Prime Tips an Ingress Podcast

Happy New Year Agents!  We start 2023 with some new Ingress gear - head tracking, through the back ear buds.  We take a look at the Sony Link Buds and how they not only move your avatar as you turn your head, enhance the scanner sonic landscape and more importantly their "through the back" design allows you to hear the world around you as you get out there and move.

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It has been a few weeks and the Machina, Red Faction, is still around.  This episode we look at how to find them and what to do with them once you do find them.

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The ENL won Epiphany Dawn in LA and may have let something out of a Pandora's box!  The "Red Faction" or Machina are popping up all over the world and agents just are not sure what to do about them?  Kill them before they spread?  Embrace them as a new intelligence?  What are they - how do they work?  What can they do?  We take a look at what we know about the Unknown - the Machina portals.

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First Saturdays used to have agents meeting face to face for fast paced battles and other social activities.  Then Covid hit and First Saturdays briefly stopped and then morphed into Virtual First Saturdays.  We look at what First Saturdays were, what they are and what they might be again.  We also look at Second Sundays and how they have evolved in the short amount of time they have been around.

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A new type of kinetic capsule, the rare kinetic capsule recently appeared in the Prime Scanner.  In this episode we look at how it is different from the common kinetic capsule and how you can get the most out of your K Caps!

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Recent the Prime Scanner updates have enhanced the audio augmented reality through the use of spatial sound. If your wondering what that means then listen to this episode and see how it might make you a more effective agent.

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Load out cards have been around for a LONG time but they are not something agents see often.  In this episode we talk about what load out cards are - how you get them and how you use them.

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NEW - Prime Tips is now available on iHeart Radio!

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WELCOME TO SEASON 4! - Prime Tips starts it's 4th year of podcasts!

NIA has introduced an anti cheating measure called the Compartmental Access Level or CAL for short.  It should make life tougher for spoofers and if all goes well make YOUR life better!  We look at what CAL is, how it works and our guesses on what it means for the average Ingress agent.

In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links. 

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Listener AlexGT230 requested we do an episode on Ingress Scoring.  That should be easy we thought.  It is something that is pretty simple UNITIL you have to explain it to a new player.  Then you gotta explain this which brings up that and then it only works this way at this time and, oh by the way we have a whole different system of time we use for scoring did we mention that?  We take a trip down the rabbit hole of the Ingress scoring system.  This episode is great for the new player to figure out what all this stuff means, but also for the more seasoned agents who may not have ever really looked at the Ingress scoring system.

In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links. 

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