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Re: Blue event badges are discouraging to Enlightened players
I did however, like getting the purple badge, because, purple. Lol
Blue event badges are discouraging to Enlightened players
While the current Aurora challenge, also known as the recycling challenge, is disliked by many players, there's an added disincentive for Enlightened players -- I've seen at least 10 players in various chats who said that they stopped shortly after getting the bronze badge because they didn't want to risk getting stuck with a blue achievement badge on their profile.
Can someone from Niantic explain why there is so much blue on the profiles of Enlightened players?
It's frustrating to have to explain to curious family members that yes, I'm still on the Green team even though all my stats are shown in blue. "So the game is designed to encourage more Blue players?" -- direct quote from my sibling.
Morganza
Re: Blue event badges are discouraging to Enlightened players
Yeah, there should NEVER be badges in blue or green unless they are going to be specifically awarded to a faction. FULL STOP.
Re: Minimum Portal Reviewers
niantic has never given an exact number, so nobody really knows
in pogo they still have submissions in beta...which i dont know what they are testing at this point other than peoples patience..so they will need first to open the submissions to all places before letting pogo accts join opr although a lot of pogo players do opr at this point because they created ingress accts for do it but not everybody wants to create an acct in other game which they dont care just for work for free
Josmanu
Recharging portals in prime broken
When recharging portals in prime I often an unable to beat the player. It often goes from fully recharged to blank portal with a Long pause between when I see a fully recharged portal. This is extreamly anoying considering that I mostly play by walking ord biking and many of my oponents drive. So when I try to defend what I havet built Up, they can tear down 10 hours work in less than One 😡
ErtikT
Re: I was wrong about the Aurora Challenge.
Bronze was resasonable ok.
But the higher levels were very hard, especially if you don't have many portals.
I was on holiday and all the nearby towns had max 50 portals each.
For a chance at gold I'd have had to driven to a city (around 100km away) and even then not sure a single day would have been enough, given that many portals were already green high level.
This was the huge difference with the myriad challenge, for that I drove 100km to get my last 250 for gold once I ran out in my home town but the level didn't matter so I knew it would be okay.
Maybe really pushing it I could have got silver but I didn't want a blue badge anyway (Niantic should really avoid faction colours for challenges).
With 2 days to go we're still only half way to the global objective which is enough to show that this event is a failure for most agents.
I know very few who have done better than bronze and most of them are just thankful it is over.
Myriad was a nice occasion to move a bit and visit new places. This was just pure grind.
entron
Re: Updates on Ingress Store
What about the 6th key locker that was part of the 5th year anniversary? I'm sure there are quite a few that missed it or started after it was distributed. Of course I don't know how the servers work, but I'd imagine it should be quick and easy to implement, as the code for it is already there on both Prime and Redacted. No one should have something against it, new players get a 6th key locker (which is requested a lot btw) and the ones that got the anniversary pack had luck and didn't need to pay for it.
Re: Updates on Ingress Store
I used to buy frakkers for our meet ups and all. But 4 euros a frakker thats a no-no. Ill buy me a beer instead. You went too far guys.
aakao
Re: Would you like daily streaks?
I actually prefer daily streaks that reset every week over an endless daily streak as the former can bring gameplay rewards for staying active without bringing the downsides of the latter. I don't mind losing a weekly streak but losing something that you worked on for 3 years is always rough. I don't like endless streaks and what they represent because I hate the feeling of "having" to play a game and everyday "having" to remember if I hacked a portal or not. What if I'm at home sick? What if I go on vacation to a place with no portals? That's why the best thing I did was let my Ingress streak die. It was taking the fun out of the game for me. Now I just play whenever I want and I enjoy Ingress a lot more.