History YMMV / Ingress

** To a lesser extent, thick clusters of abandoned portals claimed by the Machina. Mainly because Machina portals climb to Level 8 ''very'' quickly, are as hardy as that sounds, and seem especially zap-happy when attacked, so setting off even a single Diffuser can get your XMP bar cooked to nothing. Be ready to chew through your Power Cubes like popcorn. And you ''have'' to deal with them if you want a farm worth squat, because Machina portals yield only Level 1 garbage when hacked. At least you'll get more Level 8 items than you'll know what to do with once you've busted them up.

** To a lesser extent, thick clusters of abandoned portals claimed by the Machina. Mainly because Machina portals climb to Level 8 ''very'' quickly, are as hardy as that sounds, and seem especially zap-happy when attacked, so setting off even a single Diffuser can get your XMP bar cooked to nothing. Be ready to chew through your Power Cubes like popcorn. At least you'll get more Level 8 items than you'll know what to do with afterwards, even if picking them up ''will'' be tedious.

* FanNickname
** Players from the in-game factions have nicknames for their opposing numbers: Resistance players refer to the Enlightened as 'Toads', 'Frogs', or 'Kermits', while Enlightened players refer to the Resistance as 'Smurfs'.
** An incident where a significant quantity of item-generating passcodes was discovered after the Niantic Labs team partnered with [=ZipCar=] was referred to as "Zipcarmageddon".
** Resonators placed very close to the portal are known as "Rings of Shame" since they can be destroyed more efficiently than if the resonators were spread out. They are also called "Pineapples" or "Campfires".
** Portals reachable from a player's home are called "couch portals" or just "couch"/"sofa" for short; portals reachable from the workplace are called "desk portals", or "desks".
** BAF - An enormous field made of links kilometers long, worth massive amounts of Mind Units and requiring lots of transport to set up. Known as "Big Augmented Field", but colloquially called "Big-Ass Field".

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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hoo boy... When Niantic released Ingress Prime, aka Ingress 2.0, it drew the public ire of a lot of Agents from both factions for numerous reasons, mainly it's buggy nature, the changed UI, and the massive battery drain it had on a lot of devices. While Niantic's release of Scanner [REDACTED] (Ingress 1.xxx) about a week later helped to mollify a good number of players, there are still a few who are quite sore about it.

* MostAnnoyingSound:
** "It's been [>12] hours since your last login. ''I was getting worried about you.''" Considering that it is perfectly normal for regular players to spend more than 12 hours away from the game (e.g. due to sleeping and responsibilities such as school or work), especially if they do not live within rock-throwing distance of a portal, this form of GuiltBasedGaming gets old fast.
** Attacks on portals you have resonators on will trigger notifications accompanied by a sound by default. It gets very annoying if you have several portals under attack at the same time. Fortunately, the notification sound, as well as the notification itself, can be turned off, although if you are trying to defend one of your portals you could miss out on defending them.

* UnexpectedCharacter: WebVideo/KizunaAI would not be the first person you would expect to find in an anime based on a mobile game.

* UnexpectedCharater: WebVideo/KizunaAI would not be the first person you would expect to find in an anime based on a mobile game.

* UnexpectedCharater: WebVideo/KizunaAI would not be the first person you would expect to find in an anime based on a mobile game.

** Some ''Ingress'' fans are not terribly fond of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' [[HypeBacklash due to having a much bigger and louder fanbase]]; their large numbers at ''Ingress'' hotspots (due to ''Go'' piggybacking on a lot of ''Ingress'' infrastructure) does not help. This has led to concerns that various properties will ban the use of all location-based games, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings even for the]] SilentMajority. The rivalry is mostly one-way, though. Most ''Go'' players [[UnknownRival don't even know about]][[UnknownRival ''Ingress'']].

** Some ''Ingress'' fans are not terribly fond of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' [[HypeBacklash due to having a much bigger and louder fanbase]]; their large numbers at ''Ingress'' hotspots (due to ''Go'' piggybacking on a lot of ''Ingress'' infrastructure) does not help. This has led to concerns that various properties will ban the use of all location-based games, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings even for the]] SilentMajority. The rivalry is mostly one-way, though. [[UnknownRival Most ''Go'' players don't even know about ''Ingress'']].

** Some ''Ingress'' fans are not terribly fond of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' [[HypeBacklash due to having a much bigger and louder fanbase]]; their large numbers at ''Ingress'' hotspots (due to ''Go'' piggybacking on a lot of ''Ingress'' infrastructure) does not help. This has led to concerns that various properties will ban the use of all location-based games, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings even for the]] SilentMajority. The rivalry is mostly one-way, though. Only a few ''Go'' players cannot stand the ExcusePlot of ''Ingress''.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hoo boy... When Niantic released Ingress Prime, aka Ingress 2.0, it drew the public ire of a lot of Agents from both factions for numerous reasons, mainly it's buggy nature, the changed UI, and the massive battery drain it had on a lot of devices. While Niantic's release of Scanner [REDACTED] (Ingress 1.xxx) about a week helped to mollify a good number of players, there are still a few who are quite sore about it.