm not sure if it's in this specific way but there's reports out there, for example I saw this one this morning: https://plus.google.com/106910446343644147596/posts/JYaepWnd... As far as I can see, the only real way to prevent this kind of thing would be to have checks in the backend. E.g. if you've "travelled" hundreds of kilometers in a couple of minutes, that's a pretty…
I think it'd be reasonable -- for more than just cheating reasons -- to make your scanner move at, say, a maximum of 25mph. So if your "actual" location is, say, 50 miles from your last location, but it's only been an hour, your scanner is disabled for an hour. That would probably disable most "war-driving" strategies, while making most (but not all) legitimate strategies still available. And, I think that war-driver…
+1 on the community aspects. There's a Resistance cell in South Bay (of San Francisco Bay Area) that's pretty highly organized and set us up meetups to go item and experience farming, posts "target" lists (high-value portals to be taken down) and the like. There are meetups for all kinds of things of course---Hacker News, Less Wrong, Reddit, whatnot, so this is just one more, but it's nice getting together with a bun…