r/Ingress

How can you not anticipate the end of the septicycle and surge in activity when you plan an event around battle beacons.

I had 140+ keys and scheduled bb’s with some of my teammates and I could not recharge. Couldn’t even open the game.

When the game finally loaded I couldn’t recharge, couldn’t work with capsules. How does this happen? It’s unbelievable. So much time wasted doing scans, exchanging keys with other players. I just cancelled my core; you can keep your badges. I’m so over it.

Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA (Historic Boulder Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall)

Date: 11 October 2026 (Second Sunday)

Accomplishments: Multiple agents obtaining Gold Cygnus Global Battle badge and progress on their Cygnus Anomaly Season badge.

We had a turnout rivaling that of First Saturday at our hastily organized friendly xfac Battle Beacon gathering at the Pearl Street Mall in sunny Boulder Colorado. With close to 100 battle beacons deployed as we walked the pedestrian mall and nearby creek path, we had a blast making quick work getting progress and our badges.

The only near disaster was when we were admiring a beautiful repurposed cottonwood stump that is a giant little free library and Ingress portal while having a group discussion about needing more bursters to “blow things up”… while the homeowner was out front!!! I don’t think it was entirely clear to them that we were talking about out our game, but thankfully we must not have looked threatening, or all of us staring at our phones was a giveaway that we were just a bunch of gaming nerds!

Thanks to all who joined and put up with yet another “oops, another event we weren’t aware of” festival taking place today.

Hope other communities can organize to get this badge. As others have said, it would have been really helpful if Niantic had made some indicator showing that you had interacted with a battle beacon, but if you simply overwhelm with number of deployed beacons and interactions you make, it works out in the end assuming agreed upon cooperation. Best of luck all who are trying.

And with that, I think ill take a break from scanning for a bit aha. Probably not going to go for more tbh. This pushed me to the Bronze season medal, naturally.

Im going back to bed. Have a good Thanksgiving weekend, Canadian Agents!

I made about 200 fields today and somehow made this triangle that isnt a field.

15 Res 16 Enl and a ton of battle beacons.

Thanks to everyone who handled the minor hiccups with today’s First Saturday in Littleton…. Think of it as a hangover from a successful Denver anomaly last month!

Despite checking the event schedule we arrived to find 1/4 of the venue closing - including access to our Base Portal and the majority of our passcode portals! Thankfully with some generous reaching beyond the barrier, everyone managed to hack the base portal. A few intrepid (better dressed so not to disturb the arriving wedding guests?) agents managed to hack the portals needed before getting shoed back beyond the barriers and First Saturday continued.

Battle beacons aplenty were deployed through the remainder of the gardens. I think everyone managed at least the first level of the event badge, many reached the second tier.

We went with the silly pic proving that we followed the rules. More pics showing how beautiful the Hudson Gardens were on this exceptionally warm October day are in the comments.

It can be moved up and down the screen but has no impact.

We managed to not get rained on.

Agents set out from Little Beer Quarter for October's Wellington First Saturday, following a mission through the laneways of central Te Aro. The route wound from Edward Street through Dixon, Eva and Egmont Streets, across Courtenay Place and into Holland Street, with plenty of Cygnus beacons providing an extra distraction along the way. Some agents also took advantage of the route to collect stamps for Wellington's Craft Beer Capital Trail.

After a cold and windy start, conditions improved towards the end of the afternoon before agents regrouped at Mean Doses. Two levels were gained, one by a Resistance agent and one by an Enlightened agent.

Great work on the battle beacons!