Interesting read! Ingress is an awesome game and I liked playing it 2 years ago. I discovered several interesting places in my area and partecipated in a germany-wide ops once.
But I stopped playing after I got stopped in my car by the local police at 2 am in my little town when attacking a portal ( I always parked correctly in public parking lanes/spots) and after people looked at me when walking crazy with my phone in hand. I just don't want the people in my little town where I live and work to know that I play a game like ingress as an adult. :)
And also it got boring after a while driving to nearby towns playing ingress and just the next day all captured portals got re-capped and links destroyed. And it also became time consuming collecting XM and recharging portals on a regular basis.
But it was an interesting experience!
Are You a true ingress player? A true ingress player has been stopped by the police at least once... ;-)