u/finian2

I'll go first:

I've pondered about the idea of a "yellow faction" that effectively turns portals into cooperative portals. It could either spawn at random portals like Machina, or require an agent to hit a friendly portal with a yellow virus.

Any portals linked to a yellow portal will also become yellow, and players on both sides could upgrade yellow resonators, but on the flip side the portal is vulnerable to both factions as well.

Green + Blue makes yellow after all.

The yellow faction could be controlled by an AI called Caleb, a corruption of "Collab(oration)"

I know that Machina has unintentionally formed a couple of fields in the past, has anyone managed to catch a screenshot of what a red field looks like in game?

I've noticed that sometimes mouse inputs aren't being registered while building. I've noticed it with cables and conveyor belts, where I will occasionally have to click twice or even three times to make a connection. Is anyone else having this issue?

I've noticed a bunch of recent changes regarding shields has made them incredibly weak and almost pointless. I understand that one problem this is trying to solve is preventing a single portal from being a powerhouse, but I don't believe reducing the effectiveness of shields is the right way to go.

Introducing: Offensive Portal to Portal Modifications.
The idea is relatively simple. Create portal modifications that "sabotage" enemy portals that are within range. Given range could be a fraction of the portal's linking range.
This could include amplifying XMP damage, reducing shield effectiveness, reducing recharge efficiency and (tentatively) automatically damaging enemy resonators over time/increase enemy resonator drain rate substantially.

Why this would be kinda sick:
It would encourage players to be more strategic about how they approach attacking an enemy field network. Instead of jumping right in and wasting a bunch of kit, it would be far more efficient to begin capturing and connecting portals that are nearby the enemy's "front line" to bolster the offensive.
It would reward and encourage effective fielding by providing incentive to capture and link all portals within an area, otherwise an enemy player could easily capture and deploy offensive mods in a far more effective position, deep within the field network.
It would add more diverse event gameplay in which players on the offensive are more specialized kit to use when trying to control an area. Currently if an event is one-sided, the game play of the "underdogs" effectively boils down to spamming XMPs and having no chance to build.

Of course, this would require a pretty substantial content update and I have no idea if any Niantic devs actually check this Reddit, but I figured I might as well get my ideas down.

Discussion and suggestions always welcome!

Does anyone have any examples of a cross Faction multi Layered Field, where it starts with a small blue triangle, a slightly larger green triangle gets added on top, then another blue one, rinse and repeat, until you have one large green/blue striped field?

Hi all, I'm curious about the above because there isn't much information online about the origins of the First Saturday event, with the Wiki page being a stub and the medal announcement on the fevgames website not really providing any info about *how* it became an official badge. I'm wondering if anyone on this Reddit has any sneaky insider info.

Did FevGames contact Niantic? Did Niantic contact FevGames? Could there be other community event created medals in the future?

Edit: So the answer is that Niantic started the event first and then passed it off to the community, but the original announcements and news articles from Niantic were on Google+ so they're now lost to time.

I'm wondering if there's any way to set up the Chrome extension so it auto-connects whenever I open a specific website, e.g Twitter, without having to click on Quick-Connect each time.