INGRESS MAXFIELD
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Welcome to version 4.0 of Ingress Maxfield. If this is your first time using this tool, please read the Instructions below. If you have questions or suggestions, visit our subreddit or contact me!
This version (v4.0) is a nearly complete re-write of the original Maxfield code (based originally off of work by J. Peter Baker), which brings Maxfield into the future with Python 3, fixes many bugs, and improves the algorithm dramatically. Previous users of Maxfield will notice that plans are now much more efficient in that they require fewer keys from any individual portal, and the link order is more sensible for multi-agent operations. As before, the version of Ingress Maxfield on this website is limited by computation resources, so you are limited to 100 portals in your plan, and you might not get the best plan for your portal list. If you are unsatisfied with your plan, re-run Maxfield again, or download the code and run it locally.
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This version (v4.0) is a nearly complete re-write of the original Maxfield code (based originally off of work by J. Peter Baker), which brings Maxfield into the future with Python 3, fixes many bugs, and improves the algorithm dramatically. Previous users of Maxfield will notice that plans are now much more efficient in that they require fewer keys from any individual portal, and the link order is more sensible for multi-agent operations. As before, the version of Ingress Maxfield on this website is limited by computation resources, so you are limited to 100 portals in your plan, and you might not get the best plan for your portal list. If you are unsatisfied with your plan, re-run Maxfield again, or download the code and run it locally.
To receive infrequent email updates, sign up for our mailing list here!
Ingress Maxfield is an Ingress linking and fielding strategy generator. Given a list of portals, Maxfield will determine the optimal order to link the portals to create the most fields and earn the most AP whilst walking the least. The script uses the same strategy as outlined in this Youtube video. The backend for this website is a Python program written by J. Peter Baker which you can find on his Github repository. I have completely re-written the program, which is used on this website or you can download on my Github repository.
Ingress Maxfield does NOT violate the Ingress/Niantic Terms of Service. This application simply uses the positions of portals, extracted from the portal URL copied by the user from the Intel website, to generate a linking and fielding plan.
Since this website is used by many people, the version of Ingress Maxfield is setup to generate plans quickly, but they will not be "ideal". Therefore, you will likely get a different plan each time you submit the same portal list. Your portal list must also contain fewer than 100 portals. If you are unsatisfied with your plan, re-submit your portal list or download the code and run it locally.
Ingress Maxfield does NOT violate the Ingress/Niantic Terms of Service. This application simply uses the positions of portals, extracted from the portal URL copied by the user from the Intel website, to generate a linking and fielding plan.
Since this website is used by many people, the version of Ingress Maxfield is setup to generate plans quickly, but they will not be "ideal". Therefore, you will likely get a different plan each time you submit the same portal list. Your portal list must also contain fewer than 100 portals. If you are unsatisfied with your plan, re-submit your portal list or download the code and run it locally.
How to use this website:
- Determine the number of agents you will be working with as well as which portals will be included in the operation. On this website, you must have fewer than 100 portals in your list.
- You will need some information about the portals you want to include in this operation: 1) the portal name, 2) the Intel map link for this portal (see below for instructions on getting this), 3) (optional) the number of keys your teams has for this portal, and 4) (optional) SBUL if the portal is fully-deployed with SoftBank Ultra Links.
- In a plain text document (i.e. not a Microsoft Word document - use a basic text editor such as Notepad), create a list of the portals. The format of this list must be:
Portal name; Intel map link; (Optional) Number of keys your team has for this portal; (optional) SBULFor example:Confederate Cemetery; https://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=38.033438,-78.513349&z=17&pll=38.036267,-78.513897; 3; SBUL - Note: be sure to remove all ";" and "#" symbols from your portal names. These symbols are reserved for Maxfield, and your portal list will be incorrectly parsed if these symbols exist in the portal names!
- Fill out the form at the bottom of this page. You may upload your list or copy it in to the text area.
Note: if you upload your portal list, it must be in plain text format (NOT a Microsoft Word .doc). - If you would like to receive an email when your request is processed, enter your email address in the form below.
- When you push submit, your request will be processed. It may take several minutes to generate your plan.
- Locate a portal on the Intel map
- Click on the portal. This will open the portal information frame.
- Click on the "Link" button (
) in the upper-right of the Intel map. - Copy the map link and paste it into your portal list.
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5 Feb 2020 - v4.0
This is a complete re-write of the original Maxfield code! There are too many changes to list, but I hope you find that the plans are better and the output is nicer! The website has also been re-written and improved. If you find any problems, please contact me!
8 Mar 2016 - v3.1
This is a complete re-write of the original Maxfield code! There are too many changes to list, but I hope you find that the plans are better and the output is nicer! The website has also been re-written and improved. If you find any problems, please contact me!
8 Mar 2016 - v3.1
- Maxfield - added option to NOT generate link-by-link plots.
- Maxfield - added logging file.
- Maxfield - added timeout option.
- Website - removed link-by-link plots
- Website - added runtime predictions for plan and current queue
- Website - added timeout of 1200 seconds (20 minutes)
- Website - increased plan storage time to 48 hours
- Website - Moved to a new, faster server
- Maxfield - New algorithm now longer requires 50 portal limit.
- Maxfield - New algorithm minimizes walking distances.
- Maxfield - New SoftBank Link Amp option
- Maxfield - Select color scheme
- Maxfield - Order of keys, URL, SBLA in portal list does not matter
- Maxfield - Fixed poor formatting in link csv file
- Website - Select color scheme
- Website - Removed 50 portal limit
- Website - Added link to mailing list sign-up
- Website - Added mailing list
- Fix bug in Maxfield which incorrectly calculates the locations of portals on the Google map. Added Mercator projection calculations.
- Fix bug in inotify where a script was spawning dozens of inotify processes and crashing the server.
- Fix bug in Maxfield where portals whose name was a number were not being input properly. Portal list is now forced to string type.
- Fixed a bug where some output from Maxfield was not included in the output.txt file.
- Fixed a bug where the website was displaying the csv contents in the Key and Link assignments tab
- General cleaning of website code.
- Option to download key and link assignments as CSV added.
- Fixed a bug where the number of keys would cause a problem if preceeded by any white space
- Perform a syntax check on the portal list before submitting job
- Maxfield - fixed optimization bug. Maxfield wasn't doing any optimization if you didn't supply any keys. Now it will do proper optimization if you don't supply any keys.
- Maxfield - Increased number of optimization attempts to 50
- Maxfield - Changed portal list delimiter to a semi-colon since many portals have commas in their name now.
- Maxfield - Allowed comments and blank lines in portal list
- Maxfield - Enforced 50 portal limit to prevent server bogs
- Maxfield - Implemented a Google Maps API on maps
- Maxfield - Changed some plot colors to look nicer
- Maxfield - Added UTF-8 support for international characters
- Website - Added queuing system for job processing
- Website - Added email notification on job completion
- Website - Added nice message behind ad for Adblockers
- Website - Updated contact email address
- Website - Increased data time limit to 3 hours
- Updated website look and feel
- Added option for portal list submission through text area
- Portal list file no longer has to have .csv extension
- Portal list file may contain spaces now
- Fixed ordering of images on link-by-link instructions and field depth info
Jobs in queue: 0. Estimated wait time: 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds.
Total jobs processed (since v4.0): 29,336. Total jobs processed (all time): 161,887.
Total jobs processed (since v4.0): 29,336. Total jobs processed (all time): 161,887.