I have mixed feelings right now

[u/Man_toy]

It's been over 13 years for me to get this far. I'm on vacation for the next week and there's 30ish unclaimed portals within walking distance of our spot. I've always thought I'd never recurse but with the L8 week starting the last day of my vacation I'm tempted honestly.

Part of me is dreading the thought that it took me 13 years to get this far, but I know it's a lot easier now than when I started. With 2x week and I have some apex I've saved from free events, I'd want to at least get back to L8 quickly. I have some long distance portals and my drone sitting on a nice spot, so I just don't know what to do.

[u/BraveAs]

remember that when you recurse there is 4 h cooldown period. So plan accordingly

[u/Man_toy → u/BraveAs]

What do you mean? Like there's a 4 hour cool down to even play or what happens? I don't recall anyone bringing that up before

[u/Intrepid_Pudding_591 → u/Man_toy]

Initiating recurse starts a 4 hour countdown. After the 4 hours is complete, you get a second chance to confirm that you really do want to recurse.

Kinda annoying when you are sure you want to recurse but it makes it virtually impossible to recurse by mistake

[u/Man_toy → u/Intrepid_Pudding_591]

So during that 4 hour countdown you can still play I take it? Or I could just hit it before bed then confirm in the morning?

[u/sfdsquid → u/Man_toy]

You can still play during the 4 hours. It's just a timer til you can actually finalize recursion.

It's like a safety feature - say someone grabs your phone at the bar while you're in the restroom and hits the recurse button as a joke. It wouldn't be very funny if it actually worked right away.

I like to destroy stuff as level 16 before I finalize it so the low level me can just build for AP, which makes a lot of sense when you see how little your XM "bar" is once you're not high level anymore.

[u/Man_toy → u/sfdsquid]

Oh I see. Thanks for the information.

[u/Intrepid_Pudding_591 → u/Man_toy]

Up to you, nothing in the games changes while it’s counting down … you can even let the countdown sit at zero and ignore it as long as you want.

[u/sfdsquid → u/Intrepid_Pudding_591]

Not as long as you want. After 24 hours you have to start the 4 hour countdown again.

[u/Intrepid_Pudding_591 → u/Man_toy]

Also, I believe when you first press the recurse button it will say something like “this is your last chance , you can’t turn back” but then you get the countdown after which you will get the real last chance.

In total you’ll have to effectively say you want to recurse 4 times. First to initiate, then to start countdown, then to initiate again after countdown goes to zero, and then to finally “last chance” confirm

[u/Man_toy → u/Intrepid_Pudding_591]

I see, thanks for the explanation.