This was one awesome op!
This was one awesome op!
Originally shared by Enlightened India
#Enlightened #ingress #ENLIND #OPBuddha #Buddha #worldrecord #HeExtends
Niantic Project NIA Ops Ingress Brian Rose Pooja Srinivas Brandon Badger Joe Philley Linda Besh November Lima Matilde Tusberti Anne Beuttenmüller
Situation Report – Operation Buddha
( #SitRep – #OPBuddha )
0845 hrs – 0945 hrs, 28th Feb’ 2015
This Op is dedicated to all the awesomeness we witnessed in the world of ingress.
India has always played a crucial role, supporting global MU score, may it from either faction. Our worthy opponents Resistance have awed us many times with their awesome coordination on field, during anomaly and during artifacts. We were inspired by their team spirit, mixed it with our strategization skills and set ourselves to achieve a feat, previously unthinkable of.
As a TL; DR, here are the quick stats:
Total Mind Units Captured: 17.5 BMU (14BMU within Check Point)
Total Number of Layers (established): 91 (83 across Check Point)
Total Number of Links (as per plan): 207
Total Execution Time: 50min (40min within Check Point)
Total Portal Count: 105
Preparation Time: 7 months
Agents Involved: 90
Cities Involved: 14
Anchor Cities: 7
VRLA Used: 0
It doesn’t matter which color you wear, if you’ve been around in the world of Ingress, these numbers are bound to strike you with shock and awe. For all the right reasons - it was no small a deal.
The single most impressive mind unit operation till 27th February, 2015 was OP BudDhi: http://goo.gl/337w4z , with it’s 5.3BMU (5.9BMU globally). Closely followed by the recent worldwide resistance op, Unight16 http://goo.gl/8WrUS2 - which managed to capture a staggering 4.7BMU globally, along with their other achivements to mobilize agents.
These numbers used to be held high with much respect and inspiration for a long time now. But, Enlightened India had been planning to set the bar a bit higher. Almost 3x as much as its own past glory. A goal, that’s not only mind-numbingly complex & spine-breakingly hectic - for most, it’s on the line of a moonshot or lunacy.
The Conception & Planning:
Back in early September, some inspired agents set themselves to break the previous world record of Operation BudDhi by capturing even more Mind Units, calling it the “Bigger Op”. The draft plan was to include Delhi, Bangalore & then newly enlightened city Kolkata as the main anchors.
With time, dedication, availability of keys, multiple iterations by incredible planners with experience from Op Buddhi - that plan eventually became Operation Buddha.
Agent Sheldor & Djasdak went down their memory lane - with an incredible story to tell, with far more details. You’re encouraged to find their Memoire CoSitReps from the links below.
OP Execution:
Early in the Morning, agents from all cities prepare up to the tasks they were delegated to. Forming teams, learning the execution strategies, or to be on time for the cross-link takedowns.
The OP had a total of 14 phases, each with substantial amount of details to follow, in very specific order, within a very short amount of time.
By 7:30am, all local teams are briefed, tasks & keys delegated & execution phases explained.
By 8:00am, agents are all in position, cross-link take down team starts their job after getting the go from the Op Control team. Minor hiccups there, but were managed skillfully. Nothing unplanned for.
At 8:50am, Delhi team is given the GO to start linking. Delhi, Kolkata, Rourkela & Hyderabad links start coming in. Minutes after, the Hyderabad team starts layering on top of the base links.
From 9:00-9:20am, control moved to Bangalore. Starting with Bagepalli (~100km North of Bangalore) and then to Whitefield (North-East end of Bangalore). The Bagepalli team faced mild network issues, taking rather longer for the fields to go up. Quickly after, with an astounding average of 5 links per minute (in proper order, synced and ack’d between teams and the control), Whitefield teams start linking. Everything went smoother than imagined, with a little Just-In-Time change in link order.
Meanwhile, some cross-links start appearing in Tirupati. XLink Control Master takes over and local resident agent takes down those xlinks in a very tight ETA. This is all while the tens of links going out, and is being managed in parallel.
