Stats Enhancement

I'm not sure how useful attack stats broken down by faction would really be... Outgress usage probably will never be even for both factions in a certain area (it tends to be one faction or the other primarily using it). Maybe down the road if Outgress really ends up with a high percentage of agents using it across the board. Then maybe it could be somewhat useful (you could see what faction is attacking more for example). But with such a low sampling rate in the grand scheme of things right now, all it would really show would be an inverse chart of the existing one showing agents discovered by faction. Currently, if you have more Resistance agent discoveries it's because more Enlightened are feeding data and therefore we are seeing more Resistance attacks. We'll see later when there are more users.

Cell info isn't directly in the damage report... although if you absolutely had to, you could calculate the region based on the longitude and latitude of the attack and place it within the appropriate cell. It's not a big secret how Ingress regions are broken up (it's done via Google's S2 Library). But to be honest, the calculations required to do that on the fly are way too expensive computational-wise... so you would realistically end up needing to store the Ingress region on a per attack basis (calculate it once as the attack happens). For now, I'm gonna say "no" to this... it's such a massive amount of extra data storage (storing the region the attack happened in) for millions of attacks gets to be a lot of backend resources that could be better used for something else.

There's also the other issue that I have no clue whatsoever how to *do* S2 region calculations. lol If I ever dive into the S2 geometry stuff for something else, I'll loop back and revisit on this.

 

Nah... Agents are discovered by attacking and if you are the forwarding agent... So no, it doesn't discover new agents that have gear deployed but aren't forwarding email damage reports.