Joe Philley - G+ Profile Archive

Operation: Do it Live It was Saturday, November 1st when Niantic dropped the bomb.  We were a connected cell for the Darsana anomaly.  Oh, and the cycle starts tomorrow.  Get to it!  There was a flurry of activity amongst the field team.  With no real time to key farm we had to go with what we had in our existing inventory.  Ideas started to fly.  Fields were either too small (not enough MU) or too big (too complicated to put together so quickly).  Then I opened a capsule I had all but forgotten about, a field in a box put together by Dnaltrop.  It was perfect.  But when to throw?  Certainly we need some time to plan this thing, right?  Cue agent LightAxe “$@%# it, we’ll do it live!”.  So the throw time was set for 11PM Sunday, roughly 36 hours from inception.  And that’s when things got real blurry.   In what seemed like the blink of an eye lines were drawn, keys were distributed, agents were pinged, lanes were cleared, and sleep was missed.  The mood was frantic but optimistic and ev...

Outstanding work ladies. Originally shared by Jen Southan Operation: Big Damn Heroes Sunday May 25, 2014 Agent MutagenXX Cari Buchner and I had the idea to create a mega field that was female planned and operated.  We were starting fresh with no keys, just the intel map.  After mapping out an idea, we set out to get keys.  We reached out to total strangers who proved to not only be willing but were excited to be involved in something bigger than their own community.  The first sign that mega fields know no gender and take a full community effort is when trying to move keys across multiple states and internationally.  Planes, cars, truck drivers, key swap snafus at farms and beergress, and we finally got all of our keys in place.  This op absolutely would have never happened without the help and patience of all the key movers, people we can refer to as “big damn heroes”: Cozma15 Chloe Collins, Fergilicious Karen Ferguson, Nowemapa Bill Stanley, ruggednw rugged nw, SnowXTC, ShapedRock Ru...