Is it just me, or does it seem that since the drought started around portals, more xm has seemed to appear in other...
Is it just me, or does it seem that since the drought started around portals, more xm has seemed to appear in other particular places?
I don't know if more has appeared but maybe we're noticing it more?
ReplyDeleteNo it le juste you ^^ However glyphing give more pc and lawson.
ReplyDeleteThe state of xm is like hitting the back of a spoon with the faucet.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a reference, but it was mentioned elsewhere that volume of ground XM is also influenced by population density in the area -- similar to mind units.
ReplyDeleteWhat do we know about where wild/natural xm clusters? It has been observed that it tends to be found on trails and roads, but the lvl of clustering above does seem to suggest that there is something going on. Perhaps the emergent behaviour observed by Oliver Lynton-Wolfe?
ReplyDeleteIt's just you
ReplyDeleteNot sure. The ambient xm level seems to be slightly higher than it was, more like it was in Beta before the first power cubes.
ReplyDeleteI have been using all of the coping mechanisms I learned with previous droughts to deal with the current one.
I don't think the wild XM has changed. General consensus among long-time players I've talked to is that they probably seeded the ground XM with some kind of info about location-services pings from Android (since NIA was part of Google at the time), and then the table for that data may have been updated over time using Ingress Client pings. It definitely appears to be the case that places where there is lots of data traffic (like the stretch of US 101 that is the commute path for thousands of tech workers, who are on their laptops using the buses' built-in wifi) have a ton of ground XM.
ReplyDeleteIt seems about the same as always. There have been two major times the XM map was updated: once when it was released, with a lesser ambient amount, and another at least a year back where the ambient XM overall was increased.
ReplyDeleteYou're just noticing it more.
ReplyDeleteI noticed a large influx of ambient xm on the east coast after Seattle. I went from a couple small clusters (4-5 dots) around my apartment to a cloud of it over the whole scanner.
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