Around 9:25am, Kolkata team starts linking to Coimbatore - with longest of links and making the highest MU layers. But were only able to do half the job within time - East Kolkata portals yet to be linked, with agents waiting for their turns.
9:30am, Checkpoint is Reached!
But without any hitch, agents complete their respective linking orders & fields. MU gathered contributes to the OP, though not to the checkpoint - but that’s okay!
Most agents weren’t aware of the full picture of the OP. Especially, because it was still under scrutiny even the night before. Which helped a huge deal. Because once agents saw the full picture of the complexity involved and started realizing how big an OP it was - it’s simply appeared scary. The appreciation & respect for the Planning & Control teams’ dedication instantly became paramount.
Oh... that, and the laggy scanner!
Wrapping Up:
As you must have imagined, 7 months of planning, preparation & execution is not a small tale to tell. Not that all the parts are equally interesting to everyone. Hence, we’ve planned to dive into the details with the help of CoSitReps. Those Companion Situation Reports will go deeper into the specifics that they will discuss & are a massive gold mine of information. This one, however, is the bootstrapping page - to be shared, to be bookmarked, to get back to and to be inspired.
Special mention of Siddharth, Rourkela, JSR, Kolkata key transfers to all cities was handled by him, also he was a key coordinator for all the harvesting and key transfers, a planner and most importantly our moral booster.
Post Script:
There has been concerns regarding this OP may have been the effect of the new Illuminator badges. It is simply not the case. The OP has been in the pipeline for a long time now (i.e. wasn’t planned/prepped with Illuminator badges in mind). Secondly, most of the participating agents had their Onyx Illuminator already; the ones who got Onyx while in the OP, are marked with a * in the agent listing. The average MU collected per agent, for the participating agents, were more than 100 Million MU, with agents 1.5+ Billion MU captured topping the chart (@cyanokeet).
CoSitRep Links:
- Agent Memories - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/4PQYH1CyGVj
- Regional Reports
Delhi - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/dLGyFtg6k9X
Bangalore - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/MVjDQhMZg7F
Kolkata - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/3oipYc2cdsx
Hyderabad - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/Nq3vkq1Un83
Agents & Roles:
Master mind: Sachin Shenoy, Bangalore -@sheldor
Op Controller: Dhandeep Lodaya, Bangalore -@djasdak
Key Coordinator + Planner: Siddhartha Mittra - Illuminatus2
Xlink Control Master: Rajesh Manjunath, Bangalore -@darks3id
Xlink Control Support: Vinodh Selvaraju, Tirupathi -@SudoAgent
Xlink Control Support: Ashwin Samuel, Tirupathi -@killcreek
Xlink Control Support: Suresh Krishna, Tirupathi -@TheDestined
Key Harvesting:
Manjunath Bagepalli MANDAR1N
Aishwarya Bangalore ashae9
Jubin Bangalore BATMANslayer
Naveen Bangalore Alzh
Sachin Shenoy Bangalore sheldor
Karthick Coimbatore Gr33nvip3r
Shiras Babu Coimbatore CODR3D
Sivanesh Coimbatore AUT0B0T
Afsal Coimbatore Afsalbase
Rohith Hyderabad Hyddude
Divyaansha Jamshedpur deathon8
Abhijeet Ashwani Kolkata Raywyrm
Sidd Kolkata Illuminatus2
Deb Kolkata DebS
Sumit Kolkata Dey21
