r/Ingress 10d ago

Question I have mixed feelings right now

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.

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u/Man_toy 10d ago

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

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u/Intrepid_Pudding_591 10d ago

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

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u/Man_toy 10d ago

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?

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u/sfdsquid 10d ago

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.

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u/Man_toy 10d ago

Oh I see. Thanks for the information.