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2.8 KiB
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57 lines
2.8 KiB
PHP
<h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
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<h4 id="no-penalty">Will Google/Niantic penalise me for using IITC?</h4>
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There have been rumours that Niantic/Google have been asking people to stop using IITC, and penalising users
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with a loss of points for doing so. This, as far as we can tell, is a hoax. Consider the following:
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<li>Before penalising users, they would request that this site is taken down. This has not happened.</li>
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<li>Any such request would come via email, not via a Google+ message. Ingress is not closely tied into the Google
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account system unlike, for example, Gmail; an email, like they already use for portal submissions, is the only
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communication method available.</li>
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<li>The message I've seen talks about "points" - when they should be talking about "AP".</li>
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Some notes from a Hangout available <a href="https://plus.google.com/111333123856542807695/posts/QtiFdoRuh6w">here</a>
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with further details.
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<h4 id="broken">No portals are displayed on the map!</h4>
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Please update to the latest IITC to fix the map. If you use Chrome+Tampermonkey, or Firefox+Greasemonkey,
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just triggering a manual update should do this. Alternatively, re-download and install from the
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<a href="?page=desktop">download page</a>.
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<h4 id="bluemap">What happened to the nice blue map?</h4>
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Unfortunately this is no longer available, as IITC far exceeds the free quota offered by Cloudmade, the map tile provider.
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You can use the layer selection menu to choose "Default Ingress Map", but this doesn't work as smoothly as we'd like.
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Options to allow users to register their own free accounts for this are being considered - watch this space.
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<h4 id="cheating">Isn't using IITC cheating/an unfair advantage?</h4>
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IITC only uses data that is sent from the Ingress servers to the browser - it just displays it in an easy to use format.
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There were, and continue to be, other browser add-ons that display this data - just not widely available.
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Having a good quality, feature rich add-on, available to all - Enlightened and Resistance - ensures one side does not
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have an unfair advantage.
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<h4 id="export">Can you add an export feature?</h4>
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No. As it stands IITC is tolerated, but not officially accepted, by Niantic/Google. Adding in features that
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allow exporting of data outside the browser environment, or break additional Ingress terms of service
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is likely to trigger a takedown request from Google.
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<h4 id="otherapp">I used another <i>{ingress mod/IITC plugin}</i> and it's broken - can you fix it?</h4>
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Probably not, no. If the plugin is not listed on this site, it's not part of my IITC distribution.
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I do accept new plugins (see the Developer page for links to Github), but I do not accept any that
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allow export of Ingress data outside of the browser or make use of data not retrieved by the standard intel website.
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