Swapnil Sanghvi Pune rhaegor
Anuj Rourkela AnujAg
Key Transporting:
Aishwarya Bangalore Ashae9
Akshay Bangalore amisra
Aridaman Bangalore velabugah
Ashutosh Bangalore ChanandlerBing
Karan Mumbai SmurfBusters
Deb Bangalore DebS
Varun Bangalore d00mslayer
Shiras Coimbatore CODR3D
Sivanesh Coimbatore AUT0B0T
Moumita Kolkata TheSigyn
Shankar Kolkata pewpewpow
Anuj Rourkela AnujAg
Nikhil Rourkela ingr33n
Cross-link Clearing:
Jayanth Bangalore 42SilentSouls
Mayur Bangalore fuzion
varun Bangalore d00mslayer
vinay Bangalore BigBOSS
Srujan Bhimavaram Monsape
Gopinath Chickbalapur gopir1594
Suresh Chirala TheDestined
Shiras Coimbatore CODR3D
Anubhav Delhi GreenPresident
Divyanshu Dharwad TheLastApache
Karthik Erode Gr33nVip3r
Ankit Itarsi TheDrunkenLord
Brijesh Wardha brij
Vijay Itarsi NeoMaster
Ataullah Rajahmundry ataullah
Govind Rajahmundry Uploadingvirus
Rohith Rajahmundry HydDude
Sharad Tirupathi urBadKarma
Aravind Tirupathi arurockzsz
Ganesh Trichy Hu1kRage
Balakrishnan Vijaywada BalgusMax
Karunakar Vijaywada Psychline
Makrand Wardha oOoMaCoOo
Suraj Bhopal Achilees001
Suman Kolkata Ravan11
Arjun Jamshedpur tomcat10
Control Field Layering:
Abhik Bangalore saha80*
Abhinav Bangalore linkedIN*
Adhithya Bangalore XADHIX
Aishwarya Bangalore Ashae9
Akhil Bangalore ripthejacker
Akshay Bangalore Ag3ntO07
Anshul Bangalore Hokanaka
ashik Bangalore atombomb
Ganesh Bangalore Imperator
Gopinath R Bangalore gopir1594
Jasmin Bangalore supjgeorge
Jayshree Bangalore cyanokeet
Jubin Bangalore BATMANslayer
Keerthan Bangalore Tsunami7*
Keshav Bangalore lifeofpai
Manjunath Bangalore MANDAR1N
Moumita Bangalore TheSigyn
Naveen Bangalore Alzh*
Omkar Bangalore Lead Toxin*
Prajwal Bangalore rpxtreme
Sam Bangalore MugavarS
Sharan Bangalore Vintageprotocol
Shivani Bangalore AshenLady
Deb Bangalore DebS
Tejus Bangalore TJKV*
Vaibhav Bangalore vaiyach
Vinay Bangalore BIGBOSS1
Abhinandan Delhi nandx64*
Ajmal Delhi AjmalAkhtar*
Akshat Delhi N3CROMANC3R*
Aravind Delhi ARKode*
Nikhil Delhi Diaeresis
Prashant Delhi PsychicGeneral*
Shashi Delhi 00sac00*
Shubhankar Delhi Psykidelix
Sumit Dey Delhi Dey21
Vatsal Delhi BoyWithNoName
Vikram Delhi GeneralVik*
Vivek Delhi WanderingLord
Abhishek Hyderabad livingarmor*
Nikhil Hyderabad ingr33n
Salman Hyderabad SammySheraz
Suresh Hyderabad JVS85*
Tanishq Hyderabad d3mios
Ziaullah Hyderabad Dragon123
Arjun Jamshedpur tomcat10
Abhijeet Kolkata Raywyrm
Debabrata Kolkata y2k007
Pranav Kolkata Veektor28
Priyankar Kolkata anku90
Rashi Kolkata Crox21
Saptarshi Kolkata VajRahaTha
Shankar Kolkata pewpewpow*
Sidd Kolkata Illuminatus2
Subhadip Kolkata Firels
Swarnava Kolkata Swarnava
Fun Trivia:
- Once cities were finalised, there were 17 version of layering plans, the maximum being 112 layers and minimum being 89.
- Rourkela and Bangalore were the common anchor cities in both Op BudDhi and Op Buddha.
- The Harvesting of Rourkela keys was done by an L2 agent Anuj & happens to be the first set of keys to be farmed for the OP.
- The Op was supposed to happen long time back, but then artifact hit Delhi and agent burnout derailed it.
- Only one layer of the full set between, Coimbatore, Kolkata & Delhi, was done before checkpoint. We missed 2.5B MU before checkpoint due to that.
- Indigenously developed tools were used to describe, validate and confirm layering plans.
- Cross-link team accommodated many last day changes to help all the crosslinks to go down in one shot!
