Excellent article on the origin and intent of the #lllllegion #barcode movement.
Originally shared by Pat “PatMan” Reynolds
Excellent article on the origin and intent of the #lllllegion #barcode movement. Check out the comment on the article for some different perspectives. I know many of the DFW barcodes, and every one that I know is a stand-up member of their team and the Ingress community - but I guess there will always be people that abuse an obfuscation system, no matter the intent behind it...
http://decodeingress.me/2014/06/02/stranger-editorial-barcodes/
Excellent article on the origin and intent of the #lllllegion #barcode movement. Check out the comment on the article for some different perspectives. I know many of the DFW barcodes, and every one that I know is a stand-up member of their team and the Ingress community - but I guess there will always be people that abuse an obfuscation system, no matter the intent behind it...
http://decodeingress.me/2014/06/02/stranger-editorial-barcodes/
#lllllegion
ReplyDelete50+ members across the states and growing
ReplyDeleteI'm just not sold that the bar codes are some terrible cancer. I actually think that if we knew less about individual agents' actions, the game would be more civil.
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ReplyDeleteWe have had our own barcode crew locally. Only one of them is still a barcode and a legit player. Some have changed back, some have quit, some have "disappeared". Once the idea was put forward by some locals in early 2013 and a few of them started switching it quickly became a platform for cheaters to use to hide their presence and multiple accounts. It was put forth innocently enough as a way to obfuscate and confuse the enemy but the warning was also immediately put forward that it would confuse the friendly as well and possibly cause those who play legitimately as a barcode to be confused with the cheaters that hide behind barcodes. That it did. Maybe with sufficient participation from legitimate players it would have produced the desired result with less collateral damage.
ReplyDeleteDavid Timothy we have the same issues here in the dfw area, confusion from friendly and enemy sides plus cheaters hiding behind the barcode. But on a side note, it has gone from team work with the barcodes to a level of this egomaniacs trying to convert everyone and to force their ideals on the community. It is no longer a team based idea but a bandwagon that everyone jumps on.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Hasley The exact same can be said of you. You are an egomaniac that tries to convert everyone to "Team Pin" and force your ideals on the community. I hit L8 tonight without a single word from you despite your impish claim to "Lead" my area. You not only didn't help me hit e8, which I did in 4 days, but you tried to keep me from doing so by attempting to band agents against me in a selfish rant and called me outlandish things in a group area hangout. You are the perfect example of a useless agent in my eyes. Amazingly, the barcodes I never even knew helped me in Keller more than you, the agent whose farm I just fielded tonight. By myself. Your pitiful excuse for leadership disgusts me and my feelings will never change. Teamwork isn't in your vocabulary, and I wish to not play alongside you again.
ReplyDelete-Bananorama, e8
EDIT: cirnobyl, e11
Marlon B Chantal Galloway opinions on what your own player just said about Barcodes?
ReplyDelete-MSUMike
I have said player blocked and do not see anything
ReplyDeleteMike B William puts the IIIII in team. He is the best barcode recruiter we have.
ReplyDeleteJake Gray we're happy to have you! Mike B Looks like my teammate,who is not a barcode but is an amazing player said some pretty awesome things! Look forward to playing along side him anytime.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Hasley Epic fail. Beg forgiveness and try again. IIIIIIIlegion FTW.
ReplyDeleteJake Gray 8 in 4 days? Damn! Amount of caffeine consumed?
ReplyDeleteNick Kaminski He got the platinum Caffinator badge.
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ReplyDeleteNick Kaminski Tony Mendolia I lived off of Full Throttle for a while and got pulled over by police more than once. :P
ReplyDeleteYay Jake, you just uped my respect for the green team by a considerable amount, settle down bananaboy, ain't gonna switch, green has never been my favorite color! But you definitely helped to elevate their standings in my book! Well said lil brother!
ReplyDeleteLilbunnyfufu R7
In my Experience Barcodes across MANY platforms of are used by people who wish to obscure their identity, which the article covers. Most times it is for reasons of less then legitimate play style.
ReplyDeleteBarcoding is a great way to cheat because it makes reporting the player/agent a LOT harder to do. This is a tactic as old as Multi player games it self. Though they can claim that they would run out cheaters the fact of the matter is ANYONE can become a barcode. As such it encourages cheating because if there are 50+ agents its really easy to make a barcode name and spoof fields because its requires someone to go out of their way to prove it wasnt the same account where a normal agent name like mine @Nydirech on 3 portals is easy to tell if its suspect. Further more the tactic has been used in many Multi player games because, no offence to devs, but they get tired of trying to dig through data looking for which barcode id belongs to whom and it facilitates the cheating.
That is WHY barcoders get such a bad rep. While the agents in the core sect of barcoders may be legit they are helping to facilitate those that may not be as morally sound as they.
I know of two Enl dfw players who were cheaters.
ReplyDeleteOne refused to join Barcode (before he was found to be a cheat), the other left the Barcodes and began cheating months after his departure. It should be noted that both players are persona non grata not only to me but also most of the team.
It really is a shared identity, and the standards for behavior are high.