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Niantic is adding agent operations like Hex Quests as part of anomalies and events. To help agents keep track of their progress on the ops the Agent Ops System has been added to the scanner. We look at the Agent Ops System and how it was used during it's first global event. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

There have been a few changes to the scanner - Qcaps are gone, Auto Pickup is here and portal cooldown is more precise - well in one way.  We also look a little more in depth on something relatively new - Machina portals and cluster. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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! Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

NEW - Prime Tips is now available on iHeart Radio! Niantic has added a number of small features to the scanner that you may miss if you don't know they are there.  In this episode we look at uploading portal nominations, native refresh rates, turning off nearby portal indicators and layer inversion for portals in the scanner. In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

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. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

Once again we look at scoring and MU and come up empty. We DO prove one estimation method does NOT work and get into S2 cells, population density and the things we know are used to generate the MU score. We STILL can't figure out the secret formula.  Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

In this episode we look at Crossed linking caused by NIASection14 portal resets due to bad actors, spoofing and other things.  We also look at how you can report spoofers and maybe get a portal reset Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  In this episode we look at two new things for the Ingress Scanner - linking while under a field and dynamic links.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

This time we look at a new feature of the Ingress scanner - Community Scans Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

In this episode we look at a possible solution if you have issues with the Prime scanner like a login issue or problems with ways to pay for CMU in the store.  If you have a problem and getting the run around or nothing seems to work - give this a listen and give the process a try. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

In this episode we take a second look at portal ornaments.  We take a peek at some anomaly ornaments and some ornaments that are being used for phase 2 of the Kureze Effect Event. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message

In this episode we look at uniques and the differences between two medals that track uniques, the explorer medal and the pioneer medal. Show Links Visit the Prime Tips Webpage - https://anchor.fm/prime-tips Prime Tips YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsVideo Become a Prime Tips Supporter - http://bit.ly/PrimeTipsSupport Submit a Tip or Make a Request  - http://bit.ly/PrimeTip and we will make sure to make you famous if we use your tip. To subscribe to Prime Tips find us on Itunes or Spotify.  Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prime-tips/message