Originally shared by Enlightened India
#Enlightened #ingress #ENLIND #OPBuddha #Buddha #worldrecord #HeExtends
Niantic Project NIA Ops Ingress Brian Rose Pooja Srinivas Brandon Badger Joe Philley Linda Besh November Lima Matilde Tusberti Anne Beuttenmüller
Situation Report – Operation Buddha
( #SitRep – #OPBuddha )
0845 hrs – 0945 hrs, 28th Feb’ 2015
This Op is dedicated to all the awesomeness we witnessed in the world of ingress.
India has always played a crucial role, supporting global MU score, may it from either faction. Our worthy opponents Resistance have awed us many times with their awesome coordination on field, during anomaly and during artifacts. We were inspired by their team spirit, mixed it with our strategization skills and set ourselves to achieve a feat, previously unthinkable of.
As a TL; DR, here are the quick stats:
Total Mind Units Captured: 17.5 BMU (14BMU within Check Point)
Total Number of Layers (established): 91 (83 across Check Point)
Total Number of Links (as per plan): 207
Total Execution Time: 50min (40min within Check Point)
Total Portal Count: 105
Preparation Time: 7 months
Agents Involved: 90
Cities Involved: 14
Anchor Cities: 7
VRLA Used: 0
It doesn’t matter which color you wear, if you’ve been around in the world of Ingress, these numbers are bound to strike you with shock and awe. For all the right reasons - it was no small a deal.
The single most impressive mind unit operation till 27th February, 2015 was OP BudDhi: http://goo.gl/337w4z , with it’s 5.3BMU (5.9BMU globally). Closely followed by the recent worldwide resistance op, Unight16 http://goo.gl/8WrUS2 - which managed to capture a staggering 4.7BMU globally, along with their other achivements to mobilize agents.
These numbers used to be held high with much respect and inspiration for a long time now. But, Enlightened India had been planning to set the bar a bit higher. Almost 3x as much as its own past glory. A goal, that’s not only mind-numbingly complex & spine-breakingly hectic - for most, it’s on the line of a moonshot or lunacy.
The Conception & Planning:
Back in early September, some inspired agents set themselves to break the previous world record of Operation BudDhi by capturing even more Mind Units, calling it the “Bigger Op”. The draft plan was to include Delhi, Bangalore & then newly enlightened city Kolkata as the main anchors.
With time, dedication, availability of keys, multiple iterations by incredible planners with experience from Op Buddhi - that plan eventually became Operation Buddha.
Agent Sheldor & Djasdak went down their memory lane - with an incredible story to tell, with far more details. You’re encouraged to find their Memoire CoSitReps from the links below.
OP Execution:
Early in the Morning, agents from all cities prepare up to the tasks they were delegated to. Forming teams, learning the execution strategies, or to be on time for the cross-link takedowns.
The OP had a total of 14 phases, each with substantial amount of details to follow, in very specific order, within a very short amount of time.
By 7:30am, all local teams are briefed, tasks & keys delegated & execution phases explained.
By 8:00am, agents are all in position, cross-link take down team starts their job after getting the go from the Op Control team. Minor hiccups there, but were managed skillfully. Nothing unplanned for.
At 8:50am, Delhi team is given the GO to start linking. Delhi, Kolkata, Rourkela & Hyderabad links start coming in. Minutes after, the Hyderabad team starts layering on top of the base links.
From 9:00-9:20am, control moved to Bangalore. Starting with Bagepalli (~100km North of Bangalore) and then to Whitefield (North-East end of Bangalore). The Bagepalli team faced mild network issues, taking rather longer for the fields to go up. Quickly after, with an astounding average of 5 links per minute (in proper order, synced and ack’d between teams and the control), Whitefield teams start linking. Everything went smoother than imagined, with a little Just-In-Time change in link order.
Meanwhile, some cross-links start appearing in Tirupati. XLink Control Master takes over and local resident agent takes down those xlinks in a very tight ETA. This is all while the tens of links going out, and is being managed in parallel.
Around 9:25am, Kolkata team starts linking to Coimbatore - with longest of links and making the highest MU layers. But were only able to do half the job within time - East Kolkata portals yet to be linked, with agents waiting for their turns.
