Oh, I didn’t know you could bulk drop stuff to them back then. Boise, ID (where I live) has a database of all the public art works they have commissioned. While before 2015 it was sparse it would have at least added a few hundred PoI.
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The secret is to read the criteria (and the criteria clarifications) and only submit eligible things in eligible locations. If you’re trying to force something through because it is where you want to have a pokestop, you probably won’t be successful. You have to go find things where they exist and submit them there. Many of us have driven hours away to find “blank” maps to submit stuff.
Yep, I’ve created a map where I’ll plan out submissions in the “blank” areas a few hours away. I’ll usually look at them on IITC to confirm they haven’t been submitted yet, but it’s not always the most accurate.
Do you understand the numbers on the Seer oxyninis medal?
Seer is 500 for platinum.
But, 5000 for onyx.
This is achieved with an application before August 2015.
And it is not an accomplishment by wayfinder review after OPR.
He achieved it within the first half of 2015.
Also, the review by Niantic staff at that time was much more rigorous than after OPR. (Though there was the occasional odd one)
If you have a history of owning a Seer medal, you should be able to do some of what I am talking about.
I’ve known about Seer since early 2016. Nominating had been halted mid 2015. I’ve met with and talked to many who have onyx. They could submit lists back then. Sometimes hundreds of Seer credits for one list. (Also they could submit individuals.) If you don’t believe me, ask someone who has platinum or onyx.
Interesting you say that.
I’ve been playing Ingress since December 2014, so I know what was going on with portal nominations back then, and I know that the nomination method changed (first it was emailed, then it was sent through the game app. Also, there was a different software for Android at the time that could be used for nominations. By the way, when I started, nominations were made from the game app), etc., I know from first-hand experience.
And like you, I have talked to people who have Seer platinum medals. (Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to talk to Agent Taisa.)
But I have heard from them that it wasn’t the easy situation you describe.
It would have been a bit better at the beginning of the closed beta, but I recall that when I started, in December 2014, the portal nominations from all over the world were already long stacked, and I was told that it would take 6 months to a year at that time to see the results of my nomination.
This was highly accurate information at the time, as the data was from agents who had already submitted their nominations and compared the months between nominations and results.
Also, Agent Taisa achieved Seer Onyx late at night on February 9, 2015, but the next day, Mr. Kawashima (now Niantic Vice CEO) sent a tweet saying that it was probably the first Seer Onyx.
By the way, if you are at the level of winning the Seer Onyx Medal, you are at the level of building one town in augmented reality.
Can you tell me the name of the agent who won the Seer Onyx Medal that you claim to have talked to, or the name of the town he built?
If you have talked to them, I would think you would at least remember the agent name or the name of the town where the portal he was nominating was located.
By the way, the agent I know, Taisa, is widely known as “the man who built the town of Kyoto”.
As of early 2015, it was said that 90% of the portals in Kyoto were created by him, and when Pokémon GO launched in July 2016, Kyoto had a very high density of PokeStops, which led to trainers saying “Kyoto has a lot of PokeStops because of Nintendo’s headquarters.
In fact, it was mostly to his credit.
The same is probably true for the Seer Onyx Medal winners you know.
Ingress allows you to check portals and agent profiles around the world via dynamic links, so I would like to see profiles and portals of other Seer Onyx Medal winners.
I also have 195 places, so I am a silver medal forever.
And thanks for presenting the list, although it is not a complete list.
I would like to see his profile etc. if there are many Onyx medal wayfinder because of this too. @MargariteDVille
Note that agent fumiso in 15th place is a friend of mine.
I really appreciate the discussion everyone! Some had said I might have the record for my local area at 3,084 today, but I’m surprised to hear I might be in the running worldwide
Perhaps as of 2024, it is no longer particularly difficult.
The criteria for approval in Wayfarer have expanded considerably since the Seer and OPR eras.
And since the OPR era, specific candidate examples have been provided.
Also, we can now nominate up to 2080 per year, so it is possible that we will eventually exceed that number.
As for Taisa, which I provided as a topic, it is a unique example of what has been accomplished during the Seer era.
But it is interesting in that regard because the topic was raised that there are many other Ingress agents who have earned the Seer Onyx.
Since we are here, I will show Taisa’s agent profile URL.
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https://intel.ingress.com/agent/Taisa
Im having trouble understanding this sentence. Am i reading it wrong or is the math not mathing?
That is weird math counting ones on a friends account though.
Accounts are linked to an individual, by no means anyone should use someone else’s account to do in-game interactions.
Sorry, The translation error was due to a fluctuation in the automatic translation.
one account can nominate up to 2,080 positions per year.
1 account, ingress40/2week + PGO40/2week
365 days/2week ≈ 26
26 x 80 = 2,080 nominations
You dont get 40 nominations every 2 weeks though. They replenish 1 per day. At most, you can nominate 405 in one year if you carry over 40 from the previous year (per game).
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I have a total of 2015 accepted wayspots in Wayfarer. That statistic is a bit faulty though as it also counts some old nominations accepted even if they were too close to appear in Ingress and thus never made it into wayspots.
My own calculations show 1981 accepted portals (scanner shows 1975, that’s also a bit bugged) and those are the numbers that interest me.
I’ve nominated all via Ingress. I have a total of 2458 nominations during my 2385 days since I nominated my first portal (wayspot).
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I see!
That was completely wrong in my thinking.
I had never nominated to Max, so I had mistakenly thought it would be back to 40 in two weeks.
Thanks for letting me know.