9:30am, Checkpoint is Reached!
But without any hitch, agents complete their respective linking orders & fields. MU gathered contributes to the OP, though not to the checkpoint - but that’s okay!
Most agents weren’t aware of the full picture of the OP. Especially, because it was still under scrutiny even the night before. Which helped a huge deal. Because once agents saw the full picture of the complexity involved and started realizing how big an OP it was - it’s simply appeared scary. The appreciation & respect for the Planning & Control teams’ dedication instantly became paramount.
Oh... that, and the laggy scanner!
Wrapping Up:
As you must have imagined, 7 months of planning, preparation & execution is not a small tale to tell. Not that all the parts are equally interesting to everyone. Hence, we’ve planned to dive into the details with the help of CoSitReps. Those Companion Situation Reports will go deeper into the specifics that they will discuss & are a massive gold mine of information. This one, however, is the bootstrapping page - to be shared, to be bookmarked, to get back to and to be inspired.
Special mention of Siddharth, Rourkela, JSR, Kolkata key transfers to all cities was handled by him, also he was a key coordinator for all the harvesting and key transfers, a planner and most importantly our moral booster.
Post Script:
There has been concerns regarding this OP may have been the effect of the new Illuminator badges. It is simply not the case. The OP has been in the pipeline for a long time now (i.e. wasn’t planned/prepped with Illuminator badges in mind). Secondly, most of the participating agents had their Onyx Illuminator already; the ones who got Onyx while in the OP, are marked with a * in the agent listing. The average MU collected per agent, for the participating agents, were more than 100 Million MU, with agents 1.5+ Billion MU captured topping the chart (@cyanokeet).
CoSitRep Links:
- Agent Memories - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/4PQYH1CyGVj
- Regional Reports
Delhi - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/dLGyFtg6k9X
Bangalore - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/MVjDQhMZg7F
Kolkata - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/3oipYc2cdsx
Hyderabad - https://plus.google.com/106136682325626142777/posts/Nq3vkq1Un83
Agents & Roles:
Master mind: Sachin Shenoy, Bangalore -@sheldor
Op Controller: Dhandeep Lodaya, Bangalore -@djasdak
Key Coordinator + Planner: Siddhartha Mittra - Illuminatus2
Xlink Control Master: Rajesh Manjunath, Bangalore -@darks3id
Xlink Control Support: Vinodh Selvaraju, Tirupathi -@SudoAgent
Xlink Control Support: Ashwin Samuel, Tirupathi -@killcreek
Xlink Control Support: Suresh Krishna, Tirupathi -@TheDestined
Key Harvesting:
Manjunath Bagepalli MANDAR1N
Aishwarya Bangalore ashae9
Jubin Bangalore BATMANslayer
Naveen Bangalore Alzh
Sachin Shenoy Bangalore sheldor
Karthick Coimbatore Gr33nvip3r
Shiras Babu Coimbatore CODR3D
Sivanesh Coimbatore AUT0B0T
Afsal Coimbatore Afsalbase
Rohith Hyderabad Hyddude
Divyaansha Jamshedpur deathon8
Abhijeet Ashwani Kolkata Raywyrm
Sidd Kolkata Illuminatus2
Deb Kolkata DebS
Sumit Kolkata Dey21
Swapnil Sanghvi Pune rhaegor
Anuj Rourkela AnujAg
Key Transporting:
Aishwarya Bangalore Ashae9
Akshay Bangalore amisra
Aridaman Bangalore velabugah
Ashutosh Bangalore ChanandlerBing
Karan Mumbai SmurfBusters
Deb Bangalore DebS
Varun Bangalore d00mslayer
Shiras Coimbatore CODR3D
Sivanesh Coimbatore AUT0B0T
Moumita Kolkata TheSigyn
Shankar Kolkata pewpewpow
Anuj Rourkela AnujAg
Nikhil Rourkela ingr33n
Cross-link Clearing:
Jayanth Bangalore 42SilentSouls
Mayur Bangalore fuzion
varun Bangalore d00mslayer
vinay Bangalore BigBOSS
Srujan Bhimavaram Monsape
Gopinath Chickbalapur gopir1594
Suresh Chirala TheDestined
Shiras Coimbatore CODR3D
Anubhav Delhi GreenPresident
Divyanshu Dharwad TheLastApache
Karthik Erode Gr33nVip3r
Ankit Itarsi TheDrunkenLord
Brijesh Wardha brij
Vijay Itarsi NeoMaster
Ataullah Rajahmundry ataullah
Govind Rajahmundry Uploadingvirus
Rohith Rajahmundry HydDude
Sharad Tirupathi urBadKarma
Aravind Tirupathi arurockzsz
Ganesh Trichy Hu1kRage
Balakrishnan Vijaywada BalgusMax
Karunakar Vijaywada Psychline
Makrand Wardha oOoMaCoOo
Suraj Bhopal Achilees001
Suman Kolkata Ravan11
Arjun Jamshedpur tomcat10
Control Field Layering:
Abhik Bangalore saha80*
Abhinav Bangalore linkedIN*
Adhithya Bangalore XADHIX
Aishwarya Bangalore Ashae9
Akhil Bangalore ripthejacker
Akshay Bangalore Ag3ntO07
Anshul Bangalore Hokanaka
ashik Bangalore atombomb
Ganesh Bangalore Imperator
Gopinath R Bangalore gopir1594
Jasmin Bangalore supjgeorge
Jayshree Bangalore cyanokeet
Jubin Bangalore BATMANslayer
Keerthan Bangalore Tsunami7*
Keshav Bangalore lifeofpai
Manjunath Bangalore MANDAR1N
Moumita Bangalore TheSigyn
Naveen Bangalore Alzh*
Omkar Bangalore Lead Toxin*
Prajwal Bangalore rpxtreme
Sam Bangalore MugavarS
Sharan Bangalore Vintageprotocol
Shivani Bangalore AshenLady
Deb Bangalore DebS
Tejus Bangalore TJKV*
Vaibhav Bangalore vaiyach
Vinay Bangalore BIGBOSS1
Abhinandan Delhi nandx64*
Ajmal Delhi AjmalAkhtar*
Akshat Delhi N3CROMANC3R*
Aravind Delhi ARKode*
Nikhil Delhi Diaeresis
Prashant Delhi PsychicGeneral*
Shashi Delhi 00sac00*
Shubhankar Delhi Psykidelix
Sumit Dey Delhi Dey21
Vatsal Delhi BoyWithNoName
Vikram Delhi GeneralVik*
Vivek Delhi WanderingLord
Abhishek Hyderabad livingarmor*
Nikhil Hyderabad ingr33n
Salman Hyderabad SammySheraz
Suresh Hyderabad JVS85*
Tanishq Hyderabad d3mios
Ziaullah Hyderabad Dragon123
Arjun Jamshedpur tomcat10
Abhijeet Kolkata Raywyrm
Debabrata Kolkata y2k007
Pranav Kolkata Veektor28
Priyankar Kolkata anku90
Rashi Kolkata Crox21
Saptarshi Kolkata VajRahaTha
Shankar Kolkata pewpewpow*
Sidd Kolkata Illuminatus2
Subhadip Kolkata Firels
Swarnava Kolkata Swarnava
Fun Trivia:
- Once cities were finalised, there were 17 version of layering plans, the maximum being 112 layers and minimum being 89.
- Rourkela and Bangalore were the common anchor cities in both Op BudDhi and Op Buddha.
- The Harvesting of Rourkela keys was done by an L2 agent Anuj & happens to be the first set of keys to be farmed for the OP.
- The Op was supposed to happen long time back, but then artifact hit Delhi and agent burnout derailed it.
- Only one layer of the full set between, Coimbatore, Kolkata & Delhi, was done before checkpoint. We missed 2.5B MU before checkpoint due to that.
- Indigenously developed tools were used to describe, validate and confirm layering plans.
- Cross-link team accommodated many last day changes to help all the crosslinks to go down in one shot!
This field is straight Jedi level! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteNice work agents, truly astounding
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